First Days of Penland Spring Concentration
If you are preparing for any gathering you always seem to have a list of things to do to get ready. Expecting lots of people coming to your facility for classes is no different at all. Our first days as Studio Assistants and work study students was filled with prep work. We cleaned the studios, moved the tables and potters wheels. Loaded the dump truck with scrap wood for a wood firing class in the summer.
Classes started on Monday night and the assignment was to make mugs. All the students in the class have experience with clay so they could start the assignment before Cynthia Bringle (the instructor) gave any demos.
The reason for this assignment is so that people are more likely to use hand crafted mugs for coffee and tea rather than the disposable ones. Pottery is more environmentally friendly. We will have a sale via lottery so the other students can participate in that portion of sustainable living.
Cynthia did demonstrate how to pull a handle off the side of a mug. That is not how I normally make my handles and the change is difficult for me but I’ll keep trying.
Check out the gallery page - Future Relics Gallery by Lori Buff
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Classes started on Monday night and the assignment was to make mugs. All the students in the class have experience with clay so they could start the assignment before Cynthia Bringle (the instructor) gave any demos.
The reason for this assignment is so that people are more likely to use hand crafted mugs for coffee and tea rather than the disposable ones. Pottery is more environmentally friendly. We will have a sale via lottery so the other students can participate in that portion of sustainable living.
Cynthia did demonstrate how to pull a handle off the side of a mug. That is not how I normally make my handles and the change is difficult for me but I’ll keep trying.
Check out the gallery page - Future Relics Gallery by Lori Buff
Great to see you can still blog. Enjoy your Penland experience to the max!
ReplyDeleteThanks Barbara, I'll post as often as I can, maybe I can even post some tips I learn.
DeleteIt's good to learn new ways I think, something good always come of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree Linda.
DeleteYou will be working hard but in exchange, learning lots! What a great experience.
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