Gaya CAC 2015 WORKSHOP schedule

2015 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 



WEAVING IN CLAY & SMOKE: Exploring Surface in Raku 
with  CANDONE WHARTON
February 15-28, 2015 
Drawing upon the immeasurable breadth of exquisite textile tradition and intricate crafts work to be found in Bali, this workshop will weave together inspiration and technique in a focus on surface possibilities in clay.  After visiting a wide range of the finest craft experts-- from batik dyers to ikat weavers, wood carvers to silver smiths, and more-- participants will develop individual projects in direct response to the vast textural stimuli at hand.



SPIRIT OF FIRE: Soul of the Anagama
with GYAN DANIEL WALL & HILLARY KANE
April 5 - 18, 2015
Delighting in the element of serendipity and spontaneous beauty, this workshop will explore the natural glaze effects of atmospheric wood-firing in Gaya Ceramic Arts Center’s anagama (a small Japanese-style wood-fired kiln). Kiln-builder, Gyan Wall, together with in-house wood-firer, Hillary Kane, will lead this “Ceremony of Fire”, sharing their collective technical knowledge of the anagama, as well as their more personal spiritual experiences of wood-firing. It will truly be not only a ceramics workshop, but a transformative journey for clay pots and participants alike.



DEMYSTIFYING FORM: Clay Play and the Teapot 
with  FONG CHOO
May 24 - June 6, 2015 
The study of form has always been a core interest in Fong Choo’s career as a studio potter. For nearly 20 years he has focused - consciously and meticulously - on a single form: the teapot. At this workshop each participant will focus on their own personal study of form. Participants will develop a perspective on proportions from large to small, while the nature of “play” will always be in the foreground. Throughout the workshop there will be demos on types of bowls, mugs, lidded forms, vessels, etc... and then how each facet of the piece is formed, along with discussions on how the many facets of making can be aggregated into an aesthetically pleasing whole. 




EAST MEETS WEST: My Approach to Clay
with MITSUO SHOJI
August 9 - 22, 2015
After 48 years of experience working as a ceramic artist in both Japan and Australia, Mistuo Shoji truly represents a master in technique, concept, and understanding of the dynamic confluence of eastern and western perspectives in clay. Revealing his
synthesis of cultures, Shoji-sensei will share his personal construction methods in hand-building and surface treatment, while also demonstrating his comprehensive knowledge of traditional Japanese-style slab-building and wheel-throwing, brush work, slip work  and  color inlay. Participants will be tutored in simple Raku Kiln construction, as well as experience  a  traditional  Japanese  black-firing technique to obtain a beautiful dense black color burnished surface of clay.




THE STORY BEHIND THE SURFACE
with  JANET DEBOOS
October 4 - 17, 2015 
Join renowned ceramicist and educator, Janet DeBoos, in this two week exploration of the surface of simple forms. Working at all stages of making from wet clay, through leather-hard and dry clay, to bisque and over-glaze techniques including decal use, china painting and enamels, De Boos will lead participants to focus on how to 'see' where to place decorations and how to plan and utilize different surface treatments on a  single  piece. Decoration will require participants to explore  the  imagery  and iconography of their own places and cultures as well as local material gathered during the workshop.  There will be discussion of pattern development and how judicious use of decoration can enhance formal aspects, as well as create the plot, the crescendo and the conclusion of the "story" of each piece.



CULINARY CLAY: Food & Design
with  HILLARY KANE & MARY JANE EDLESON
November 1 - 14, 2015
Returning for it’s third incarnation, this is a remarkable workshop for any clay-lover with a specific interest in the intimate relationship between food and the vessel in which it is presented. Formal design considerations of shape, texture, color and scale will be explored in direct relation to specific unusual gastronomic selections. Participants will work closely with ceramic instructor and visiting culinary expert, creating utilitarian pieces as well as sampling and preparing the exquisite recipes that will be served upon them. The two-week workshop will culminate, appropriately, in a feast of the senses.




FINDING CENTER: YOGA & CLAY
with  HILLARY KANE, EMILY KUSER & JANUR YASA
November 22 - December 2, 2015
In this intensive ten-day workshop ceramicist-yogi, Hillary Kane (Gaya CAC), Emily Kuser (Yoga Instructor) and Janur Yasa (Somatic Coach)-will lead a dynamic introduction to the art of finding one's center through the sensuous medium of clay and the balancing counterpoint of yoga. While focusing on the essential technical basics of throwing on the potter's wheel and hand-building in clay, participants will equally concentrate on the mental and physical relationship of clay to whole-body awareness through daily practice of yoga and meditation. Throughout the week and a half, we will channel the artist within via all the five elements, accessing our own bodies through the clay body.


Please contact GAYA CERAMIC ARTS CENTER directly for more information:

gayacac@gayaceramic.com

+62(0)361-8989515


DECEMBER 7 - 13, 2014 THE FIGURE AS A VESSEL with Ryan Mitchell


DECEMBER 7 - 13, 2014   |   THE FIGURE AS A VESSEL
with Ryan Mitchell

Students will explore personal narratives and concepts through sculptural figuration . Referencing memories, life experiences and applying inspiration by the culture and surroundings of Bali, participants will be supported to achieve their vision using the principles of sculpture . A wide range of techniques and approaches used by the diverse array of figurative artists will be introduced to expand participants ability and potential in clay.Ryan will demonstrate a variety of hand-building methods including coil, slab, solid construction and press molded techniques. Material information will be provided to increase technical knowledge of ceramic construction before, during and after the firing process. The workshop will explore the various aesthetic and conceptual approaches to expression that clay offers to construct sculpture at both large and intimate scaled work. Information on a variety of clay, glaze and surface treatments will covered. 


Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $ 950
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**Accommodation not included.

email: gayacac@gayaceramic.com


SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 4, 2014 ANAGAMA WOOD FIRING with Barbara Campbell-Allen & Hillary Kane

SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 4, 2014 ANAGAMA WOOD FIRING
with Barbara Campbell-Allen & Hillary Kane

Delighting in the element of serendipity and spontaneous beauty, this workshop will explore the kiss of flame and the natural glaze effects of atmospheric wood-firing in Gaya CAC’s anagama (Japanese-style wood kiln) with visiting wood-fire specialist, Barbara Campbell-Allen (Australia) and in-house wood-firer, Hillary Kane. 
Participants will experiment with the variables of clay bodies and flashing slips, surface texture and vessel shape as design factors influencing the subtle and dramatic effects of a natural ash surface. 
An intensive two-weeks: work will be produced in the studio, loaded, fired for 2 ½ days of stoking, and then unloaded after cooling for the work of the flame to be revealed and displayed. Evenings will be punctuated with slides and films on wood-fire.

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**Accommodation not included.

ONLY A COUPLE OF SEATS LEFT!!!

email: gayacac@gayaceramic.com


POSTPONED: BEYOND THROWING with Janet DeBoos -for 2015

OCTOBER 5 -18, 2014 BEYOND THROWING
with Janet DeBoos

Join renowned ceramicist and educator, Janet DeBoos, in this two week wheel-based pottery workshop that will examine the potential of using the wheel as a basic tool to provide form for manipulation and decoration. The ‘centered’ character of wheel formed pottery will be highlighted, and subverted through cutting/joining and deforming at different stages of drying to make hybrid forms that are neither completely hand built, nor completely thrown.
Decoration will be through use of underglaze colors and slips, and will require participants to explore the imagery and iconography of their own places and cultures as well as local material gathered during the workshop. There will be discussion of pattern development and how judicious use of decoration can enhance formal aspects.
The outcome will be pottery, with the potential for use, but in arriving at that complex point, function may need to be relegated to the ‘back burner’ during formal experimentation. This allows for a more rigorous analysis of form. The restoration of function will then require examination of what constitutes function, and how more sculptural forms can be made to function without loss of their distinct characteristics. The general thrust of investigations will be towards a kind of hybridity, arrived at by exploring ‘the other’. Each day will commence with a talk or a demonstration, followed by participants working with supervision, and each day will end with a critique of that which was produced during the day and an outline of the next day’s projects.

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**Accommodation not included.

email: gayacac@gayaceramic.com



AUGUST 17 - 23, 2014 PORCELAIN JEWELRY with Olivia Monti

AUGUST 17 - 23, 2014 PORCELAIN JEWELRY
with Olivia Monti

Fuel your imagination and create unique ceramic jewelery in a setting of unsurpassed tropical beauty, amid artisans of world-renowned skill. Porcelain sculpture and jewelry artist, Olivia Monti Arduini, will guide participants in experimenting with a myriad of different techniques. From use of molds, pigments, paper-clay, slipcasting, inlay, neriage, burnishing, glazes, Olivia will demonstrate infusing clay with one's personal touch to create a wearable work of art.
Participants will be ushered through all the steps of making porcelain jewelry component parts.  The conclusion of the workshop will be in the assemblage: stringing, wiring, or otherwise combining pieces to create finished jewels.
And then, of course, the fashion show…
Open to any level of experience.

Tuition: US$ 950

*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**Accommodation not included.
***Jewelry tool kit additional (separate) fee

email: gayacac@gayaceramic.com


Gaya CAC 2014 workshop schedule


2014 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 


Already promising to be an outstanding year... the calendar in preview.... 



     MARCH: Naked Raku     |     APRIL: Terra Sigilatta     |     MAY: Altered Forms    |      AUGUST : Porcelain Jewelry



SEPTEMBER: Wood firing     |     OCTOBER: Beyond Throwing     |     DECEMBER: Figurative Sculpture 







MARCH 9 - 22, 2014 NAKED
with Marcello Massoni, Michela Foppiani & Hillary Kane

A Raku workshop with Gaya Ceramic's finest in-house instructors
Seductively shimmering surfaces, burnished to a soft sheen as satin as skin... Naked Raku. Technically more complex in possibilities than meets the eye, this two week focus study will endeavor to unveil the mysteries, and thoroughly explore the length and breadth of Naked Raku. From finding suitable forms hand-built or wheel thrown, to burnishing, applying resistant slip, patterning surfaces in the simplest or the most intricate detail, smoking, and polishing-- each participant will become a budding expert in every nuance of practical knowledge, enough to commence an exploration of a lifetime. Gaya Ceramic's vast archive of Naked Raku production samples will enhance and inspire everyone's palette of possibilities...

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation




APRIL 13-26, 2014 
Local Earth: Terrasigillata and Tropical Natural Ash glazes 
with Walter Auer

In this two-week immersion, ceramic sculptor, Walter Auer, will lead participants in an exploration of Bali's natural resources in relationship to clay. Emphasis will be on experimentation with local materials to develop various terra sigillatas, glaze possibilities, and textured surfaces, culminating in the dramatic experience of a mid-range tropical wood-firing in Gaya's unique updraft, double-walled "Bottle" kiln. The clay experience will of course be complemented by its conjunction with select memorable moments of cultural and gastronomic inspiration.
Tutor Walter Auer studied ceramics at the State Institute of Art, Faenza, Italy, graduating in 1987 with an Advanced Diploma in Ceramics. He learned traditional wheel forming in Avanos, Turkey and then studied in Miyama, Japan with Chin Jukan. Walter then set up a ceramic training centre in Eritrea, before settling in Sydney in 1997. Since 2002, he has been teaching ceramics at Northern Beaches and in various other TAFE Colleges. His sculptural ceramics have been exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea 2005, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2005, Hyperclay: Contemporary Ceramics (still touring ) Enucleo: Contemporary Clay and in many national and international solo and group shows. He comes extremely highly recommended as an excellent workshop leader. 

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation




MAY 4-17, 2014 ALTERED FORM 
with Deborah Schwartzkopf

Create expressive, functional forms with clay. Deborah Schwartzkopf will share construction techniques combining altered, wheel thrown and molded, slab built parts. Both those fluent in wheel throwing and hand building will benefit from blending these processes in this hands-on intensive.
Sketching, image presentations, and forays into the Balinese landscape will help us cultivate design ideas. Simple pattern and mold making will augment our exploration into non-round shapes. Join this playful excursion and explore innovative ways of making functional pots with clay.

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation




AUGUST 17 - 23, 2014 PORCELAIN JEWELRY
with Olivia Monti

Fuel your imagination and create unique ceramic jewelery in a setting of unsurpassed tropical beauty, amid artisans of world-renowned skill. Porcelain sculpture and jewelry artist, Olivia Monti Arduini, will guide participants in experimenting with a myriad of different techniques. From use of molds, pigments, paper-clay, slipcasting, inlay, neriage, burnishing, glazes, Olivia will demonstrate infusing clay with one's personal touch to create a wearable work of art.
Participants will be ushered through all the steps of making porcelain jewelry component parts.  The conclusion of the workshop will be in the assemblage: stringing, wiring, or otherwise combining pieces to create finished jewels.
And then, of course, the fashion show…
Open to any level of experience.

Tuition: US$ 950
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT included accommodation.
***Jewelry tool kit additional (separate) fee




SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 4, 2014 ANAGAMA WOOD FIRING
with Barbara Campbell-Allen & Hillary Kane

Delighting in the element of serendipity and spontaneous beauty, this workshop will explore the kiss of flame and the natural glaze effects of atmospheric wood-firing in Gaya CAC’s anagama (Japanese-style wood kiln) with visiting wood-fire specialist, Barbara Campbell-Allen (Australia) and in-house wood-firer, Hillary Kane.
Participants will experiment with the variables of clay bodies and flashing slips, surface texture and vessel shape as design factors influencing the subtle and dramatic effects of a natural ash surface.
An intensive two-weeks: work will be produced in the studio, loaded, fired for 2 ½ days of stoking, and then unloaded after cooling for the work of the flame to be revealed and displayed. Evenings will be punctuated with slides and films on wood-fire.

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation



OCTOBER 5 -18, 2014 BEYOND THROWING
with Janet DeBoos

Join renowned ceramicist and educator, Janet DeBoos, in this two week wheel-based pottery workshop that will examine the potential of using the wheel as a basic tool to provide form for manipulation and decoration. The ‘centered’ character of wheel formed pottery will be highlighted, and subverted through cutting/joining and deforming at different stages of drying to make hybrid forms that are neither completely hand built, nor completely thrown.
Decoration will be through use of underglaze colors and slips, and will require participants to explore the imagery and iconography of their own places and cultures as well as local material gathered during the workshop. There will be discussion of pattern development and how judicious use of decoration can enhance formal aspects.
The outcome will be pottery, with the potential for use, but in arriving at that complex point, function may need to be relegated to the ‘back burner’ during formal experimentation. This allows for a more rigorous analysis of form. The restoration of function will then require examination of what constitutes function, and how more sculptural forms can be made to function without loss of their distinct characteristics. The general thrust of investigations will be towards a kind of hybridity, arrived at by exploring ‘the other’. Each day will commence with a talk or a demonstration, followed by participants working with supervision, and each day will end with a critique of that which was produced during the day and an outline of the next day’s projects.

Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation



NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 13, 2014
THE FIGURE AS A VESSEL
with Ryan Mitchell


Students will explore personal narratives and concepts through sculptural figuration . Referencing memories, life experiences and applying inspiration by the culture and surroundings of Bali, participants will be supported to achieve their vision using the principles of sculpture . A wide range of techniques and approaches used by the diverse array of figurative artists will be introduced to expand participants ability and potential in clay.Ryan will demonstrate a variety of hand-building methods including coil, slab, solid construction and press molded techniques. Material information will be provided to increase technical knowledge of ceramic construction before, during and after the firing process. The workshop will explore the various aesthetic and conceptual approaches to expression that clay offers to construct sculpture at both large and intimate scaled work. Information on a variety of clay, glaze and surface treatments will covered. 


Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation


For more information, contact gayacac@gayaceramic.com

MAY 4-17, 2014 ALTERED FORM with Deborah Schwartzkopf

Through play and investigation we will unlock creativity! All levels welcome! Both those interested in the wheel throwing and hand building will benefit from building their toolbox of techniques ... 


Contact gayacac@gayaceramic.com

NAKED

NAKED (Raku, that is...), brought to you by all the finest of Gaya Ceramic in-house instructors, March 9-22, 2014. This workshop will be an amazing opportunity to really dive deep into the technical intricacies and detailed finesse of the best of Naked Raku. email: gayacac@gayaceramic.com




**REGISTRATION for WORKSHOPS

To register, contact Gaya CAC’s Project Coordinator, Grace Njio, directly: grace@gayaceramic.com

Registration will require 50% down-payment to reserve placement.

Balance is due four weeks prior to workshop start date

Payment can be made via bank transfer ONLY
(Gaya CAC will provide all necessary details for this uncomplicated transaction.)



CANCELLATION POLICIES

Our deposit and cancellation policies aim to protect all participants involved as well as the commitment of Gaya Studio and Arts Center as they make the considerable investment of time and energy necessary for the preparation of a workshop. 

Gaya CAC reserves right to cancel any workshop due to extremely low participation until four weeks prior to beginning of course.  However, GCAC always will make every effort to make every workshop run; and will inform all participants as soon as possible about any need to change program dates. 

Gaya Ceramic Arts Center cannot be responsible for procurement or losses incurred on travel arrangements.  **Please bear this in mind when booking flights, etc.

Individual participant cancellation will be refunded 50% of tuition payment up until four weeks prior to the beginning of the course.  Any participant cancellation after that will not be refunded tuition payment.