During the 2 weeks at MISSA, students will embark upon the journey of developing personal style. Once some degree of proficiency is achieved on the potters’ wheel, the next step is to bring personal expression to the anonymous thrown pot. Look both inside yourself and outside at your external environment.  What inspires you? Music? Nature? Architecture?  Bring as much information about yourself as possible … slides or examples of recent pots or other artwork, your journal, music, or anything else relevant to who you are as an individual. At the end of our 2 weeks at MISSA, you and Steven will choose an individual assignment to be completed over the next 8 months.

 

The final stop on our journey will be February 28 - March 2, 2008 (scheduled to coincide with NCECA in New Orleans) at Center Street Clay in Sandwich, Illinois. Students will bring completed work for critique and a group show. While the show is being hung, we will share our experiences. Bring images, insights and challenges to share with the group. The culmination will be a public opening of our show at the Center Street Clay Gallery on Sunday March 2nd.

 

 

Talent is long patience and originality, an effort of will and intense observation.

    Flaubert

 

 

This international 2-part class just might be the first of its kind. The idea of working with students for 2 weeks and sending them off with a long-term assignment that will culminate in a gallery exhibition at Center Street Clay is the most exciting project I’ve ever been involved with.

    Steven Hill

 

 

Pre-requisites: Commitment to yourself and the group. This is not a 2-week workshop and requires the ability work diligently for 8 months and to share yourself and your work. “Some degree of proficiency” is purposefully vague. At a minimum, however, students should be able to reliably throw a 10” cylinder. Students must also have access to a studio so they can complete their body of work. Preference will be given to studio potters and teachers or to students on that career path.