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<aside> 💲 Price: $140
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<aside> ⌚ Hours: 2
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Queering Ceramics — Ceramic sessions that are informed by curated queer theory & literature excerpts. You will be provided with printed out material and class will start with a lesson & discussion.
Poetics and Perspective: Slab surface decoration session that follows an exploration of queer poetics and historical perspective. This is a great introduction to some of the most famous queer texts as well as a couple deep-cuts. Technical processes will be stamp, letter pressing, underglaze & sgraffito. On Touch: We will explore the topic of touch and its meaning in relation to queerness, then apply that informed perspective to clay. Students will make “pinch pots,” or whatever they deem to be the queered-vessel. Technical processes will be pinching, pressing, petting, molding, shaping, and queering. Queering the Body: Throw-and-Alter session that investigates queer relationships to the body: the clay body. We will be doing surgery to thrown vessels to alter, shape, decorate, adorn, codify, complicate, play, and possibly explode their bodies. We will bring an informed and still individual perspective of gender to our clay explorations. Legacy: What does leaving a legacy look like when applied to queerness? How does socio-politic impact the queer legacy? How can we, as queer legacy creators, create a legacy that subverts or evades hegemonic erasure? Explore these ideas through creating wall art from ceramic slabs. Technical processes will be stamp, letter pressing, underglaze & sgraffito. Personalized lesson plan: Send me an email if you have a different or more specific idea/request! I'll gather my resources and put together something unique and special.
Ramona is a ceramics teacher, theatrical lighting designer, and professional art handler. They have a background in teaching ceramics at GnarWare Workshop, OxBow School of Art, ViaClay, CPS high schools and of course The Digs <3 . They did installation at the National Museum of Mexican Art for over 3 years and they currently hold the Exhibitions Coordinator position at Marwen in addition to leading the teen artist residency program called Marwen LABs. Their personal artistic practice encompasses ceramics, poetry and printmaking. Their strengths lie in wheel throwing, and they are capable of throwing more than 15 pounds at a time. The vessels they create most often are composed of two or more large thrown pieces and attached handles. Their most recent studio work has pivoted into the world of plaster casting, and they are developing a library of custom 2-part plaster molds. Additionally, Ramona is an independent researcher in the fields of queer history and lesbian/transgender theory. They have taught several ceramics classes informed by queer theory, and have robust lesson plans incorporating queer literature deep-cuts.
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