When: Saturday, September 12 + Sunday, September !3 from 10:00-4:00 each day with a break for lunch.
Instructor: Suze Lindsay + Vince Montague
Skill Level: All Levels
Cost: $300

This is more than just a clay class, it has the potential to change your entire studio practice and outlook on creativity. We’re welcoming two of our favorite makers and people into our studio and think this is experience not to be missed.

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Inspiration comes from many sources, especially ourselves. Join Vince and Suze as they open up their studio practices to share their creative strategies behind the how and the why of their functional and sculptural work. This workshop will explore how curiosity becomes form, how vulnerability becomes strength, and how making can be an act of resilience. This workshop will draw upon our own stories and imagery to generate new pathways for work through playful experimentation and improvisation. Each artist will share strategies and techniques to support ideas that come to us from writing and drawing. On the second day of the workshop we will investigate surface design that speak to the life of the maker behind the work. This experience is for all levels and partially hands on, so bring your sketchbook for writing and drawing to be inspired to create new ceramic work about personal form and imagery.

Suze Lindsay’s formal ceramic studies started with a 2 year CORE Fellowship at Penland School of Craft, followed by earning an MFA at Louisiana State University. She then returned to Penland School of Craft as an artist in residence. After completing those 3 years in residence, her goals focused on creating life as a full time studio potter, setting up her studio in Penland’s rich craft community with her husband, and fellow potter, Kent McLaughlin. Working with stoneware clay, Lindsay subtly suggests figure and character by manipulating forms after they are thrown. An integral part of her work includes surface decoration to enhance her pottery forms by patterning and painting slips and glazes for salt firing. Her mark making is strongly influenced by studying historical ceramics from cultures in Japan, Crete, Chile, China, and Native North American. Lindsay has said, “I make things to entice the user to take pleasure in everyday activities, inviting participation, promoting hospitality.” Currently, she owns and operates Fork Mountain Pottery. She lives and works in the mountains of western North Carolina.

Vince Montague received his Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from NYU in 1989 and soon began publishing short stories in literary magazines. He also began a twenty-year career as an adjunct instructor of writing at colleges and universities. He married a woman who was a filmmaker and potter who died in a car accident in 2009. During her lifetime, he never touched clay or made pots. After her death, however, he began to study ceramics on his own. He took workshops and classes. In 2014, he left his teaching career, reopened his wife’s ceramic studio and began making art. His sculptural work has been exhibited at The Epperson Gallery (Crockett, CA), Hugomento (San Francisco, CA), The Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), The Bunker Space (Palm Beach, FL). Solo shows include Red Metal Barn (Cloverdale, CA) and The Epperson Gallery (Crockett, CA). Cracked Pot, a memoir of grief, writing and clay, was published by Latah Press in February 2023, and his chapbook of poetry, Next Door, was recently published by Bottlecap Press.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Please note a minimum of 4 people is required for most classes to run. If you’ve enrolled and we don’t reach the minimum you will be issued a full refund. If you sign up and then are unable to attend for any reason there are no available refunds or credits unless we can fill your spot with someone on the waitlist, so the sooner you can let us know the better. If we have to fill your spot with someone from the waitlist there is a $20 processing fee to account for our time as well as web fees we can’t recoup. You are welcome to send someone in your stead if you cannot make it, just let us know prior to class so we can update our rosters.
If you have questions about our cancellation policy please email us before signing up.