Antoinette's workshops
"You know you understand your subject if you can teach others how to do it".
"If you cannot explain something, you do not understand it".
Antoinette taught ceramics on 3 continents and in 10 countries.
Her students were artists, teachers, craftsmen, hobbyists, schoolchildren, disabled people, and interest groups.
"If you cannot explain something, you do not understand it".
Antoinette taught ceramics on 3 continents and in 10 countries.
Her students were artists, teachers, craftsmen, hobbyists, schoolchildren, disabled people, and interest groups.
Online ceramic classes bring the art teacher right into your own studio where you can watch the videos at your own time and on your choice of technology. You do not have to pay for hotels, additional travelling and meals, and may even carry on with your own art while attend the virtual pottery class. Antoinette shares 40+ years of experience with her online students and has assisted many artists to move their art to the next level.
TeachinArt.com (online school of art) recorded several of her 5-day hands-on workshops in her own pottery studio and converted is to 6-week online workshops. Students have 10 weeks access to all the videos. During the class, Antoinette answers all questions via email. From beginners to advanced ceramic artists have been very successful in following her guidance. This ceramic school caters for wheel throwing, hand building, designing, glazing and firing, and even porcelain dinnerware classes If you are interested in translucent porcelain items, or you want to start your own pottery studio, or you need a big challenge in your career, see Antoinette's Online Workshops. |
International porcelain workshops. The interest and research into translucent porcelain is growing all over the world. Potters who were scared to work with porcelain (the Diva of clay), discovered how easy it is to throw porcelain on the pottery wheel. The learn from Antoinette how the knowledge of the clay character makes hand building and even sculpting easy. The reasons why Antoinette's workshops are successful is because she goes in-depth in explaining how porcelain behaves in various situations. Making her own porcelain clay recipes gave her understanding of how to control the movement of the clay, how to modify, alter and carve into porcelain clay. Her explanations of porcelain "Faults and Remedies" helped many international potters understand how to fix their own mistakes. Antoinette works with beginner, intermediate, and advanced potters, and enjoys showing her students firsthand why porcelain is not difficult but tedious to work with.
Antoinette presented international hands-on workshops in the USA, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Canada, Belgium, Slovenia, Switzerland, France, and Mexico. |
USA porcelain workshops. Antoinette taught hands-on workshops in several states and cities in the USA, but the place she enjoys the most, is her own porcelain studio in Saltillo Mississippi. That is where she makes her own porcelain clay recipes, her own ceramic glazes, and where she has a lot of homemade tools and templates that she can share with students who attend her hands-on porcelain workshops in the place she calls home.
Despite the fact that Antoinette's workshops are loaded with information, there is always time to get to know each other better. She constantly throw little nuggets of "pottery wisdom" in. One of those nuggets is : "There is no right or wrong way to work with clay: only a comfortable way and one that works for you. " One of the most important ways to learn is by discovery. That is how artists develop and form their individual styles. |
Arts integration for schools. I have the knowledge and ability to integrate pottery with school subjects, using the Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards to bring an understanding to students of both these subject fields.
I can engage students in the creative process so that they can connect pottery with other subject areas and successfully meet their future goals I have insight in helping to develop the whole child and my communication skills are strong enough to take us both to success. As an instructor, I know trained teachers through PD programs so that they can reach their students through art. Now that the Teaching Artist Certification Program lifted the curtains for me to see the whole school scene, I believe I am better equipped than ever before. |
What to expect from Antoinette's workshops
Antoinette has been working with porcelain since the early 1990s. Early in her career, she often heard that porcelain was a "very difficult" clay medium. As a mostly self-taught potter, working with porcelain was just another hurdle to get over, so when she created her first porcelain bowl on the potter's wheel, she could not understand why people considered the clay a difficult medium.
Enjoying the smoothness of porcelain clay she went on working with it.
She created glazed porcelain objects and pit-fired porcelain bottles, bowls, and sculptural objects.
Enjoying the smoothness of porcelain clay she went on working with it.
She created glazed porcelain objects and pit-fired porcelain bottles, bowls, and sculptural objects.
In 2005 Antoinette wanted to work with translucent porcelain, but one after the other porcelain sculpted bowl turned out a disaster. She went back to basics and her research took her through the history of porcelain which involved wars, greed, and deceit. Back at the drawing board, she really got to know the "Diva of clay".
Her first article about what porcelain is was published in Pottery Making Illustrated in 2007. Since then, Antoinette published several articles about the character of porcelain and taught in-person porcelain workshops in various parts of the world, including her own studio. Antoinette does not hold back. Her workshops are intense, teaching potters in detail all they need to know and understand about porcelain.
Her first article about what porcelain is was published in Pottery Making Illustrated in 2007. Since then, Antoinette published several articles about the character of porcelain and taught in-person porcelain workshops in various parts of the world, including her own studio. Antoinette does not hold back. Her workshops are intense, teaching potters in detail all they need to know and understand about porcelain.
If you are interested in hosting a workshop, in the USA or abroad, please contact Antoinette.
Mentoring and porcelain consultation
Antoinette works with many artists on a regular basis online, while she also has potters visiting her studio for consultation on:
- Porcelain faults and remedies
- Porcelain clay bodies.
- Making, glazing and firing practices for porcelain.