Sgraffito Surface Decoration | Fall 2
Ceramics | Available
Join Martha as we spend four weeks exploring the sgraffito surface decorating technique. We'll carve and scrape away color with a variety of tools to create patterns and textures in this class designed for intermediate potters.
Bring your ideas, designs--and after the first week--each ceramicist will need to come with leather hard vessels or tiles.
Skills:
Intermediate ceramics skills. Students need to be able to independently prepare vessels to the leather-hard state.
Martha Manikas-Foster
Martha Teaches: Introduction to Clay and Handbuilding Workshops
Martha Manikas-Foster is a writer, broadcaster, and potter living in Corning, NY who uses slips, underglazes, and carving tools to decorate her thrown and hand-built ceramics. Martha’s work has been included in numerous art exhibitions and events in the area including the Arnot Art Museum’s Gallery Gala and the Museum’s Holiday Art Market, 171 Cedar Art Center’s Artful Exhibits, Summer Mosaic, and annual Student & Faculty Exhibitions. She is a member of the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes where she regularly displays her work. Martha teaches one-day ceramics workshops in the art center’s ceramics studio. Her beautiful functional work is available for purchase on Corning’s Market Street at Finger Lakes Unique and the ARTS Council’s gallery shop.