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Summer Glaze Workshops
with Chic Lotz
August 2-3 (9:00 - 4:30)
^6 Glazes: Mixing & Dipping for Beginners with Chic Lotz
A workshop for those who have never mixed a glaze. Mix
glazes with 4 different expansion rates from Mastering ^6
Glazes and fire your bisqued test tiles to determine the
expansion rate of your claybodies for matching with glazes.
Use several colorful ^6 glazes to practice "Chic's Tricks"
for dipping , pouring and decorating your bisqued pieces.
Fee: $145 Beg Level
August 4-8 (9:00 - 4:30)
What Makes A Glaze? with Chic Lotz
Understanding and Altering a Variety of Recipes
A hands-on experience for those who have already mixed
glazes or completed the ^6 Glazes: Mixing & Dipping
workshop. Learn what makes a glaze at any temperature.
Chic organized all the glaze ingredients into a color-coded
chart so you can see how varying the ratios of 3 major glaze
components affects stability, color, firing temperature, glaze
fit and glaze surface. Her chart shows the "big picture" of
glaze ingredient relationships.
Students will:
- learn to analyze a glaze recipe
- recognize the function of each glaze ingredient
- be able to substitute one ingredient for another
- mix a line blend and a double line blend for color
- play Glazo Bingo, Go Flux and Create a Glaze to
reinforce learned concepts.
- make a "Flo Brick" to hold upright test tiles
- compare glazes by weight % and Unity Molecular
Formula using GlazeMaster calculation software.
- alter glaze recipes to create the glaze that you desire!
Fee: $300 / 5 days Beg / Inter. Level : Has already mixed glazes
Chic Lotz, artist and teacher, has worked with clay for over 30 years. She directed the Ceramics Department at the Marietta Parks and Recreation in Atlanta, GA , owned her own ceramics school, The Potter's Wheel, in Grass Valley, CA and exhibited in galleries around the country. Chic presented a lecture on "Glaze Basics" for high school teachers at the National Ceramic Educators Conference (NCECA K-12 Forum) in 2007. Her glaze articles and poems have been published in Clay Times Magazine (Jan 07), Pottery Making Illustrated (Nov. 07) and the Potter's Council newsletter (Jan O8). Chic has presented
glaze workshops in California at the UC Davis Craft Center, Alpha Ceramics in Sacramento, the Mendocino Art Center and the Mud Hut Ceramics Studio in Nevada City. In 2006, she produced a DVD, "What Makes a Glaze?" and is currently writing "Glaze Basics For beginners," a hands-on workbook for beginning glaze students.
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