Clay at the Table
with S. Lantz & Amanda Salov
CERAMICS 667 001 | 3 credits | $225 Lab Fee
July 28 - August 10, 2024
In this class, artists will engage with techniques in the ceramics studio to adorn a celebratory dinner event on the final day of class. Students will utilize handbuilding, throwing, and other formation techniques to make plates, bowls, cups, candle holders, and wearables, as envisioned by the group for the party. Participants will also learn how to add pigment to glaze to create ombre (color to color blend) and gradients (color tinted gradually). The class will culminate in an delightfully colorful meal and celebratory installation. We will review the work of artists who have successfully merged social practice with exceptional ceramic wares including Judy Chicago, Felix Gonzales-Torres, and Jennifer Ling Datchuk. Readings will include Ashley Anastasia Howell’s research on utilizing color in dining spaces and we will screen Pete Pinnell’s Thoughts on Cups. Assignments will invite students to design a ceramic jewelry piece for the event and consider vessel specificity by designing a platter for a specific dish or item of food.
S. Lantz is an artist working primarily in ceramics. Drawing upon histories of adornment and communications of individual and collective identities, their work explores explicit or encoded identities, context, care, and the ownership and telling of stories and histories. They are fascinated by in-between points in the continuums of fitting and not fitting, clarity and obscurity, and the complexities inherent in visual languages of communication and documentation. S. Lantz has exhibited ceramic work nationally and abroad, and have most recently participated in residencies at the Penland School of Craft and the International Artists Residency Exchange. They received a Bachelor of Arts in 3D4M (ceramics+glass+sculpture) at the University of Washington, Seattle. Born in Seattle, Washington, Lantz has spent the past few years in Maine, where they held the positions of Studio Coordinator at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and Administrator of The Color Network. They are currently based in Northwest Arkansas.
S. Lantz, Family Portrait, 2022, glazed and unglazed porcelain, hand-dipped beeswax candles, dimensions variable, each approximately 4 x 4 x 4 in.
Amanda Salov’s work examines the qualities of a moment, or the idea of a moment in physical form: temporal, fragile and fleeting. With her porcelain sculptures, installations, and paintings, she uses natural phenomena as metaphors and anchors for the transitions we all face. Raised in rural Wisconsin, she received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and her MFA from the University of Missouri - Columbia. She has shown work throughout the United States and has earned a number of awards, including the Oregon Art Commission Grant (2013, 2016, 2017), Ford Family Foundation Grant (2016, 2017), a Washington State Artist Trust Grant (2018), and an Allied Arts Grant (2022). Salov has received residencies and teaching opportunities around the globe including at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts in Iceland, Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation, the University of Washington, and the University of Arkansas. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington with her semi-feral cattle dog and partner.
Amanda Salov, Arch, 2022, porcelain, pigment, 3 x 12 x 18 in.