In this 3-day workshop, Zablocki will introduce his inventive ways of using glaze as a sculptural material from which to build dynamic ceramic vessels as well as adorn and decorate raw porcelain clay forms. During this workshop Zablocki will share his philosophies around making purposeful and considered pieces that challenge traditional ceramic conventions and embrace chance and risk to make objects that hinge on the verge of utility and sculpture.

Participants can expect a fun, exciting and collaborative atmosphere rich in both traditional and non-traditional ceramic techniques from hand-building, wheel throwing, surface decoration to casting, cold-working and constructing with solid blocks of glaze.

Participants will have the opportunity to make a number of vessels that investigate ceramic processes and techniques in turn developing new and authentic ways of thinking and making.

The container, the void, the receptacle, the pot, the vessel, will become a springboard from which we leap, creating objects that unapologetically hinge on the verge of utility and sculpture.

Alex’s work takes apart the ceramic vessel and re-animates its constituent parts. Vestiges of utilitarian ceramics are free to perform as comic objects frozen in acrobatic recombination. The proper anatomy of the vessel is let loose and the assembled parts slip along viscous saturations of colored glaze.

*Basic pottery experience required

*All materials are included

*Conducted in English