Ceramics: Handbuilding in the Mexika and AztecTraditions

Adult Class | This program is completed

New Offering! All levels welcome. Profesor habla Espanol.

4/10/2017-6/5/2017

10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$220.00

$200.00

$35.00

Discover the rich ceramic art practice from the Mexika and Aztec traditions. Through demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on projects you will learn the histories of functional and symbolic objects, and explore a variety of aesthetic guiding principles, surface design, and handbuilding techniques. Projects will include jarritos, masks, handmade pots, and small sculptures.

What you will learn in this class:
1. History of traditional Mexican and Aztec Pottery and Ceramic Arts
2. Basic techniques for hand-building: slab construction, scoring, carving
2. Sculptural concepts including additive and reductive processes
4. Glaze and surface decoration techniques

LA CERÁMICA: Modelado a mano en la tradición Mexika y Azteca
Descubre las ricas tradiciones en la historia de la cerámica y las prácticas contemporáneas de la gente Mesoaméricanas. A través de demostraciones, clases y la propia practica, usted aprenderá la historia y artesanía de la cerámica. Proyectos tales como jarritos, mascaras, ollas y esculturas pequeñas podrán ser realizados.

Resultados del aprendizaje:
1. La historia de la cerámica Azteca y Mexicana tradicional y el arte de la cerámica
2. Técnicas básicas del modelado a mano: tallado, rayado, planchas
3. Conceptos de escultura incluyendo procesos sustractivos y procesos aditivos
4. Técnicas de barniz y de decoración escultural en la superficie

  • Fleisher will be closed on Monday May 27, to observe the Memorial Day holiday, the make-up session will be on June 12.
  • The studio fee includes the use of studio materials, glazing, and firing. You will need to purchase additional supplies.
  • Clay* is available for purchase in the school store, no outside clay permitted
  • Bring your own tools or anything you may think can be used as a tool
  • Or a basic pottery tool kit* is available for purchase in the school store, which includes a sponge, steel scraper, potter’s rib, modeling tool, wire cutter, needle tool, ribbon tool, and loop tool
  • Clothes that can get messy or apron*.

  • Items marked with an * are available for purchase in Fleisher’s school store. Members receive a 10% discount on art supply purchases.