Buttering Up Your Throwing Skills

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Marla Benton
Mondays & Wednesdays, October 31 – November 28, 2022
9:30am – 1:00pm

This workshop will focus on functional thrown forms using the potter’s wheel and stoneware clay. We will explore more complex thrown pieces, as well as assembling multiple forms together. Who knows?! You might even make your own butter dish!

Discussions and demonstrations will help guide you. Different surface design techniques and glazing will be explored. It is recommended that students have some previous wheel throwing/clay experience, however, all levels of experience are welcome

This workshop is eight (3.5 hour) working sessions, twice a week, plus a one-hour pick up day.

Students should bring:

  • Apron
  • Water bottle
  • Note book
  • Pen/pencil
  • Old towel
  • Any personal tools you might want to bring (we suggest you label them)

Bookings

Registrations for this workshop are now closed.

Marla Benton

Marla Benton is a ceramic artist and educator living and working in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Benton has balanced working in her studio and teaching ceramic workshops. Both Benton’s gallery work and installation art encourage personal connection through text and surprising elements that challenge expectations, evoke curiosity, and encourage interactions and participation.

Originally from small town Ontario, she attended the Ontario College of Art & Design, where she found clay her preferred medium. After transferring to the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Benton completed her degree with a major in ceramics. Later, she earned her second degree from Nipissing University (BED).

Benton’s work has been published/exhibited in Canada and the USA.  She has received Creation Grants from Arts NS, ArtsSmarts Grants from the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and participated in Artist Residencies.

Bookings

Registrations for this workshop are now closed.