Events + Workshops
Upcoming
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Potters of Madison County
April 13 2024, 9AM - 4PM
12th Annual Potters Market
Marshall High Studios, Marshall, NC -
Influence/d
April 19 - May 31 2024
Exhibition
Martindale Gallery at Queen City Clay, Norwood, OH -
Altering Form & Designing Surface
April 19-21 2024
3 Day Workshop
The Kiln Studio & Gallery, Fairhope, ALIn this three-day workshop potter and instructor Suze Lindsay will work with students to take the pot out of the round, onto the table and explore altered forms with hand-built elements. Students will practice, experiment and play with ideas regarding altercations to wheel thrown pots. Decoration techniques using slips to enhance form will be demonstrated. There will also be a focus on exercises to push and expand design ideas, developing personal imagery. Daily class includes writing and drawing prompts, shared images of historical and contemporary sources that will expand our ideas about functional pots.
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Pottery for the Table
May 17-26 2024
9 Day International Workshop Intensive
Good Hope, JamaicaThis workshop is hosted by Doug Casebeer and David Pinto with visiting artists Margaret Bohls and Suze Lindsay.
Travel to the north coast of Jamaica for a nine-day intensive workshop focused on pottery making techniques and design. The studio we will work in is well equipped and wide open to the tropical breeze. For more information email casebeerartworks@gmail.com or Pintopottery@gmail.com -
Bowl-ing
June 17-21 2024
5 Day Workshop
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Long Beach, NJJoin Suze for this 5 day hands on workshop focusing on bowls that change in size and utility, from small finger bowls, to larger serving bowls, to nesting bowls. Some strategies for making will include investigating what foods and festivities influence their form? We will take pots out of the round, exploring bowl forms on and off the wheel, using altering techniques and hand built slabs. Special attention to feet— turning on the wheel, reductive, and making forms we attach different kinds of feet, additive.
We will explore how to finish surfaces with texture and slip application techniques that will enhance each piece. Sketching and writing exercises, historical source materials, and images will be shared as we explore ideas about mark making on 3D form, and will guide exploration and play. -
Pottery on the Hil
November 15 - 17 2024
2 Day Pottery Sale
Hill Center, Washington DC
Pottery on the Hill is a weekend celebrating functional pottery (that which can be regularly used, such as dinnerware, drinkware, vases, platters, and more) featuring top ceramic artists from across the country. Avid ceramics fans will love the chance to talk with the potters in a casual, fun environment and continue to grow their collections. For those who might just love the pottery, this is a great opportunity to get a jumpstart on shopping for the holidays, giving the special people in your life a gift as unique and one-of-a-kind as they are.
Past Events + Exhibitions
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NCECA
March 20-23 2024
Conference Exhibitions
Richmond, VAThis year I am participating in several exhibitions and events connected with NCECA.
NCECA EXPO: In Tandem Gallery
The Road to Demarest: Antennae Gallery A retrospective of past and present artists from the last 50 years of The Art School at Old Church’s Annual Pottery Show and Sale,
Women Working With Clay: A Shared Purpose: The Valentine
A Field guide to the Birds of Cary Street: Northbank Partners
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Stacked Forms - Going Vertical
February 10 + 11 2024
2 Day Workshop
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MIThis workshop focuses on pottery forms made using thrown and hand-built elements that will be altered and stacked to create vases, pitchers and covered jars. Slip decoration techniques will be demonstrated, along with activities that stretch and explore ideas about imagery and surface enhancement. To enhance ideas for experimentation and play, there will be daily demoes, sketchbook exercises, and images shared of contemporary and historical pottery. Plan to take risks and try new things.
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Not Yet: An Artist’s Oeuvre
February 8 2024 from 6-7PM
Lecture
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MIThis lecture will serve as an overview of Suze Lindsay’s practice as well as an introduction to some of the themes covered in the workshop to follow on February 10th & 11th.
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Expressive Form and Surface
February 8 + 9 2023
Two-Day Demonstration
St. Petersburg College, Clearwater, FLSuze will move between potters wheel and table top, demonstrating a variety of techniques used to create forms that are a combination of thrown and altered components with hand built additions. Surface enhancement using slips, and strategies for decoration will be discussed.
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Tackling the Ceramic Surface: Using Slips on Leather-Hard Pots
Recorded: February 11 2023
Two-Hour demonstration video
Frank Arts Virtual WorkshopsCurious about how to add depth to your glaze surfaces? This 2 hour zoom demonstration will include a variety of approaches to enhance your surfaces; from fluting and roping freshly thrown pots, to techniques used when applying slips to leather hard pieces. There will be discussion and hands on exercises to help determine where to place marks and motifs when decorating 3D objects. (This class was recorded live on Feb 11th 2023, and will be available for one year).
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St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour
May 12 - 14 2023
Pottery Sale
St. Croix, MNThe St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour is an annual gathering of exceptional potters and pottery enthusiasts in the beautiful St. Croix River Valley of Minnesota. The 2023 tour will feature seventy one artists at eight different studios. We hope to see you there!
The studios are a short drive from each other, allowing some or all to be visited in a single day, and within an hour drive of the Twin Cities. Admission is free and open to everyone.
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Voluminous Vessels: Handbuilt Forms from Paper Patterns
June 9-11 2023
Weekend Workshop
Double Island Studio, Green Mountain, NCJoin Suze for a weekend of exploration and play while hand building and decorating volumetric forms. Using your sketchbook and larger drawing paper as a springboard, we will translate drawn shapes into 3D vessels. Use of paper patterns, and drop and drape molds as components, we will focus on developing and sculpting one of a kind vessels. Suze will demonstrate a variety of approaches to surface enhancement, using slips on leather hard clay. Writing , drawing, and sharing of source materials will help participants develop strategies to personalize they work. Firing not included.
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Collaboration: Cultivation
July 16-22 2023
One Week Workshop
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, COHow do we develop and shape our ideas? This session’s wheel throwing class will be collaborating with Margaret Bohls’ hand building class sharing demoes and projects to generate ideas for pottery forms.
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Spruce Pine Potters Market
October 14-15
Two day Pottery Sale
Cross St. Building, Spruce Pine, NCA unique event showcasing this region’s talent in ceramics. The show represents a wide range of aesthetic and stylistic interpretations, from functional to sculptural pieces.
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Wheel to Table: Altered Pots with Handbuilt Components
November 11-12 2023, 10AM-5PM
Two-Day Workshop
The Potter’s Studio, Berkeley, CAThis 2-day, hands-on workshop with Suze Lindsay will focus on taking pots out of the round, combining thrown and hand built elements to create playful functional forms. We’ll explore strategies and techniques used for creating one-of-a-kind vessels. Join Suze for a few days of exploration and play, bringing your sketchbook for writing and drawing exercises that will stretch ideas about 3D form and imagery. Using slips on leather hard clay, we will delve into surface enhancement and how to plan for the marriage of form and surface. Images of historical and contemporary pots will kindle our purpose and intention. Advanced Beginner to Intermediate Wheel-Throwing or Hand-Building skills are required.