Contemplate your life with clay: White Mountain workshops begin

If you always wanted to know how to make paper from fruit and vegetable matter or create paintings on silk based on the traditional methods used by Japanese kimono makers, there are a series of workshops designed especially for you.

The White Mountain Academy of the Arts is hosting their Spring 2005 community workshops as taught by qualified and professional staff.

Here is a sample of what they are offering this term:

CW73 Majolica Ware with instructor, Carmela Laganse
(January 29-30, 2005)
Workshop includes a slide lecture specific to majolica ware, demo, handouts, glazing, firing and a group mural. Bisqueware is provided and included in the workshop fee. Majolica is a type of glazeware which is an opaque white glaze that is highly decorated with color using stains and fired , fusing the colour to the glaze. Majolica is typically bright and painterly. Origins of majolica ware are from Spain, France, Italy and Holland.

CW03 Papermaking with instructor, Briana Palmer
(February 12-13, 2005)
Students will learn how to make paper from various plant fibers such as fruit and vegetable matter, Gampi, and recycled paper. Over two days, students will make paper, screens, as well as different techniques in paper making.

CW90 Art History - Isenheim Altarpiece with instructor: Barbara Alexandra Gunther
(February 19, 2005)
An introduction to this Northern Renaissance work and its creators, giving its art historical/cultural background, balanced by contemplative artistic exercises in clay or colour, to experience the mood of the festival of Easter or Christmas.

CW72 Raku Firing with instructor, Carmela Laganse
(March 12-13, 2005)
Two day workshop includes a slide lecture specific to raku fired ceramics, demo, glazing and firing. Bisqueware is provided and included in the workshop fee. Raku is a firing process developed in Japan where you put glazed work in the kiln, melt the glaze and pull the piece out of the kiln while it is red hot.

CW39 Ramozzo Silk Painting with instructor, Briana Palmer
(March 19-20, 2005)
Students will have the opportunity to create paintings on silk based on the traditional methods used by Japanese kimono makers. This process uses acid dyes and wax.

For more information on these workshops or the White Mountain Academy of the Arts, phone (705) 848-4347 / 1-800-368-8655 or visit them online at www.whitemountainacademy.edu.