Making and Using Sponge Stamps with Paul Wisotzky, Saturday, October 3, 2pm-6pm

Participant Skill Level: Basic glaze and decorating skills required.
Materials Provided: Instructor provides laser cut stamps for use during the workshop and all tools and materials needed to make-your-own stamps.

Participants will need to bring bisque work to decorate. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to buy laser cut stamps. Payment via Venmo, credit card and cash.

Workshop Description:
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to make and use sponge stamps to bring unique and expressive surface designs to your pottery. You’ll learn how to use sponge stamps at the leather and bisque stages with a variety of materials, including slips, underglazes, glazes, and wax resist. Enliven and expand your decorating possibilities with sponge stamps. They oYer endless possibilities to transform surfaces creating bold patterns, layered imagery, and personalized designs. In addition to making your own simple sponge stamps, you’ll also get to work with a wide
range of professionally designed stamps — available in an array of shapes, patterns, and sizes — precisely laser-cut from industrial-grade sponge. Laser-cut sponge stamps will be available for purchase at the conclusion of the workshop.

Basic glazing and decorating skills are required.

Paul Wisotzky is a studio potter and educator from Truro, Massachusetts.  He makes functional pottery from porcelain and stoneware and fires his work in soda and reduction atmospheres at his studio Blueberry Lane Pottery.  Paul teaches at the Harvard University Ceramics Program and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.  Paul developed a process of digitally designing and fabricating sponge stamps using graphic design software and a laser cutter.  You can learn about this process and how to use sponge stamps from Paul in a recently released instructional video available through the Ceramic Arts Network and CLAYflicks.  Paul uses the stamps to decorate his pottery as well as teaching others how to use them in his workshops and classes.  He is a founder and co-producer of SodaPosium a national educational gathering and celebration of soda firing.  Residencies include Penland School of Craft, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Red Lodge Clay Center.

*Refunds will not be given within one week of the beginning of class. A $25 processing fee will be retained from any refund. If a class must be cancelled due to low enrollment, a full refund will be given.