Bill van Gilder | Hands-on Functional Pots!
January 4th-8th, 2010
Pots that function usefully in our kitchens and on our tables have been at the center of a potters work throughout history.
Join us for this intensive, technique-filled, winter week of making pots as we share ideas about how to throw and hand build pots that ‘work’… and how to efficiently teach those techniques to others. Bill will demo and describe in detail, the project-steps he uses to teach students of all ages. Skill building for teachers, studio potters, and hobbyists alike is the priority.
This is an ideal workshop for instructors who teach one-on-one, small groups or a classroom full of students, but all are welcome. Each day will consist of morning and afternoon demos with an alternating focus on both wheel-thrown and hand-built projects.
At the wheel, we’ll make lidded forms, drinking vessels and pots that pour. Baskets, hump-block platters and stretched oval trays will be the hand built projects demonstrated and practiced.
This workshop will have a hands-on ‘making-only’ focus. All work made will be bisque fired by the end of the week. Bring your toolbox, studio clothing, a few studio towels and your sketch and/or notebook. Cameras are welcome.
Biography
Bill van Gilder has been a professional potter for more than 30 years. He teaches claywork at The Art League, Alexandria, VA, and The Frederick Pottery School, Frederick, MD. Bill conducts workshops on pottery tools & techniques and kiln building, and is the designer of a new professional line of potter’s tools. His work is exhibited and held in numerous collections worldwide. Bill also writes a regular column on teaching techniques for Clay Times magazine, and is the host of a new DIY Network television series entitled DIY Pottery. To see more of Bill’s work, please visit www.vangilderpottery.com
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