Decorative Hand-Built Bowl Making with Terra Sigillata Surfaces
Register Here: https://redwingarts.org/calendar-of-events/2025/11/15-16/decorative-bowl-making-with-rhonda-willers
- Red Wing Arts Clay & Creative Center 436 West 3rd Street Red Wing, MN 55066 (map)
What We Will Do:
Dive into hand-built clay bowls and terra sigillata surface decorating with Rhonda Willers! On day one of this two-day workshop, you’ll learn how to use everyday objects, clay bisque molds, and paper patterns to create bowls from clay. On day two, you’ll discover how to decorate the surfaces with terra sigillatas, a refined clay slip, using brush and sgraffito techniques. An introductory lesson on how to make your own terra sigillatas will be shared and demonstrated during the workshop!
This workshop is ideal for beginners to advanced students. Having some clay experience, such as one previous clay class, is helpful but not required.
Class information:
Nov 15-16 from 10 am-3 pm each day
Teaching artist: Rhonda Willers
Level: Beginner - Intermediate - Advanced
Age: 16+
Class size: 10-20
Participation fee: $295
Art medium: Ceramic
Register: https://redwingarts.org/calendar-of-events/2025/11/15-16/decorative-bowl-making-with-rhonda-willers
RESCHEDULING :|: CANCELED for 2025
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Concept
How do we pay homage to that which has changed us, inspired us, or comforted us? This workshop encourages students to consider pivotal impacts in their lives and the visual forms they could create to honor them. Through creative activities and writing, students develop and create forms in clay and additional materials. Surfaces are decorated with terra sigillatas and fired in a low-fire soda and electric kilns. Technical aspects of making and using terra sigillatas are a key part of the workshop. The workshop covers a variety of making techniques including bisque molds, slab-building, and paper patterns. Students may use the potter’s wheel to create objects as well. Vessels and sculptures are made the first week with soda firing and assembly the second week.
Media & Techniques
Earthenware, terra sigillata, soda, hand-building, wheel-throwing, surface decoration, electric firing, soda firing to cones 04/03
Register Here: https://www.andersonranch.org/workshops/workshop/paying-homage-low-fire-soda-fired-terra-sigillata-surfaces-c1521-25/
Dates: RESCHEDULING :|: CANCELED for 2025
Level: 2 and 3, having some clay experience is helpful
Class Size: limited
Rhonda Willers, "Warm Meteoroid," earthenware, terra sigillata, glaze, low-fire soda fired cone 03 oxidation