Instructor: Laura Williams
Tuesday - Friday
September 8 - 11
9am - 2pm
Open studio: Tues-Thurs, 2pm - 4pm
4 sessions

Explore cartooning as philosophy with Midwestern Artist Laura Williams. Complete making and drawing exercises to form images, then bring your drawings to life by learning methods for drawing on and sculpting narrative forms in clay. Demos will include, underglaze mixing, inlay, underglaze pencils, sgraffito, sculpting figures from slabs, proportion, pinching playful figures.

Laura (they/she) is a UK born, US based ceramic artist whose practice explores material, narrative, color and play. Laura studied ceramics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has worked as a ceramics educator for the last decade. They’ve taught at ceramics centers across the country and are thrilled to be leading a class with Castle Hill. “I use techniques of pinching, wheel throwing, and slab building to form wares which are then decorated using slip, terra sig, slip, glaze, underglaze and or the underglaze pencil. When working in clay I aim to create bright and playful wares that are a conversation between the clay, color, and form. I’m interested in the way clay records our every choice; throw lines, finger prints, brush strokes, even sometimes our moods. I’m interested in the way colours and patterns play upon different clay bodies and aim to create a dynamic and playful surface that compliments the personality of the clay on which it’s painted. My patterns and illustrations respond to life. I draw what I know and experience.”