WORKSHOPS
March 26, 2024 - "Kreielsheimer Visiting Artists, Gina Freuen, Mark Moore & Chris Kelsey”
Hosted by: Gonzaga University Ceramics Department
Location: Gonzaga University Ceramics Studios, Jundt 001
Workshop Hours: 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Free to the public
Info Contacts:
Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery
115 S. Adams
Spokane, WA 99201
Trackside Studio Phone: 509-863-9904
Mat Rude
Gonzaga University Art Department
rude@gonzaga.edu
September 7, 2018 - "3 Strong" Sarah Magar, Mardis Nenno & Boni Parker
Location: Gonzaga University Ceramics Studios, Jundt 100
Workshop Hours: 10 AM - 3 PM
Free to the public, Donations welcome
Info Contacts:
Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery
115 S. Adams
Spokane, WA 99201
Trackside Studio Phone: 509-863-9904
Mat Rude
Gonzaga University Art Department
rude@gonzaga.edu
In conjunction with the “3 Strong” exhibit being held at Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery for the month of September, Sarah Magar, Mardis Nenno and Boni Parker will be presenting a workshop in the ceramic / sculpture studios, Jundt Room 100, Gonzaga University Art Department. Magar, Nenno and Parker are functional potters but with different approaches, all three with whimsy and artistic character. Demonstrations will go on in tandem offering construction process and philosophical approaches to their work and studio regimens. Workshop is free to the public, runs from 10 AM - 3 PM. Reception for opening of exhibit follows at Trackside Studio, 115 S. Adams from 5 - 8 PM.
September 23, 2017 ~ Loren Lukens from Brace Point Pottery in Seattle, WA
Workshop Hours: 10 AM - 4 PM
Workshop Location: Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery, 115 S. Adams, Spokane, WA
$30. for adult$10. for student with ID Purchase workshop by clicking here!
Trackside Studio is honored to feature the ceramic works of Loren Lukens for the month of September. His exhibit opens Friday, August 25th from 5 - 8 pm, also, First Friday of September, the 1st from 5 - 8 pm, continuing through this workshop, September 23rd. Loren has been a life long resident of Seattle, Washington, maintaining a full time studio and gallery for over 40 years. He built a professional career with his pottery that was represented across the United States through wholesale and retail festivals and fine gallery representation.
WORKSHOP will cover throwing, trimming, altering, slip casting, hand building, art squeezing, glaze spraying. Discussion of work posture, studio management, business practices and ruminations from over 45 years in the biz.
Info phone: 509-981-2279
email: Trackside@tracksidestudio.net
website for Loren Lukens: www.LorenLukenspottery.com
Loren Lukens
Biography
I discovered clay and pottery making as an art student in the 1970’s and it was love at first sight. It has been my passion and livelihood for more than 40 years. Brace Point Pottery is the studio/gallery and home in beautiful downtown Arbor Heights, West Seattle, that I have shared with my wife, Beth Kirchhoff (pianist, opera coach and conductor), since 1998.
Artist Comment
The beginnings of humankind go hand in hand with the beginnings of pottery. Of contemporary craft media, only basket making is as fundamental. The shapes of pottery are the shapes of the human body, and are named such: lip, foot, shoulder. They are shapes we know very well on a level beneath our consciousness. My intent is to apply contemporary interpretation to traditional form and purpose by creating objects for people to use and enjoy.
As an art student, Form and Function drew me to pottery, but painting has been an increasingly important aspect to my work. My best pots resolve the difficulty of painting in three dimensions, while maintaining the integrity of the form.
My glazing technique is squirt bottle “Art Marks” under a casually sprayed landscape of glazes. High temperature reduction firing allows a saturation of color and glaze/clay interaction especially with iron and titanium bearing glazes and the possibility of unpredictable aventurine crystal formation as well as the dramatic and somewhat elusive copper red. Porcelain clay provides a bright, white backdrop to enhance color response and increase durability
June 3 & 4, 2016 - Washington Clay Arts Summer Social
Spokane, WA
Demonstrations by Ryan LaBar and Donna Flanery.
Demonstrations by Ryan LaBar, Portland, OR., and Donna Flanery, Missoula, MT
Saturday, June 4th, 2016 - 9 AM - 4 PM
Gonzaga University's Ceramics Facility, Spokane, WA
Free to the public, all are welcome
Ikebana Workshop with Ellen Krehbiel, The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 6:30 PM
Workshop Location: Trackside Studio, 115 S. Adams, Spokane, WA 99208
Join us as founding president, Ellen Krehbiel, Ikebana International Spokane Chapter #230, demonstrates the art of Ikebana, using the various ceramic forms we have on exhibit at Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery. Ellen is the founding President of Spokane's local Ikebana chapter, one of three Ikebana Sensei living in Spokane and is an instructor of Ikebana at the Japanese Cultural Center, Mukogawa.
10% off any ceramic sales including the Robison / Guss exhibit for those in attendance.
Free to the public. Doors open at 6:15
Contact: Trackside@tracksidestudio.net, 509-863-9904
Workshop Featuring Stephen Robison & Kathleen Guss
Friday, Saturday, April 1 & 2, 2016
Workshop/Demonstration Hours: 10 AM - 3 PM
Workshop Location: Gonzaga University, Jundt Art Building, Ceramics classrooms on basement level.
Hosted by: Gonzaga University Ceramics Department & Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery
Contact: Hitchcock@Gonzaga.edu or Trackside@tracksidestudio.net, 509-981-2279 or 509-863-9904
DEMONSTRATION by guest artist: REID OZAKI
Saturday, September 5, 2015
10 AM - 4 PM
Location: Trackside Studio Ceramic Art Gallery, 115 S. Adams, Spokane, WA
Contact: trackside@tracksidestudio.net or phone: 509-863-9904
Limited Seating, $20 to register. REGISTER ONLINE: http://mkt.com/trackside-studio/reid-ozaki-workshop
This is a quote from a recent workshop Reid gave in Honolulu, Hawaii.
"Often, as potters, we become so enamored with the wheel and focused on its competent use, that we can lose sight of the possibilities. Conventional thinking about the potter’s wheel can be very limiting. Reid will present the concept of the wheel as a tool and not an end in itself. Once you see beyond the simple profile and height of the traditional use of the wheel, the potential for creating unique forms becomes apparent."
Techniques will be presented giving participants a novel way to think about the wheel. Reid will discuss the parameters that need to be addressed in the throwing process when making forms for altering and the development and creation of the tools he uses to alter his work.