Saturday, August 29
1 to 5 PM
Come spend an afternoon getting hands-on with glaze!
In this four-hour workshop, potter Mary Roberts will walk you through a variety of the resist methods she uses in her own studio practice for creating surface interest. You will learn easy techniques for creating patterns and designs using sample tiles and resist materials we provide.
Whether you're newer to ceramics or looking to expand your surface vocabulary, you'll leave with new approaches you can bring to your own work.
Mary Roberts is a ceramic artist living near Neahkahnie beach on the north Oregon coast. Her work is primarily thrown on the potter’s wheel.
She uses near-to-porcelain stoneware and rustic tawny clay to create elegant and contemporary forms with a fresh feeling. After shaping to a refined surface, she carves, etches, and applies wax-resist patterns, slips or glazes. Roberts is most inspired by contemporary British and Scandinavian ceramics and modern Japanese textile design and ceramics. All her work is intended to be functional. Roberts retired as a consumer brand business executive at age 60. As a lifetime collector of hand-made ceramics, she then had the time to dedicate herself to creating this art form. She studied ceramics at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Multnomah Art Center, Portland, Oregon where she was an open studio participant.
She is a member of the Oregon Potters Association and is represented by the Riversea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
Mary is also a former Hoffman Center board member and leader, and we're glad to welcome her back to the clay studio, this time as an instructor.
Hoffman Center classes and events are often photographed or filmed, and we love sharing those moments on our social media, website, and newsletter so people can get a feel for what it's like to create and connect here. By registering, you agree to be included in images of the event you have registered for. If you would prefer not to appear in images, please tell a staff member when you arrive.
Saturday, August 29
1 to 5 PM
Come spend an afternoon getting hands-on with glaze!
In this four-hour workshop, potter Mary Roberts will walk you through a variety of the resist methods she uses in her own studio practice for creating surface interest. You will learn easy techniques for creating patterns and designs using sample tiles and resist materials we provide.
Whether you're newer to ceramics or looking to expand your surface vocabulary, you'll leave with new approaches you can bring to your own work.
Mary Roberts is a ceramic artist living near Neahkahnie beach on the north Oregon coast. Her work is primarily thrown on the potter’s wheel.
She uses near-to-porcelain stoneware and rustic tawny clay to create elegant and contemporary forms with a fresh feeling. After shaping to a refined surface, she carves, etches, and applies wax-resist patterns, slips or glazes. Roberts is most inspired by contemporary British and Scandinavian ceramics and modern Japanese textile design and ceramics. All her work is intended to be functional. Roberts retired as a consumer brand business executive at age 60. As a lifetime collector of hand-made ceramics, she then had the time to dedicate herself to creating this art form. She studied ceramics at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Multnomah Art Center, Portland, Oregon where she was an open studio participant.
She is a member of the Oregon Potters Association and is represented by the Riversea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
Mary is also a former Hoffman Center board member and leader, and we're glad to welcome her back to the clay studio, this time as an instructor.
Hoffman Center classes and events are often photographed or filmed, and we love sharing those moments on our social media, website, and newsletter so people can get a feel for what it's like to create and connect here. By registering, you agree to be included in images of the event you have registered for. If you would prefer not to appear in images, please tell a staff member when you arrive.
