COIL-BUILDING THE wall bust - focus on the face

Zoom Workshop with Adrian Arleo

Saturday, December 10 and Sunday, December 11, 2022

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This remote, hands-on intensive workshop will be held Saturday and Sunday, December 10 - 11, and will be chock-full of useful information on coil-building a life-size head with partial shoulders to mount on the wall. The focus will be on rendering the face, giving special attention to the anatomy of the features. We’ll look at how underlying musculature, volume and planes of the face tie into one another, and how making subtle changes can add youthfulness, age, and character to the piece. Playing with the angle of how the head is positioned on the wall will add new perspectives to the over-all impact and narrative of the piece.

Adrian will demonstrate her building techniques, and cover simple anatomy, problem solving solutions and creative ways to make evocative sculptures. Wall hanging techniques will also be discussed. Time-lapsed video and slide presentations will convey large amounts of information in a condensed format, and will be enriched by live demonstrations addressing key details and participants’ needs. This workshop will be limited to 12 participants, with the intention to give individuals plenty of one-on one feedback and help.

The schedule for Saturday and Sunday will consist of a morning session (10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pacific Time) and an afternoon session (2 p.m. - 4 p.m.) with a two hour break in the middle (12 p.m. - 2 p.m.) for working in your own studio.

Workshop Fee is $300
A $50 non-refundable deposit is due at time of registration in order to hold your spot. Payment in full is due by Saturday December
3rd.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

ADRIAN ARLEO has spent the last 29 years living outside Missoula, Montana, with her family and a menagerie of animals. She works full time as a ceramic sculptor, and says this about her work: “For 40 years, my sculpture has combined human, animal and natural imagery to create a kind of emotional and poetic power. Often there's a suggestion of a vital interconnection between the human and non-human realms; the imagery arises from associations, concerns and obsessions that are at once intimate and universal. The work frequently references mythology and archetypes in addressing our vulnerability amid changing personal, environmental and political realities.”

She studied Art and Anthropology at Pitzer College (B.A. 1983) and received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. Adrian was an Artist in Residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 1986-87, at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in 1987-88, and in 2012 was an invited artist for the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, also at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Adrian’s work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in numerous public and private collections. She received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and 1992, and in 1995 was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines and online, and she is a frequent workshop instructor across the US and abroad.