Independent Studio: Ceramics
Registration
Kara Highfield
Mondays, January 11 – March 29, 2021
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Time and space are necessary to create your dream project; this independent workshop will provide both and allow your skills to grow.
This workshop will be self-directed with an Instructor on site to help guide participants and to offer advice. Participants who wish to use the throwing wheels should have past wheel experience.
We encourage participants to join in our School’s biennial fundraiser, ‘Ramp It Up!’, in May, 2021, by creating and donating bowls. This event is in support of our important community organization, Second Story Women’s Centre.
Please Note: No class will be held on Monday, March 15 (March Break). This class consists of 10 full working sessions with a pick up day on the 11th session (March 29, 1:00p.m. – 2:00p.m.).
Materials Provided.
Students should bring:
- Apron
- Hand towel
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.
Kara Highfield
Kara Highfield is a Ceramics Artist living on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2013) from NSCAD University with a major in Ceramics and a minor in Art History.
Kara’s resent solo exhibition, Align (2018), was a culmination of an 8 month Artist-in-Residence at the Lunenburg School of the Arts. The show explored decoration as object through ceramic surface and fine-layered paper sculpture. Kara was awarded a Creation Grant from Arts Nova Scotia to complete this project. Kara has exhibited her work across Canada, most recently at Medalta International Exhibition, Dish, celebrating what ceramics brings to the table (2017-2018), juried by Julia Galloway, MFA, professor at the University of Montana.
Kara’s work has been collected and exhibited by the Art Bank of Nova Scotia (2019) and published in The Crafted Dish, a book highlighting Canadian ceramics published in partnership with National Clay Week (2017). She is an alumni of the year-long NSCAD – Lunenburg Community Studio Residency Program (2013-2014).
Kara has been an instructor in ceramics at Lunenburg School of the Arts since 2016.
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.