Hand-building a Narrative Teapot
Registration
Teresa Bergen
Tuesdays, October 12 – December 7, 2021
9:30am – 1:00pm
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The teapot provides endless possibilities for form and expression. This eight weeks stoneware workshop will be an opportunity to create your own narrative teapot or vessel.
We will spend five weeks working to hand-build a pot using slabs, coils and pinching techniques, then create fanciful functional spouts, lids that stay put, and handles that complement the form. Three weeks will be spent decorating.
Come to the class with some thoughts on a story you would like to tell. It can be something from life, a myth, a fiction or anything that captures your imagination.
This workshop is eight (3.5 hour) working sessions, plus a one-hour pick up day.
Student should bring:
- Apron
- Hand towel
- Story ideas/inspiration
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.
Teresa Bergen
Teresa Bergen Teresa Bergen is a maker of ceramic sculpture, clay machines, and sometimes puppeteer based out of Chester, NS. Her formal art studies began at Langara College in Vancouver and completed with a BFA at NSCAD University, Halifax. After cycling and hiking to Dawson City Yukon for a Residency at Klondike Institute of Art and Culture she built a kiln and started a ceramics business on a rock pile outside of town. The adventure continues across the country in her lively home studio where she maintains a full time ceramic practice and teaches workshops surrounded by her three children, a banjo picking husband and a fluctuating flock of chickens.
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.