Marc Lancet | Everything Goes: The benefits of inviting chaos into the studio
July 6th-10th, 2009
In this wide ranging ceramics workshop, Marc Lancet will demonstrate a vast array of wheel and handbuilding techniques that he employs to create studio pottery and sculpture. Emphasis will be placed on combining techniques, developing novel forms and investigating the artistic process. Creative strategies for development and discovery in the studio will also be covered. Marc asks participants to bring a written copy of their favorite art related quote, poem and or writing on creativity, art-making and or art process.
Biography
Marc Lancet is co-author with Japanese master potter Masakazu Kusakabe of “Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics." His work is exhibited internationally. Lancet is in his twenty fourth year as professor of three-dimensional art at Solano Community College. He has been a visiting professor of sculpture at Portland State University in 1993-94 and at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. Lancet has been an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Shigaraki, Japan; the International Ceramic Center in Skaelskor, Denmark, and Gillingham School in Gillingham, England where he directed a public art project involving art students and local artists which has been honored with a national awarded for best artist-in-residency in England for 2001. Lancet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and a Master of Arts degree in Education from UCSB. In addition he has studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France and apprenticed in fine art casting at a foundry also in Paris. Lancet lives in Davis, California with his wife Annette and his daughter Evan.
July 6th-10th, 2009
Biography