Jim Koudelka Workshop

The Clayfolk Workshop Committee is pleased to announce a hands on workshop with clay artist, Jim Koudelka.  He is a Professor Emeritus in Ceramics from the Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon where he has taught for twenty eight years.

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Have questions? Please contact Jim Nordal at moc.liamg@jladron

Dates: May 20-21, 2023

Time: 9 AM to noon, and 1 to 4 PM

Cost: $150 for Clayfolk members, $170 for non-members with a 20% discount for Bloom Pottery Members

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Jim Kouldelka Bio:

Jim Koudelka was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent the first half of his life in the Mid West where he received his BFA from OhioUniversity and his MFA from Indiana University. The great Northwest is his current home. He is a Professor emeritus in Ceramics from the Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon where he has taught for twenty eight years. Jim has been an Artist in Residence at The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, the Bullseye Glass Connection, Portland, OR and Senior Resident at OCAC, Portland OR. He has maintained an involvement throughout his career in both functional and sculptural work. His work has been exhibited in numerous national and regional shows; receiving honors and awards and has been published in a variety of books and magazines.  Jims’ recent functional work explores the vessel as a painting in the round with the form becoming a sculpted 3 dimensional canvas.  A variety of playful line drawings, geometric shapes, patterns and vivid colors also reference the visual environments, activities, and participants of the exuberant carnival atmosphere.

Jim Koudelka – Artist Statement
Functional Work

Mid Century Modern Plus

All of my current functional vessels’ represent my interest in the plastic nature of ceramic materials and processes and my response to them. This manifests itself through the spontaneity and directness in which I throw, alter and decorate these pieces. I regard each piece as a painting in the round with the form becoming a sculpted 3 dimensional canvas. Line, shape and color interact with and accentuate form. As one touches and views the pot from various sides they can experience numerous visual components, compositional relationships as well as physical attributes. These vessels and their surfaces are playful and pleasurable in viewing and use. They embody the intentional and responsive dynamic that generates from and is my creative process. To achieve the visual, physical and informative qualities of this work I involve myself in an intuitive but informed drawing and painting process. The wheel thrown porcelain forms are results of a creative and technical dance between materials, process and myself. It is somewhat choreographed but is also improvisational. The drawn and painted surfaces are my abstract representations of feelings and places using line, form and color. Paintings by abstract artists such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder and Joan
Miro' inspire some of my style. The richness and complexity of each vessel’s surface involves numerous steps: the lines are impressed in the clay when it is made and semi soft; after bisque firing, stain is applied and wiped off; then a variety of colored underglazes are hand brushed in areas to define and complete the compositions on the vessel/canvas. The porcelain is covered in a beautiful clear glaze and then fired in a gas kiln to a
high fire temperature 2,400 degrees F, vitrifying the clay and making it semi translucent.

Scraffito Workshop with Richard Roth

The Clayfolk Workshop Committee is pleased to announce a demonstration workshop with clay artist Richard Roth.  

The workshop is now full

Richard Roth’s bio:

Richard Roth celebrates almost fifty years of experience as a studio potter and ceramic arts instructor. He
is known for scraffito designs in both porcelain and stoneware clay which is a technique of brushing
colored liquid clay slip over leather hard clay. Designs are then transferred from patterns, sketched
directly on the surface, hand carved, and backgrounds carved away. He also adds colored slip designs by
slip trailing techniques. His work has been included in numerous west coast exhibitions and galleries.

His workshop will give students demonstrations of throwing, altering, trimming, tool making and
decorating techniques as well as opportunities for students to practice these techniques with
individualized guidance. Students are encouraged to bring a sketchbook and leather hard forms to work
on at the workshop.

Visit Richard Roth’s Website

Tea Duong Workshop

The Clayfolk Workshop Committee is pleased to announce a demonstration workshop with clay artist and Clayfolk member, Tea Duong.  

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For those who do not wish to register online you can still do it the snail-mail way by downloading this workshop registration form and mailing a check to the Carole Hayne, P.O. Box 337, Merlin, OR  97532.

Have questions? Please contact Carole at gro.klofyalc@spohskrow

Tea’s bio:

As a young child and soon-to-be artist, Tea Duong immigrated from Vietnam to the United States.  He has been a studio potter since 1986.  As an artist, he has studied and worked abroad in New Zealand, Australia, and Europe.  Currently, Mr Duong maintains an expansive studio in the Coast Range of Western Oregon.

Tea has taught pottery classes for over twenty years and, due to frequent requests, recently began offering ceramic workshops at various learning institutions. He has a master’s degree from Truman State University (formally Northwest Missouri State University) with an emphasis in art.  Tea’s students will tell you he has an amazing talent for conveying knowledge of his own personal and unique wheel throwing techniques.

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