Porcelain workshops in the USA
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Hands-on porcelain workshop
Antoinette's pottery studio in Saltillo, Mississippi
Choose between hand-building or wheel-throwing. A maximum of 12 students (6 hand builders and 6 wheel throwers) can participate. This is a fun and loaded porcelain workshop where you’ll learn how to control porcelain, the Diva of clay, through hand-building and wheel-throwing projects. If you have any questions, contact Antoinette. Scroll down and register soon to secure your spot! There’s limited space available.
Below are the details of the workshop. Make sure you can attend this workshop before registering. All payments are non-refundable. |
Workshop details
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Studio and workshop arrangements (See PDF below)
Meet and greet: Sunday, (5-30 pm -8.30 pm) We start with an informal meet and greet. Supper will be served. Arrive at around 5-30 pm. Please inform Antoinette if you have a guest for supper, to make provision for enough food. We will have a discussion of porcelain/pottery in general and get to know each other. Please bring images of your work or bring a piece of pottery along. If you want Antoinette to evaluate your pottery, it would be in a group setting. Potters will receive : 10lbs clay included in the workshop. If more clay is needed it can be purchased in the studio. A set of studio tools ( suitable for porcelain) to use for the week and to be returned after the workshop. Wheel throwing involves the following:
Hand building involves the following:
By Wednesday night most of the making should be complete, but you will keep the work covered while altering and carving takes place. The studio is heat and air controlled. Beware of clay drying too fast. Potters will reclaim their clay throughout the week. Studio rules
The studio is open every day by 8 am - coffee in the kitchen Classes 9-5 every day, with a break for lunch between 12-1 pm - we will order food. Everyone pay for their own (Venmo is available to make it easy) The studio will close at 6.30 p.m. That will allow you to practice and work independently for 1.30 hours every night Monday-Thursday. It is required that there are AT LEAST 2 potters working. Antoinette will NOT be one of the two. Food: You are responsible for your own breakfast, lunch and dinner, with the exception of Sunday night. Please make sure that Antoinette knows about allergies. Your guest is welcome to Sunday supper, but please be sure to let us know. The kitchen is available to prepare your own salad or a sandwich and anytime you want to eat together as a group. Photographs and video clips: You are allowed to take those. Please share it with me, since I use it for promotional purposes. If you share it on social media, please tag me. Koos will also take images and video clips throughout the week. If anyone does not want to be included in the imaging, let him know upfront. If you stay silent I consider it as a confirmation from you that it is okay. Traveling and housing options for Antoinette Saltillo studio workshopsSaltillo is 4 miles north of Tupelo, Mississippi. There is a direct flight from Nashville airport to Tupelo Regional Airport with Contour. Rent-a-car facilities are available at the airport.
Boarding
Try to stay in a hotel or B&B either downtown Tupelo or on the northern side of Mainstreet. These hotels will bring you within a15-minute drive to Antoinettes’ studio in Saltillo in the heart of business. Hotels in Tupelo Choose a place closer to the Northern side of Tupelo to be within 15 minutes away from my studio. Anyone that has special needs, please let Antoinette know so that she can be on the lookout for your needs. Campgrounds at Barnes Crossing For folks who like to camp out, there are camping facilities about 3 miles away from the studio at Nashville to Tupelo Regional Airport Uber, Lyft in Tupelo, MS. Rent a car at the Tupelo airport |
Workshop timeline
The timeline is flexible and may be adjusted, depending on the group dynamics. Sunday: General get to know each other Discuss pots in my collection and pottery in general Monday: Discuss the character of porcelain Demonstrate a pinch pot. All potters work along to get to know and understand porcelain as the clay medium – this is especially important because as you go back home, some goes to a humid, and others goes back to very dry conditions. You will learn how porcelain clay dries and how to manipulate and control the drying process, until it is ready to go into the kiln. Remember the Porcelain Diva has her own way! I do recommend that you finish a few pinch pots, however, the pinch bowls should not keep from making your wheel thrown pots; move on if needed. There is a lot of pinching involved in all my altering, especially in the altering process of either hand build or wheel-thrown pots. Demo of wheel throwing: I will demonstrate a V-shape bowl and if time permits, a U-shape bowl. These are the basics from which I begin my sculpted vessels. Pay attention to the design inside and outside. You do not want your objects to slump in the fire. Practice these forms and keep one to be trimmed and altered. Demo of hand building: I will also demonstrate how to throw slabs. (discuss slabs) Hand-builders will make a V-bowl and/or a U-bowl and sculpted envelope and practice to make these into objects. Keep one of each. Slabs for the envelope sculpted bowl. Tuesday: Demo: Porcelain tools/making and buying. Trimming right side up. Join and alter the envelope First altering of bowls (both groups) Wheel throwing checklist: Keep your work covered Keep practicing wheel-throwing Begin trimming right-side up. (afternoon) Finish pinch bowls . Hand builders checklist: Finish pinch bowls Finish basic V and U shape bowls Join the envelope elements and begin to alter. Wednesday: Demo: Altering and carving porcelain Throw wide bowl or tall bottle Review characteristics of porcelain Hand builders and wheel thrower checklist Continue working on 2 bowls and the envelope vase. Altering and carving. Your work is entering a critical period in which it may want to crack; make sure you have it well covered. Thursday: Demo: altering and carving Question and answering. All potters work on their projects simultaneously Practice the various techniques. Getting pieces finished Friday: Finishing of all pieces Antoinette will demonstrate on request throughout the week. Answer questions Friday by 3 pm all work goes into the bisque fire Cleaning of studio return of tools and equipment. Friday night: Antoinette presents a slide show, more questions answered and the group visit and eat together. The group decide how supper will be done. Potluck or eat out. Saturday Discuss firing and glazing techniques Discuss cracking Pick-up bisqued work, final questions, and answers Good buys around noon. Group photo |
Antoinette has traveled extensively in America to present workshops. She presented porcelain workshops to college students, art and craft institutions and private studios. She also presents arts integrated workshops to school children and other communities in Mississippi through the grants program of MAC. You can contact her to request a workshop. She schedules her programs 1-2 years ahead of time.
Past porcelain workshops in the United States. |
Porcelain potters in Antoinette's studio in Saltillo Mississippi
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