North Carolina, Asheville - Odyssey Center For Ceramic Arts
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Linda & Charlie Riggs - Naked Surfaces And Alternative Firing
May 30 - June 1, 2012
Join Linda and Charlie for three exciting days of smoke, fire and fumes! Charlie and Linda will lead sessions in naked & horsehair raku, smoke and saggar firings and iron fuming. Enjoy the process of decorating pots with polished white and red terra sigillata, then firing them in atmospheres where the smoke and chemicals produce the final surface color. Achieve colors ranging from deep reds and oranges to stark black and white.

Cynthia Constentino - Interpreting The Figure
June 4- 8, 2012
Work from a live model and sculpt your interpretation of the figure. Utilize the figure to explore issues such as gender, social roles, culture and personal experience. Discussion topics will include 3-D design, proportions of the body, methods of developing content and tips for professional development. Cynthia will demonstrate a variety of construction techniques for sculpting including building armatures, cold joining and surface treatments. Come with your ideas and imagination, source images and personal stories. Leave with a wide range of techniques to apply to your own studio practice.

Fong Choo - Diminutive Teapots
June 11- 15, 2012
Master teapot maker, Fong Choo, will be your guide in the exploration of the teapot from large to small and from whimsical to utilitarian with strong emphasis on proportion. Push the boundaries of form, design and color. Discussion topics and demonstrations will include altering thrown forms, creating surface textures and attaching aesthetically pleasing cane and reed handles. Fong will share his unique approach for layering glazes to achieve the jeweled toned surfaces of his signature teapots. If you want to improve your teapot making, you must attend this class.

Sang Roberson - Soft & Shiny Slabs
June 18- 22, 2012
If you have been close to one of Sang's pots you understand the meaning of 'quiet beauty'. They exude a feeling that is hard to put into words. Join Sang for this class and discover new possibilities for your own work while constructing open and closed forms with soft slabs. Investigate a broad range of surface treatments including terra sigillata, burnishing, slip-trailing, sgrafitto, mishima and sprigging. Learn to pit-fire, polish and seal the pieces to enrich the skins. Bring low-fire bisque ware and practice application techniques. Demonstrations will include wall vessels, closed geometric forms, basketry designs and capturing air as armature.

Akira Satake - Imperfect Beauty
June 25- 29, 2012
Akira will present his distinctive Kohiki slip technique by brushing white porcelain slip onto a dark clay slab, then stretching to create a unique surface. Experiment with soft and hard slabs, while learning new ways to make teapots, teacups, pitchers, vases and boxes. Gain insight into, the meaning of "wabi-sabi" (finding beauty in imperfection) and the importance of "ma" the space in between. Akira will demonstrate his style of making tea ceremony bowls, water jars, and ikebana vases, all influenced by Japanese pottery from the Momoyama Period (1568-1615).

Suze Lindsay - Going Vertical
July 9- 13, 2012
Just when you thought you knew everything about altering soft and leather-hard functional clay forms, along comes Suze with lots more tricks. Always pushing the boundaries herself, Suze will teach you all she knows about her unique ways of altering and stacking thrown and hand-built parts to create vases, pitchers, covered jars and more. And she will demonstrate the slip trailing technique she uses to achieve her distinctive look. Also expect exercises that will stretch and expand your notions of imagery and surface enhancement. Daily demonstrations, sketchbook exercises, and discussions on contemporary and historical pottery will be springboards for experimentation and play.

Curt LaCross - Sculpting The Human Psyche
July 16- 20, 2012
The focus of this workshop will be construction techniques, anatomy and conceptual development in order to create psychologically weighed figures. WOW! Sounds heavy. Don't worry, you will have fun and learn a bunch from a great teacher. Using coils, slabs and a variety of armatures you will build a life sized human bust. Considerable attention will be placed on the facial features, skin texture and hands. Curt will implement his gestural approach to sculpting and manipulating texture in order to create the realistic human expressions he achieves in his work.

Jason Burnett - Graphic Clay: Cut, Copy And Paste
July 23- 27, 2012
Using two simple materials: slip and newsprint paper, we will introduce layers of information and texture onto our clay surfaces. Through silkscreen printing, cutting, copying and pasting we will dissect, transform, and manipulate our drawings, patterns, and images while creating exciting new exteriors. But there's no stopping us there! We'll use simple digital techniques to make decals and photocopy transfers. Computers NOT required, but one can come in handy! Jason is a very generous teacher who will guide and inspire you to carry your work to new levels you have not imagined. .

Susan Filley - Porcelain: Form And Finesse
July 30- August 3, 2012
Prepare to be entertained as you learn new ways of working with porcelain. Susan is a master potter whose workshops are packed with practical information, interesting stories and 'tricks' for making good pots with finesse. Acquire new techniques for working in porcelain, beginning with basic forms and moving on to more complex altered shapes. Throwing off the hump, pulled and hand-built handles, cups, bowls and trays. Cut, alter and assemble. Susan will help you improve skills, throw larger, and make interesting forms with personality. She will also lead discussions on glazing and firing.
 

North Carolina, Penland - Penland School of Crafts
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Kathy King
Looking Over Your Shoulder
March 11 - May 4, 2012
This hands-on workshop will include a course in ceramic art history. Through a series of lectures focused on historical techniques along with the social context from which the work was created, we will consider everything from Neolithic Chinese storage pots to contemporary ceramic art. As we look at the past, we will respond with work that reflects our own point of view. This approach will allow us to cover everything from earthenware to cone 10 porcelain and stoneware in functional and sculptural applications. There will be a special focus on surface decoration and treatments, print-transfer techniques, and narrative. The class will include oxidation, soda, and overglaze enamel firing. Open to all levels, but basic wheel throwing and hand building skills will be helpful. Click here Click here for more information on the Spring Eight-Week Concentration: March 11 – May 4, 2012.

Penland Summer 2012 Preview
Dan Anderson- Altered Pots
Israel Davis - Objects & Images
Kevin Snipes - Drawing Conclusions
Kelly & Kyle Phelps - Figure Narrative: Clay as Process
Catherine White - Woodfiring: A Studio Stew
Deborah Horrell & Tom Spleth - Fork in the Road: Clay & Glass
Martina Lantin - Pots in Process
Arthur González - The Metaphorical Portrait
James Watkins- Raku, Saggar & Throwing Large
MaPo Kinnord-Payton - Low-Relief Tile Production
Jim Lawton - Shape Shift: The Pot
Tom Bartel - Assembling the Figure
Kate Missett - Printing on Clay
Jeff Zamek - Easy Glaze Calculation

North Carolina, Zirconia Hand in Hand Gallery
Ruthanne Tudball  Workshop
Feb. 29th and March 1st, 2012
2-day demonstration workshop with noted British potter and author of "Soda Glazing" hosted by David Voorhees at his studio in Zirconia, NC. $295 fee includes gourmet lunches. Workshop followed by wood-firing session in David's wood fired car kiln.  Additional $100 fee required for firing session.

All the info at:  http://www.handinhandgallery.com/RuthanneTudballWorkshop.html
 

Virginia, Nellysford
March 9-15, 2012
Unique Workshop Opportunity in the Foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains

Potters Nan Rothwell and Kevin Crowe will host a week-long workshop during which participants will work three days in Nan and Kevin’s studios.  Nan makes functional salt glazed and stoneware pots.  Kevin focuses on large scale pots and teabowls fired in  a three chamber combination anagama-noborigama wood kiln.  Come experience Nan and Kevin’s distinctive approaches to throwing and surfacing.

$360 for each three-day session, or $680 for both.   
Information at NanRothwellPottery.com and/or http://www.KevinCrowePottery.com/