Patty Wouters

Workshops

Upcoming workshops in 2013 :

• July 4 – 7th: “throwing on the wheel” in the Art Academy of Turnhout (more info: www.cirkel2.org)
• October ’13 -> February ’14: workshop: “Throwing with porcelain” in the Art Academy of Turnhout (more info: www.cirkel2.org)
• October 28th -> Nov 2nd: workshop “working with FLAX porcelain” in Ticino, Switzerland (more info: www.toepferschule.ch)

Patty wouters is willing to give lectures and teach workshops about the following subjects:

Lectures:

1. Travelling experiences in Rwanda, Ethiopia, China, Japan, Korea and the ceramics in these countries
2. Artist-in-Residencies: where and how to apply
3. Primitive firing techniques like: paper kiln, firing in an open fire with images from Africa, India, …
4. An overview of her own ceramic work

Primitive Firing Techniques:

1. Constructing + firing a paperkiln
2. Building + firing a “field-kiln”
3. Pitfiring
4. Saggar firing
5. Sawdust-firing 
6. General Smoke-firing techniques
7. The influences of soluble salts and sulphates in these firing methods

Workshops about:

1. Throwing porcelain
2. How to burnish pots on the wheel
3. Terra sigillata
4. Paper-clay

A combination of several subjects can be handled during one workshop.