Develop your unique style of hand building and glaze techniques. Explore individual style with a preconceived idea or based on a class demonstration. Students will be encouraged to push the boundaries of design and function of utilitarian pottery. Learn to experiment with glazes and glaze techniques.
Prereq: Beginning Handbuilding or similar experience. Class is not suitable for beginners.
Required Supplies
Purchase clay at first class by cash, check, or Venmo - $25 (checks payable to Crealdé School of Art; Venmo code is in Ceramics studio).
Instructor
Missy Kimsey-Hickman
Missy Kimsey-Hickman studied art at Seminole Community College under Grady Kimsey and received her B.A. from Colorado State University. From her Uncle Grady, she learned about primitive clays and pit firing at a young age. She has a focus on primitive clay techniques not only as a potter but as a professional archaeologist. She learned to love working in high fire clays from the instruction of the late Crealdé potter Susan Vey. Susy taught with meticulous detail how to hand build and throw. Those core techniques are used in all of her clay pieces. Missy eventually expanded the medium to sculpting under the instruction of David Cumbie. Kimsey-Hickman works the clay with imagination to create new and unusual figures. She also works in multimedia with old and new items using epoxy clay for added features. Her personal belief is that you should always be yourself as an artist and enjoy the process. Her sculpting is anthropomorphic and whimsical.
Instructor Bio