Porcelain Demonstrations By ​Antoinette Badenhorst

One day Demonstration.

ALL CLASSES OFFERED BY ANTOINETTE IS FOR BOTH WHEEL THROWING AND HAND-BUILDING POTTERS.

Details:

• Discuss the character of porcelain.
• Morning: Wheel throwing and altering. 
• Throw bowls
• Trim bowl previously made
• Alter already trimmed bowl
• Finish and carve already altered bowl. 
• Demonstrate large wide rimmed bowl – throw (before or after lunch)

Lunch

• Alter large wide rimmed bowl already made. 
• Hand build a teapot. 
  

A one day porcelain demonstration with a group of potters.

Antoinette normally have porcelain
work available on  display.

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​Antoinette specializes in the following porcelain techniques: 

Learn how to alter porcelain

​​Understanding Porcelain: ​Wheel throwing of fine translucent vessels, plates and bottles; 
Hand building Porcelain: Fine translucent vessels and other objects
Hand building porcelain dinnerware
​Wheel throwing porcelain dinnerware
Teapots: Wheel thrown and Hand built
Wheel thrown or Hand building porcelain dinnerware

Antoinette Badenhorst demonstrates how to make a porcelain bottle on the potters wheel.

All her workshops cover the following information: 

• Characteristics of porcelain
• Basic throwing
• Basic hand building
• Glazing and firing practices. 
  

​Antoinette covers a lot of subject matter during her porcelain demonstrations. She needs at least 1 day access to the studio and equipment ahead of a demonstration to prepare work. Her demonstrations are presented like a cooking show.

Pottery demonstrations to the general public and schools

People are interested in the pottery process.

It is necessary for the hosts to consult with Antoinette about the demonstrations that they are interested in. 

There are times when the general public benefit from pottery demonstrations. 
Antoinette adjust her demonstrations to suit the need of the specific group that she is working with. 
The foundation of all her demonstrations is working with clay. 
Many times Antoinette will use clay to describe her own approach to relationships, or business or problem solving. 
Other times she is strictly showing the clay process as knowledge enrichment to adults and children. ​
There are times when there is a need for inspirational or spiritual discussions. Antoinette is a potter, she is not a pastor or a psychologist, but her life and work encouraged many people in the past and when she creates her work, she always wonder how other people will see it. There are analogies in the clay process that is applicable to human life. 

The story-line/narrative behind the porcelain sculpted vessels of Antoinette.

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demonstration to children​

Children learn about stoneware pottery and porcelain.

Children are getting ready to create pottery tiles.

Presenting a short presentation of how I create my work and what the inspiration behind it is at the American Craft Exhibition.