Wallowing: The Joy of Manipulating Mud on the Potters Wheel
With Mike Caemmerer
August 13 - 19, 2023
There is nothing quite like the feeling of getting elbow deep in mud and manipulating the madness into wonderful forms. Over the course of this class, students will push themselves to create unique work that challenges both their ability to throw larger pieces and their ingenuity to creatively alter those forms. Students will play with fluting, scalloping, cutting, handling, kidding, and otherwise building on to their wheel-thrown work.
The point of the class is exploration and play. As such, we want students to get lost in the process without worrying about creating a product. Students who are product-focused will have less fun than those who are willing to just let it go!
About the Faculty
Mike Caemmerer
Mike grew up with artistic parents, professor/painter dad and weaver mom, always in an environment that allowed dabbling in one art form or another. He first sat at a potter’s wheel at the Grünewald Guild pottery in 1988, and has mostly been self-taught ever since with the help of amazing mentors along the way, especially […]
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