Glaze Workshops   with Chic Lotz
       
"What Makes A Glaze?"
A 3-day workshop with Chic Lotz

January 17th 18th and 19th  2009  (A holiday weekend)
at Mendocino Art Center  http://www.mendocinoartcenter.org
Learn "What Makes A Glaze" at any firing temperature. Designed specifically for beginners who want to alter or design their own glazes to get exactly the glaze they desire.

The Chart
Chic Lotz has organized all of the ingredients into a color coded chart. She builds the chart step-by-step, so you can see how varying the ratios of 3 major glaze components affects stability, color, firing temperature glaze fit and glaze surface. The completed chart shows the overall "big picture" of ingredient relationships and how they can be used together to create glazes with the characteristics that you desire. Learn how to "analyze" a glaze recipe, the function of each ingredient, and which ingredients can be substituted for others.

Use Glaze Calculation Software
Working in teams of two or three with glaze calculation software, students will easily discover the difference between the Recipe %, Weight % and the Unity Molecular Formula. Learn to alter recipes and calculate the glaze you desire for further testing.

Hands On Mixing and Testing
For hands on experience, students test their clay bodies to determine the expansion rate. Next, each team will design and test line blends and double line blends. Then, the entire class will analyze the fired results for shared learning.

Using glaze games and humorous poetry, Chic has designed a very dynamic program which enables students to alter and design their own glazes to get what they desire. After this workshop you will be able to answer the question, "What Makes A Glaze?"

 


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Glaze Basics Workshop at Mendocino Art Center
 
Chic Lotz, artist and teacher, has worked with clay for over 30 years. She directed the Ceramics Department at the Marietta Parks and Recreation in Atlanta, GA , owned her own ceramics school, The Potter's Wheel, in Grass Valley, CA and exhibited in galleries around the country. Chic presented a lecture on "Glaze Basics" for high school teachers at the National Ceramic Educators Conference (NCECA K-12 Forum) in 2007.

Her glaze articles and poems have been published in Clay Times Magazine (Jan 07), Pottery Making Illustrated (Nov. 07) and the Potter's Council newsletter (Jan O8). Chic has presented glaze workshops in California at the UC Davis Craft Center, Alpha Ceramics in Sacramento, the Mendocino Art Center and the Mud Hut Ceramics Studio in Nevada City. In 2006, she produced a DVD, "What Makes a Glaze?" and is currently writing "Glaze Basics For Beginners", a hands-on workbook for beginning glaze students.