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Silkscreen Printing on Clay with Ruth McKinney Burket and Lora Shelley
November 19, 2022
| $120 – $138Event Navigation
Instructor: Ruth McKinney Burket and Lora Shelley
Class Type: One-Day Workshop
Skill Level: All Levels
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Dates: Saturday, November 19
This class is currently full. Please email [email protected] to be placed on the waitlist.
For over five years Ruth McKinney Burket and Lora Shelley have been using silkscreen to collaborate on playful bowl designs for the WSW Chili Bowl Fest. They will be co-teaching this Saturday workshop and sharing what they’ve learned about silkscreen printing for clay. Students will be introduced to the basics of creating and transferring drawings through silkscreen onto a clay surface. There will be two three hour sessions with an hour lunch break. In the morning session, participants will work with Ruth and learn how to coat and expose screens of their black and white images and drawings, hand mix ceramic ink in various colors, and print their images onto newsprint. Lora will guide the second half of the class and focus on a number of ways to transfer the printed images onto the wet clay. Students will be introduced to a couple of the instructor’s favorite decorating techniques to complete the image.
$120.00 members/$138.00 non-members. Registration is online only, and is first come first serve. To inquire about the wait list call WSW at (845) 658-9133 or email [email protected].
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Artists
Ruth McKinney Burket
Ruth graduated with her MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2011. She lives and works in the Hudson Valley NY where she manages the ceramic studio at Women’s Studio Workshop. Her favorite use of silkscreen transfers is as a catalyst for collaboration. For 12 years Ruth has been collecting the drawings of local artists, WSW residents, and studio interns and turning them into silkscreen transfers to produce collaborative surface decorations for the annual Chili Bowl Fest fundraiser. Most recently she has been printing handwritten food recipes and children’s drawings from around the world onto plates in her participatory social art project Feast For All Peoples. You can learn more about Ruth’s work on instagram at @ruth_mckinney_burket and her project website at feastforallpeoples.com .
Lora Shelley
Lora Shelley is primarily a painter and printmaker with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Illustration. With RISD’s European Honors Program, Lora spent a year abroad studying in Rome, Italy. Lora’s work can be found in private collections across the U.S. and abroad, as far as Africa, Australia and France.
Lora heard the siren call of clay 16 years ago and has incorporated it into her practice along with painting and printmaking. Working in ceramics has offered Lora the opportunity to move into the third dimension as she uses her unique eye to bring her 2D characters to life.
You can learn more about Lora’s work at lorashelley.com and instagram @lorashelley