Glaze Workshops   with Chic Lotz
       

Line Blends for Glaze Surface and Color
Sacramento, CA • Alpha Fired Arts
March 26 & 27 • 9:30-4:30
www.alphafiredarts.com 

Cost: $150 + $25 Materials Fee
Registration: Call Alpha Fired Arts, 916-484-4424
Questions:  
The $25 materials fee is due at class, payable to Chic
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Develop Your Own Color Palette of Glazes 
Sonoma, CA • Sonoma Community Center 
May 21 & 22 • 9:30-4:00

www.sonomacommunitycenter.org 
(check periodically for spring class schedule) 

Cost: $150 + $15 Materials Fee 
Registration: Sonoma Community Center, 707-938-4626 - Ext. #1
Questions:  
The $15 materials fee is due at class, payable to Chic
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Line Blends for Glaze Surface and Color 
Portland, OR. Oregon College of Arts and Crafts 
June 9, 10, 11, 12
• 9:30-4:30
www.ocac.edu       800-390-0632

Tuition on or before May 23 is $424 Afterwards: $444 
The $20 materials fee is due at class, payable to Chic

This 4-day workshop combines two workshops: 
Line Blends for Glaze Surface and Color
+ Develop Your Own Color Palette of Glazes 

To Register for Course # CE70 - Starting in March:

~ Call 971-255-4205 Connie Malone Extension Program Registrar
~ online http://ocac.edu/#/community-programs/adult-programs/adult-continuing-education/
or go to www.ocac.edu , then click MORE> in the Community Program Registration box
-- under REGISTER NOW click "Online Summer Studio School Registration Form"
-- scroll down below the blank Registration Form to view Ceramics classes

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Workshop Descriptions Line Blends for Glaze Surface and Color: 
Perform hands-on mixing and firing of line blends to learn how to achieve the glaze surfaces and colors you desire for sculpture or dinnerware. Discover how varying the ratios of 3 major glaze components affects stability, color, firing temperature, glaze fit and glaze surface. Develop glossy, matte and textured surfaces. Learn about each ingredient and its function in the glaze. Develop colors, alter recipes and bring ^10 glazes down to ^6. We'll mix and fire ^6 line blends overnight so we can see the results, but you'll leave the workshop organized and empowered to experiment at your own firing temperature. 

The $25 materials fee includes a laminated color-coded chart of glaze ingredients grouped by families, a 3-ring binder full of glaze information and lecture notes, plus base glazes which are ready for performing line blends.
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Develop Your Own Color Palette of Glazes: During Chic's first Line Blends Workshop students learn the glaze chemistry basics needed to achieve a variety of glaze surfaces and colors. Now students will analyze one of their favorite glaze recipes, then create a new base glaze of their own. Using this new base glaze, students will do a series of line blends to create their own palette of glaze surfaces and colors. We will fire these newly developed line blends overnight in order to see and analyze the results. In class we will fire at ^6, but students will leave the workshop empowered to continue experimenting at their own firing temperature. Intermediate level students with glaze experience who have NOT attended Chic's previous workshop are welcome, provided they view her DVD "What Makes A Glaze?" prior to the workshop. ($25 special workshop price)
 


Email Chic for information or questions:


Ideally, registered students will email Chic a few weeks ahead of the workshop to receive specific details on preparing bisqued test tiles to bring to class. Students will also receive a questionnaire regarding the glaze characteristics and colors they would like to develop. Late registrants may purchase B-Mix ^5 bisqued test tiles at the class.


To register for workshops please contact:

 

Glaze Basics Workshop at Mendocino Art Center

 

 

 
Chic Lotz presented "What Makes A Glaze?" for high school teachers at the National Ceramic Educators Conference (K-12 Forum) in 2007. She has presented glaze workshops in California at the UC Davis Craft Center, Alpha Ceramics in Sacramento, the Mendocino Art Center, Ruby's in San Francisco and the Mud Hut Ceramics Center in Nevada City. Her glaze articles have appeared in Clay Times, Pottery Making Illustrated, the Potter's Council Newsletter and the Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California newsletter.