Visiting Artist Workshop Clay Form We Transform Through Fire
This workshop is held a week before the 2025 NC Wood Firing Conference. For this hands-on train kiln firing workshop, each student will bring up to 5 bisqueware to glaze, slip, load, and fire in the Sawtooth train kiln. The workshop instructor, Antra Sinha, is a faculty at Utah State University where the train kiln was originally developed. Before the firing, there will be a Power Point presentation about understanding the workings of a wood firing train kiln. Antra will share her experiences of using this way of firing and the ways of loading the kiln to get exciting surfaces on your potteries and/or sculptures. There is importance given to the type of clay you use for making the work for this workshop. There will be sharing of slips and surface decorations that will complement the fire. Eventually leading to learning about firing that create variation on surfaces of the ware, and about form and aesthetics.