GLAZING WORKSHOP
Take Glazing to Another Level
with Judd Jarvis
Monday, February 16th, 7-9pm
$80
This evening class is designed to deepen your understanding of the glazing process and how glazes work, helping you gain greater control and creative freedom when finishing ceramic pieces.
Basic knowledge to be covered:
What makes up a glaze
Different surface qualities
Importance of temperature and time
How the glaze behaves in the raw stage
What happens to the glaze during firing
The class will cover a number of different techniques like:
Wax resist and scraffito
Glazing large and difficult pieces
Layering glazes for different effects
Using simple materials to alter the glaze surface
Brushing stain and glazes for decorative effect
Judd will also cover basic information on underglazing too, but this class will use regular glazes. Attendees will receive two pieces made by the instructor to practice on and to keep. Finished pieces will be fired and ready to be picked up 2 weeks after the class.
It’s important that you have some basic ceramic experience to attend this workshop, but you don’t necessarily have had to have taken a class at The Workshop at Timber Ridge.
Judd Jarvis is a Virginia-based ceramics artist and educator who explores the tactile and visceral qualities of clay and glazes through functional and sculptural forms. The surrounding environment, textures, patterns, colors, and the human influence on the landscape all play into his work.
He received his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on a graduate teaching fellowship in 2003, and his BFA from the University of Miami in 1999 after starting his undergraduate education in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa at local Indian Hills Community College.
Judd has assisted teaching classes at Penland School of Craft and Arrowmont, given artist talks, taught clay classes & workshops, and exhibited his work across Virginia and the Midwest. Soon after graduate school, Judd moved to Virginia where he maintained a personal studio and taught wheel and glaze chemistry classes in a local studio in Charlottesville. Judd participated in the Artisans Studio Tour for several years begun in 1994 by a group of Charlottesville area artisans to enhance the community's awareness of professional artisans living and working in the region. Having recently moved to the Shenandoah Valley in beautiful Lexington, VA with his artist wife, he can focus again on teaching and the further exploration of his work. Along with a variety of classes in their renovated horse barn, he is offering raku firings and plans to build a wood-fired kiln for him & his students to learn in.