Trading Stories Through Tile Making: Hybridizing Printmaking and Clay with Dilara Miller
June 19 - July 24
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Instructor: Dilara Miller
Class Type: Six-week slab building class
Skill Level: All Levels
Time: Thursdays 5 – 7PM
Dates: June 19 – July 24
Make Up Date: July 31
Join us in this 6-week course where students will create a set of their own hand made tiles and learn to translate printmaking techniques to transform clay surfaces. In this class, Dilara Miller will instruct participants in slab building tiles, and guide them in preparing their surface to transfer a repetitive or large scale image over multiple tiles. Attendees will learn how to incorporate sgraffito and intaglio techniques onto their clay surface to create a unique array of tiles that can be puzzled together. Dilara uses these techniques in her own work, drawing inspiration from Byzantine and Ottoman iconography. She utilizes the tiles as novel artifacts, taking rubbings of the tiles to create a remnant of the object. By the end of the workshop students will have a set of fired tiles to keep, and they will also take rubbings of each others’ tiles.
Register today for an outdoor clay adventure! Take advantage of the inspiring golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work on our new and improved studio, our ceramic program is setting up camp on the back deck outside of the silkscreen studio! In case of inclement weather: the outdoor space is shaded in the afternoon and evening and has a covering adequate to provide shelter from light rain.
Artist
Dilara Miller
Dilara Miller is an interdisciplinary artist based between Mersin, Turkey and the Hudson Valley, New York.She received her BFA from The University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA from Northern Illinois University with an emphasis in printmaking and ceramic methods. Dilara’s work critiques and reflects on the social/cultural effects of being a Turkish/American Muslim woman in today’s society. Through referencing antiquities and how they are presented today, she seeks to identify patterns of hierarchies that exist in human history through an eco-feminist lens. Dilara retells mythic Islamic stories to promote healing for women to speak for the ways our bodies metabolize shame, and to form practices of resistance.
Dilara has had her work featured in national and international exhibitions such as the “Woman, Life, Freedom” exhibit in Chicago, Illinois, “ALHAMDU | Muslim Futurism” exhibit in Iowa City, and the 8th International Lithographic Symposium in Tidaholm, Sweden. Her work has also been published in the Mid America Print Council (MAPC Journal) and The Hand Magazine.