Figure Sculpture: a practice in seeing with Jennifer Kaplan — Jul 12 - 13
Gesturally hand building the whole figure through coil and solid techniques.
Gesturally hand building the whole figure through coil and solid techniques.
Gesturally hand building the whole figure through coil and solid techniques.
Dates: July 12, 2025 → July 13, 2025
Times: Saturday 10-2pm and Sunday 10-4pm
Level: All levels
Workshop Description:
Join Jennifer (Jenn) Kaplan for a two day Ceramic Sculpture Workshop series to ignite your figurative clay skills. This course will focus on gesturally sculpting with an emphasis on seeing one another. Students will learn foundational sculpting techniques like coil building and pinching to create emotive figures. Students can expect to walk away with small (hollowed) gestural piece and a half sized figure sculpture with varying degrees of detail.
Students can anticipate an openness to the unknown outcome of play and dialogue as well as an excellence in technical instruction. Arriving with images of the person you wish to sculpt is encouraged.
About the Instructor:
Jennifer (Jenn) Kaplan is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Warren Wilson College and a Bailey Grant Recipient. They teach figure sculpture workshops at Mighty Mud, were a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and instructor at the Knoxville Museum of Art, have attended residencies at Cub Creek Foundation and Armory Art Center where they taught Ceramic Chemistry, Wheel Throwing and Altering, Soda-Firing and Figure Sculpture in partnership with the Norton Museum of Art. Jennifer earned their MFA from The University of Notre Dame and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in between they were Lead Instructor at Penguin Foot Pottery and taught Urban Gardening at Marwen in Chicago. Jennifer has shown in the Snite Museum of Art, Red Lodge Clay Center, Companion Gallery, Kansas City Clay Guild, Saratoga Arts Center, Queen City Clay, Relay Ridge Gallery, Appalachian Center for Craft, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center as well as others primarily in the Midwest and Southeastern United States. Jennifer will present at Wedge, Australian Ceramics Triennale in 2025.
Required Materials:
- Serrated rib or fork and wooden knife or equivalent
Optional Materials:
- Small modeling tools
- small paint brush and a banding wheel are helpful