Join us with Artist Liz Mazurek in exploring her techniques and artistry.
Students at all levels are welcome and can expect to learn: altered pots, using different altering techniques: dimpling, darting, pinching, stretching thrown pots. Pitchers, vases, cups, mugs, larger bowls as time allows. Assembly will be addressed, attaching handles and spouts. Glazing Techniques.
Bio: 1995, received her B.F.A. degree in ceramics at Southwestern University in 2018. She has exhibited her work regionally and nationally including events in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, and more. She completed her first two-person exhibition in the spring of 2018. In the fall of 2018, she moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to complete a year-long postbaccalaureate program at Colorado State University. She lived in Fort Collins, Colorado and Santa Cruz, California over the past six years teaching ceramics and working as an independent artist.
Artist Statement:
Captivated by the way skin shrinks and swells, wrinkles and stretches, I create seemingly animate forms that emulate the body’s undulating, dynamic exterior. I am compelled to use our own tactile surfaces as a way to relate to clay, which similarly has memory and movement. By creating altered porcelain tableware, I find that most shapes are easily personified and related through posture, poise, hips, elbows, and most closely- use. A porous matte glaze blushes and weeps amongst subtle pale surfaces to mimic an intimate, tangibly comparable softness and vitality of skin. Supple, rounded curves give each vessel a lively essence, quietly illuminating similar bodily qualities.
