Glen Arbor Arts Center hosts “Marks on Clay”
From staff reports
“Marks On Clay,” a three-day, hands-on workshop June 21-23, explores pottery decoration beyond simply glazing. Offered through the Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC), potter John Huston leads students through traditional methods of using colored slips for sgraffito and slip trailing, oxide mixes for over/underglaze brushwork, and carving and impressing techniques.
The workshop is held at the GAAC’s Thoreson Farm pottery in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Pots will be provided for decorating; or students may bring two or three bisque fired pieces for the brushwork portion of the workshop. Workshop tuition is $200 for GAAC members, $210 for nonmembers. For more information and to register, go to GlenArborArt.org and click on CLASSES; or call 231-334-6112.
John Huston has been making pots since 1973. He has studied and worked with local potters in Morioka, Japan and produced early 19th century American reproductions at Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement near Indianapolis, Indiana. He and his wife, Amy Stevens, own and operate the Glen Lake Artists Gallery in Glen Arbor. John has been the GAAC potter-in-residence since 2005.
