Workshops

Mark Shapiro - Functional Pots: Clearly Conceived

Friday-Monday, May 30-June 2    
10am-4pm, each day                  $300
All materials included.  Please bring a lunch.

The goal of this four-day, hands-on workshop will be to work toward a clear and personal pottery language that can be the basis of a coherent and expansive body of work. We will do this by examining our current work, asking questions of how to develop those pots, and explore a fuller menu of forms.

For example, how do we take a form that works for a cup and then apply it to a pitcher? How do we take what might be a great knob for a teapot lid and reconsider it for use on a large jar? With lively discussions, demonstrations, and plenty of time to work, this workshop with one of the country’s most sought-after workshop teachers is not to be missed.

Mark Shapiro is a studio potter who fires a woodburning kiln in Worthington, Massachusetts. He has taught many workshops, including ones at Penland and Haystack. He is represented by the Ferrin and Lacoste Galleries and his work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, the Newark Museum, the International Museum of Ceramic Art in Alfred, NY, and the Racine Art Museum.