(Image courtesy of SUNY New Paltz’s Instagram feed, @newpaltzceramics.)

In this workshop, gwendolyn yoppolo will talk about how you can develop a unique voice in your artwork by bringing your aesthetic goals into alignment with the materials, processes, forms, and surfaces that you manifest in your artwork.  Learn how to develop a material vocabulary of form, color and surface that can evoke emotion, deliver poetic metaphor, make connections to cultural histories, and resonate sentiment. 

Sharing her sculptural approach to making utilitarian ceramic objects, yoppolo will demonstrate an eclectic mix of pinching, coiling, throwing and altering, and molding techniques.Special attention will be given to the development of color and surface qualities through creative glaze chemistry experiments that are grounded in scientific methodology but driven by our artistic intuition.We will unify form and surface as we generate dialogue, drawings, and writing to clarify the concepts behind our artwork.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

9 am - 5 pm