Color, Form and Function

Color, Form and Function

Instructor: Barbara Hansleman

Tuesdays, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, Class #D12

Tuition: $260 (Members: $245)

Treatments of sculptural, hand built and pinched forms will be explored in this class.  This is an advanced class where weekly demonstrations will be given in "tricks of the trade" hand building techniques as well as instruction on working with glazes, under glazes, slips and terra sigillatas.  Colored engobes combined through or layered into clay will also be demonstrated.

This class is limited to ten students.

Barbara Hanselman

Barbara considers herself a maker and mentor of all things clay.  Her pots, constructed from slabs or using a pinch-strip method I developed, bear the look of fabric, metal, leather or whimsical china. In addition, she addresses how what she is going to make will look before asking the question, what's it going to be - an approach quite out of the norm for most potters. Her signature pieces evolve from the stoneware 'fabrics' she create and enhance with patterns, texture and color. It is her unorthodox methodologies coupled with classic hand building techniques - pinching, coiling, extruding - which result in these whimsical pieces which beg to be handled.