UPCOMING:

Making with Master Potter Jack Troy

Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21, 2024 – 9:30am – 3:30pm (1-hr lunch break)
Chester Springs Studio, Ceramics Studio

Level: Intermediate
Limit: 10 students
Instructor: Jack Troy
Length: 2 Days
Date: Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21, 2024
Time: 9:30am – 3:30pm (1-hr lunch break)
Monday, April 22, Jack Troy’s Illustrated Talk, 7:00 PM. Free and open to the public.
Location: Chester Springs Studio, Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $275 Members, $300 Non-members

Join Master Potter, Teacher, and Writer Jack Troy in this 2-Day Hands on Workshop in Historic Yellow Springs. Class Members will use the potter’s wheel as a starting point and discover how intentional bottle forms can evolve into works that offer no clues as to how they began. Throw an arsenal of bottle shapes and progress into enclosed forms to alter in both gentle and more vigorous ways with simple tools and paddles. Gain sensitivity to clay’s willingness to change according to its soft and leather-hard states. Enclosed forms will be manipulated and paddled around their supporting air pocket into organic and geometric shapes that can be both sculptural and functional. Years ago, Troy was introduced to a distinctive clay object from the late artist David Shaner. An apple-sized, enclosed, hollow, ceramic object that rattles softly, creating a hidden “voice” that subtly changes as the center of gravity shifts within. Troy continues to explore these rattling forms, the Japanese name of which is “ishi no sasayaki” – “stone with secret voice.” The rattle is no “gimmick,” but enlivens the space within, creating an element of surprise for whoever picks it up. Sound unique to each piece that can only be experienced after firing. This lively class will be a memorable opportunity to engage our curiosity about the potential for what we feel confident in making – creating a more expansive, and original vocabulary than we had imagined.

Hands-on class members should confidently throw bottles 6″ and taller (intermediate level).

Participants are asked to bring a clay object they have lived with for at least several years that has a particular meaning to them they would like to share.

About Jack Troy

Jack Troy is a potter, teacher, and writer, from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he taught at Juniata College for 39 years. He has taught more than 260 workshops in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, and other countries, and has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; he was an Invited Artist at Japan’s Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park. His education in ceramics has included trips to 26 countries. Having published over 100 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Wood Fired Stoneware and Porcelain, as well as Calling the Planet Home, and Giving it up to the Wind [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, Auckland (NZ) Museum of Art, Kalamazoo (Michigan) Institute of Art and Alfred University. He received the 2012 NCECA (National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts) Excellence in Teaching Award, and gave the closing talk, “Anecdotal Evidence,” (accessible on You Tube) at the 49th NCECA conference in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2015, and was accorded Watershed’s “Legend” status with Paula Winokur and Wayne Higby in 2017. 2022 is Jack’s 60th year as a potter.

ONWARD, UPWARD, & OUTWARD AT THE WHEEL – A MASTER CLASS WITH JACK TROY

MONDAY, JULY 22, 2024 – FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2024 – 9:00AM

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
10 Meetinghouse Road
Truro, MA 02666
tel: 508 349-7511

Onward, Upward, and Outward at the Wheel

$680.00

Price includes (1) 25lb. bag of clay

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Instructor: Jack Troy
Monday – Friday
July 22 – 26
9am – 1pm
5 sessions
open studio: Mon- Thurs, 1-4pm

We will be achieving forms of increasing height and volume by directly stacking two or more cylinders of any size participants can confidently throw. Such forms may be either pottery or sculpturally oriented. We will also paddle thrown, enclosed “pillow” forms for functional or sculptural purposes. Come prepared to discover new ways of exploring scale and form.

For this workshop please bring:

– bring any tools you customarily use, as well as an apron and a towel
-a piece of pottery or other clay object you have lived with for several years and share what it has come to mean for you.
– and, please read “20 Questions” on my website for possible discussion- www. jacktroy.net

This is Jack Troy’s 61st year as a potter. He has taught more than 260 workshops and published over 120 articles and book reviews in ceramics publications in addition to writing Salt Glazed Ceramics and Wood Fired Stoneware and Porcelain. Jack Troy lives in Huntingdon, PA, where he taught at Juniata College for 39 years and started the ceramics program in 1968. He has taught more than 250 workshops in the US and eight countries. His book, Wood Fired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Salt Glazed Ceramics are standards in their fields, and he has published more than 100 articles and book reviews of every major ceramics periodical published in English. He and his crew fire two anagamas three times a year. Castle Hill is a favorite place to remind himself that learning and teaching are inseparable.

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