Live Porcelain Workshop with Tom Coleman (50% deposit)
Description: The Coleman School of Porcelain is located in Henderson, NV.
Professional Background: Tom Coleman has made a 50 plus year career out of his artwork in porcelain. From creating the most used porcelain body amongst hobby and professional potters (Coleman Porcelain), along with 3 published glaze books with numerous glaze formulas. These glazes are also used by potters around the world.
All About Porcelain takes place on the potters' wheel with Tom Coleman. This way, Tom will have a chance to work with each of you and your skills throwing porcelain on the potters' wheel. Porcelain isn't difficult, you just need to work with it differently than you work with stoneware or Bmix.
Porcelain: Just know, "real porcelain" is as close to working with glass as you can get without blowing glass. The higher the temp, the better the melt. If you've always loved the way Tom's glazes are on his body of work, learn how and why his glazes are so luminous directly from him.
Requirement to participate: Be able to center and pull a 6" cylinder from 2 lbs. in BMix, porcelain or a stoneware body. We don't expect you to be great at throwing porcelain to attend his workshop. But, we need to weed out the hand-builders who want to "learn how the throw" from Tom. Lol. Yes, this has happened before.
Images of your work: Send us images of your work when you get a chance. amykline692@gmail.com
Dates: June 9-11th. The class schedule from Friday - Sunday is 8:00 am-3:30 pm. On Saturday night of the workshop Tom and Elaine host a dinner party for the participants with a tour of their home and gallery. Tom takes us through his collection of ceramics, including his favorite potters' works. If you're coming from out of town we'll send you a list of places to stay nearby.
Note: The 50% deposit for this workshop is $625.00. A balance of $625.00 is due the week of the workshop.
This class includes 25# of Porcelain. We'll have coffee and something yummy cooked by Elaine in the mornings. We have a fridge for people to bring their lunch, or participants head out for lunch. We have sandwich shops nearby.
Special Note: You're welcome to bring more Coleman Porcelain with you if you'd like to throw larger work on the wheel while having instruction from Tom.
Any questions: Email us at amykline692@gmail.com