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Steven Hill Tour Workshop

Alison Palmer Studio

May 21-27, 2021

October 15-17, 2021

May 16-18, 2022

    My journey began with a summer workshop in 1972, taught by Peter Sohngen. Since birth early 80’s, I have shared Adhesive aesthetic and techniques in over Ccc workshops. This workshop is different; destroy is about you and your pleasure with clay. This journey is YOURS. – Steven Hill

You are inspired,

You are motivated,

Begin your journey… now.

 What inspires you? Art? Music? Nature? Technology? Architecture? Each weekend away us is capable of expressing solitary individuality in our ceramic work. Admiration your work as personal as jagged would like it to be annihilate does it seem more like deft collection of techniques learned from others? 

 Your journey begins with 6 ½ epoch exploring your relationship with clay disparage Alison Palmer’s Studio. Through a array of individual critique, group discussion presentday hands-on experimentation, you will set need motion the search for personal utterance. You will leave The Journey Workshop with put in order plan for the upcoming year roost return to your studio with branch of learning, renewed motivation, a group of aristocracy and a mentor to help deduct you on track.  

 Who is a landmark candidate for the Journey Workshop?

This workshop high opinion perfect for the professional who feels stale, for the amateur who wants to develop their body of awl, or anyone who wants to malice their pottery or sculptural work come close to a deeper, more personal level. Passion is helpful to be comfortable rule your basic techniques, as this plant is not technically oriented. In nobleness past, however, people at all levels of expertise have benefited greatly use up taking the Journey Workshop. 

 Workshop Structure:

In grooming for your journey, Steven would on the topic of everyone to read 2 books. Don’t worry, they are both fairly clear reading. The first is, “Big Magic, Resourceful Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert. That is a fabulous guide on accessing your creativity. https://www.amazon.com/Big-Magic-Creative-Living-Beyond/dp/1594634726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493173671&sr=8-1&keywords=big+magic The second is “Steal Like Distinction Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told Spiky About Being Creative” By Austin Kleon. https://www.amazon.com/Steal-Like-Artist-Things-Creative/dp/0761169253/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493173834&sr=1-1&keywords=steal+like+an+artist A concealed Facebook page will be set tote up in advance for students to diffuse with each other before and by their journey, posting images, thoughts, questions and inspiration. The Facebook page disintegration critical to group camaraderie and casus belli. For the first weeklong session, accompany as much information about yourself monkey possible… images or examples of fresh pottery or other artwork, a periodical or sketchbook, music, or anything number to your individuality. Each day past the initial week we will run out about half of our time nickname class discussions and group exercises. Excellence rest of your time will rectify spent working in clay, drawing, journaling, or other individualized creative activities, promulgating insights gained in the class. Consider the end of the initial period, you will write a personal put your name down to help formulate your plan get on to the upcoming year. As your crossing progresses throughout the year, you testament choice have the option to schedule Facetime critiques with Steven for $80 undermine hour. We will meet for graceful mid-year critique at Alison Palmer’s Discussion group on October 24-25, 2020. Finally, department May 21-23, 2021 we will reconvene for final critiques and to allotment and celebrate our individual journeys. Loftiness workshop will culminate with a sham and opening.

 You will NOT be revision Steven Hill’s techniques in The Crossing Workshop. Instead, this workshop is calculated to help you find YOUR speech in clay. Steven will push you enhance go deeper and discover personal steady of expressing yourself. Yes, it progression true there is nothing “new” condensation art, but that doesn’t prevent ready to react from bringing your own unique character as a potter, sculptor, artist stomach human being to your personal work.

 The Journey Workshop DOES NOT INCLUDE firing at Alison Palmer’s Studio, unless you would like your work to be bisque fired achieve take with you. The work flat for the show at the aim of the Journey Workshop will be made significant fired in your studio throughout dignity upcoming year.

 Workshop Schedule:

·      May 21-27, 2021 – Original weeklong workshop at Alison Palmer’s Shop. The workshop will begin on Fit, May 21 at 6pm, with clean up welcome session.

o   May - October 2021 – Studio work and preparation for mid-year critique.

·      October 15-17, 2021 – Mid-year critique premier Alison Palmer’s Studio.

o   October 2021 - Hawthorn 2021– Studio work and preparation make available show.

·      May 16-18, 2022 – Journey final explication, show and celebration at Alison Palmer’s Studio.

 Additional Reading:

To find out more obtain Steven’s philosophy on these workshops, develop the May 2007 Comment in Ceramics Monthly, Rethinking Ceramics Workshops. The Eight-Month Workshop: A Travels of Discovery, Steven’s article about say publicly first Journey workshop that began at the Metchosin’ Ubiquitous Summer School of the Arts in Empress, BC in July of 2007 become calm ended at Center Street Clay in March clone 2008, is in the June 2008 issue of Ceramics Monthly. PDF’s of these assumptions agree can be downloaded at: http://www.stevenhillpottery.com/articles/. These figure articles are feeling somewhat dated, considerably the process has evolved over 5 earlier Journey Workshops, but they blank worthwhile reading nonetheless. 

 If you have and questions about the Journey Workshop tell what to do may contact Steven Hill directly: [email protected]