What types of art do you specialize in?

We specialize in contemporary ceramics from the 1950s onward, including clay and porcelain sculptures.

Do you offer collection services?

Yes, we work with private collectors and artist archives to organize, document, and appraise ceramic art collections for deacquisition or placement.

Can you help with exhibition development?

Absolutely, we collaborate with museums and cultural institutions to develop and present ceramic art exhibitions.

Do you provide touring programs?

Yes, we curate and organize touring exhibitions for contemporary ceramic artists.

What are legacy projects?

Legacy projects include customized services for artists, such as retrospective catalogs, exhibitions, and museum acquisitions.

Isabel Twanmo

Aug

2024

CRISTINA CÓRDOVA | 5-Day Virtual Live Course: Full Standing Figure | Oct 8-12 Nov 8th – 10, 2024

CRISTINA CÓRDOVA | 5-Day Virtual Live Course: Full Standing Figure

October 9-12 (Wednesday-Saturday) and November 10, 2024 (SUNDAY)

10 am – 2 pm / All levels

Limited spaces available

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ABOUT THE EVENT

I am excited to share this new cycle of my classic full-figure program. Throughout 4 days of live demonstrations and daily feedback reinforced by prerecorded material, students will create a clay figure out of slabs using a simple armature and patterns.

Students will then work independently throughout the rest of the month with ongoing e-mail support before reconvening for an online show and tell.

The full set of videos is yours to keep forever. All patterns and diagrams will be available to download through 2024. All live demos will be pre-recorded if you can’t make the class.

What you’ll get: encouragement, guidance and accountability

You will receive a virtual kit with scaled photographic views, patterns for the entire body, additional references, and diagrams to support your sculpting for three different female figures.
More than 25 concise, pre-recorded video tutorials on the entire figure to reinforce live demonstrations, yours to keep forever.
14 hours of live demonstrations and co-sculpting via Zoom (Wednesday-Saturday)
Daily personalized feedback from Cristina on your progress to troubleshoot and answer any questions.
Additional feedback via photos (see below) during the independent work period (October 12- November 10).

How this will work

Upon enrollment, you will have access to a list of tools and supplies needed to build your armature, prepare your patterns and references and get ready for the first day of class.

Although we include tiled versions of the reference posters we recommend taking the references folder to your local print shop to have the posters printed in large format printers without the need for tiling. Use the measurement keys in each image to make sure all are printed at the right size!

*Tiled images are PDF documents that break down a large image into standard printer size units, allowing you to print and puzzle them together at home.

BONUS MATERIAL!

In addition to the original set of patterns for Figure A (see right), I will be offering patterns and reference materials to sculpt 2 additional models (B & C). All of these are yours to keep and try as you grasp the technique. Please note that although the pre-recorded material and written instructions reflect the construction of different (yet similar) standing figure the techniques and construction protocols are exactly the same for the development of all the figures utilizing the different sets of patterns and photographic references.

I will be demonstrating the construction of FIGURE C throughout our live Zoom meetings. You are free to sculpt and receive live feedback on any of the three model options you choose to work on throughout our time together.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP HERE

MORE ON CRISTINA CÓRDOVA

Puerto Rican, b. 1976, Boston, MA
lives and works in Penland, NC

Native to Puerto Rico, Cristina Córdova creates figurative compositions that explore the boundary between the materiality of an object and our involuntary dialogues with the self-referential. Images captured through the lens of a Latin American upbringing question socio-cultural notions of gender, race, beauty, and power. Córdova has received numerous grants including the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Grant, a Virginia Groot Foundation Recognition Grant, several International Association of Art Critics of Puerto Rico awards, and a prestigious United States Artist Fellowship award in 2015.

Córdova has had solo exhibitions at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, (Alfred, NY), and her work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, (Washington, DC), Colección Acosta de San Juan Puerto Rico, (San Juan, PR), the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, (Charlotte, NC), and Museum of Contemporary Art, (San Juan, PR). In 1998, Córdova completed her BA at the University of Puerto Rico, and she received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2002. Córdova is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

Aug

2024

SERGEI ISUPOV | Workshop & Demonstration | NOV 8th – 10th, 2024

SERGEI ISUPOV | Workshop & Demonstration

November 8th – 10th, 2024

During the 2024 Hilltown 6 Open Studio Tour

ABOUT THE EVENT

Sergei Isupov will present a 3-day demonstration and hands-on workshop at Project Art. Isupov’s ceramic sculptures on view in the gallery at Project Art trace his career with works made in studios throughout the world (Estonia, Hungary, and in the USA) and date from 1990 – present.

$400 per person
Limited to 20 participants

Registration opens September 15th, 2024

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The Ferrin Contemporary Showroom will also be open for guests with ceramic works from represented artists.

For more information about HOST, visit the Hilltown Arts Alliance website.

MORE ON SERGEI ISUPOV

$400 per person
Limited to 20 participants

Registration opens September 15th, 2024

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PROJECT ART NEWSLETTER

The Ferrin Contemporary Showroom will also be open for guests with ceramic works from represented artists.

For more information about HOST, visit the Hilltown Arts Alliance website.

Aug

2024

VISIT US | FALL 2024 SEASON ANNOUNCE

Project Art, Cummington, MA

ON VIEW AT FERRIN CONTEMPORARY
FALL 2024

A year ago, Ferrin Contemporary left behind our white-box gallery on the MASS MoCA campus to co-locate the gallery with our offices, library and archives all in one location. Well into our fifth decade working with contemporary ceramic art, Ferrin Contemporary is building on a foundation of curated exhibitions and ongoing projects that were incubated during the nine years we were embedded in the Northern Berkshire museum community. We are now settled in and open to the public at Project Art in Cummington, MA for regularly scheduled events and by appointment. When we left North Adams we turned our attention to focus on projects involving artists, collectors and collections using our new found flexibility to travel and work remotely, something we could not do only a few short years ago.

Established in 2006, Project Art began as a live-work center for ceramic arts in a renovated 19th century former Mill building.

Our offices have coexisted with the studios where resident and visiting artists produce work, offer in person and virtual workshops and private instruction. Grant funding from the Cummington Cultural District, Massachusetts Cultural Council and Hilltown CDC provided financial and technical support to expand our programs and create public sculpture visible to all from Main Street. Our community classes are offered to the general public as well as master level workshops offered to artists and educators. Short term residencies are available for artists, scholars, authors, curators, and critics focused on ceramics.

Located in a rural small town on the banks of the Westfield River, Project Art is also home to gallery director Leslie Ferrin and Project Art co-founders and artists Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnaments. In 2024, June Ferrin’s cozy house and artist studio was added to the compound and made available for short term projects. Now combined, the buildings are surrounded by beautiful gardens June designed and home to eight chickens and active wildlife along the river.

The decision to leave the satellite gallery provided Ferrin Contemporary with newfound flexibility to adapt and focus on our primary mission and priority: to support artists to make new works. Without a traditional gallery space to manage, Ferrin Contemporary extended its reach to the wider world through curated exhibitions and specific projects on behalf of a core group of artists. Not only could our team attend and support more events and openings for our represented artists, but we were also able to offer and update the many curated group exhibitions in collaboration with institutions and commercial galleries. This past March, we brought our 2022 exhibition, Our America/Whose America?, to the Valentine Museum in Richmond, VA. The exhibition, installed in the Museum’s historic Wickham House on period furniture, overlapped with the NCECA Conference, ushering in a new wave of support and context for our gallery artists on view. Paul Scott’s New American Scenery traveled north to Shelburne Museum in Vermont where Paul was commissioned to create a new work. This piece was based on ideas developed during on-site research in the first of Shelburne Museum’s artist-activated “interventions” series.

We look forward to the opportunities currently in development at institutions in the USA and abroad, and invite you to visit us to see selected works from various projects. On view in our Summer gallery, we currently have Mara Superior’s newest works addressing pressing social and environmental issues, Jacqueline Bishop’s The Narratives of Migration and The Keeper of All The Secrets, and new work from Sergei Isupov’s recent solo exhibition, Alliances.

As you make your Fall plans, we invite you to visit Ferrin Contemporary at Project Art to tour our exhibition spaces and gardens, plan an itinerary to visit nearby studios, attend a workshop at Project Art, and explore possibilities for ceramic based projects. Email info@ferrincontemporary.com to schedule a day/time to tour, and read on to learn more about our artists currently on view.

We look forward to seeing you soon,

The Ferrin Contemporary Team

Current installations from Ferrin Contemporary at Project Art

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Jul

2024

Renowned British artist Paul Scott on view at Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum

July 20, 2024

Shelburne Museum presents the work of renowned British artist Paul Scott in the exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware by Paul Scott that includes provocative reinterpretations of 19th-century transferware from Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection along with a work commissioned for the exhibition.

“Exhibiting contemporary work that is inspired or influenced by the collections is a longstanding tradition at Shelburne,” said Kory Rogers, Francie and John Downing Senior Curator of American Art. “Paul Scott’s wry way of using transferware, a major part of Shelburne’s decorative arts collection, as a medium for social commentary often delivered with a sense of humor, is ingenious, and picks up on a thread seen throughout Shelburne’s collections.”

Scott transforms his medium, commercially produced English and American ceramic plates, with his signature subversive imagery and insightful, and often ironic, commentary on both historic and contemporary issues. His work references traditional porcelain designs developed by late 18th-century English artisans, such as the Willow pattern or Spode’s Blue Italian.

Inquire about Available Works HERE

May

2024

PAUL SCOTT | Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin

Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, (Sampler Jug No:10), Shelburne & Sugar. Transfer print collage on pearlware jug with platinum lustre. Paul Scott 2024. 360mm x 390mm x 290mm. Shelburne Museum Collection.

PAUL SCOTT in the US
Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin

In fall 2012, Leslie Ferrin and Paul Scott met for the first time in Adelaide, Australia as presenters at the Australian Ceramics Triennale Subversive Clay. It was their shared interest in printed ceramics, and one particular plate that brought them together. Paul, well established, internationally known as an artist, educator, scholar and author of several books (including Ceramics and Print ) was introduced by artist Stephen Bowers to Leslie, dealer and specialist in contemporary ceramics. Paul was holding a proof copy of his book Horizon: Transferware And Contemporary Ceramics, developed from an exhibition at National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway. Within it was an image of a souvenir plate featuring V iews of the Mohawk Trail and Hairpin Turn(detail below). Leslie, also a collector of souvenir plates, promptly invited him to visit the site, close to Ferrin Contemporary and Project Art in Western Massachusetts.

A year after that serendipitous meeting, Paul was to be a visiting artist at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. They began planning an itinerary to meet with museum curators exploring museum collections of 19th century transferware, and to visit Project Art, later to become his part time US studio. The work he created in 2013 reflected this new American research and featured images from Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York. This American Scenery series debuted at the New York Ceramics Fair, immediately attracting the attention of a number of museums that acquired his work for their permanent collections. The Alturas Foundation also bought works and later provided funding for a multi year artist residency in the US. Initially guided by the images depicted in the historic transferware, Paul traveled to cities, explored natural landscapes, met collaborators and produced a substantive body of work New American Scenery. First shown in 2019 in the newly renovated porcelain room at RISD Museum, the exhibition traveled next to Albany Institute of History & Art in 2022. Selected works were featured in exhibitions at other locations in the US and UK, with four iterations open now in the USA.

In 2024, we are pleased to share Paul Scott’s newest commissioned work “Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, (Sampler Jug No:10), Shelburne & Sugar”, featured above as the centerpiece of his solo exhibition at the Shelburne Museum curated by Kory Rogers – CONFECTED, BORROWED & BLUE: TRANSFERWARE BY PAUL SCOTT.

Leslie Ferrin, director, Ferrin Contemporary

MORE ABOUT "CONFECTED, BORROWED, & BLUE"

MORE ABOUT PAUL SCOTT

“You can roam where fancy leads you Over hill and dale
But you haven’t seen America
‘Till you’ve seen the Mohawk Trail.”

SEE PAUL SCOTT IN PERSON:

Public Artist Talk

June 7th, 2024 | 3pm
Free with Museum Admission
Shelburne Museum
Auditorium, Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education

Join Shelburne Museum as artist, author, curator, and gardener Paul Scott discusses his artistic practice, which includes provocative reinterpretations of 19th-century transferware. Scott will pay special attention to the work he produced for the 2024 Shelburne Museum exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware by Paul Scott.

Talk will last approximately 45 to 60 minutes, followed by an audience Q & A. The Museum will remain open until 7:30 p.m., allowing attendees time to visit the exhibition after the talk.

Study Day with American Ceramics Circle

June 7, 2024 | 10 – 5pm
Fees: $50 for members; $60 for guests
(admission and lunch are included)
Limited to 20

Join the American Ceramics Circle for a day of private, curator-led tours and programs at Shelburne Museum to explore the ceramic collections and a private tour of “Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware” with the artist Paul Scott.

PAUL SCOTT ON VIEW & UPCOMING IN THE US | 2024

RIVERS FLOW / ARTISTS CONNECT

Group Exhibition

featuring PAUL SCOTT & COURTNEY M. LEONARD, JASON WALKER

American artists from the 1820s to the present day explore and illuminate our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant waterways, such as the Hudson River, the Susquehanna, and the Missouri, as well as symbolic representations.

on view through September 1, 2024
Hudson River Museum
Yonkers, NY

CLAYSCAPES

Group Exhibition

featuring PAUL SCOTT, RAYMON ELOZUA, CAROLINE SLOTTE, & CRISTINA CÓRDOVA

Clayscapes is a tribute to clay’s ubiquitous presence in our lives, and to the powerful metaphorical and spiritual role that it can play.

on view now through October 20, 2024
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY

PAUL SCOTT AT THE ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT GALLERY

Solo Installation

on view now through December 31, 2024
Albany International Airport Gallery
Terminal A
737 Albany Shaker Rd
Albany, NY

50 YEARS IN THE MAKING – ALUMNI E XHIBITION

Group Exhibition

Featuring Paul Scott & Sergei Isupov

This Alumni Exhibition showcases artwork to reflect the current practice of the over 150 artist who have participated in The Clay Studio’s Resident Artist Program, Guest Artist Program, and Associate Artist Program over the 50 years since its founding.

on view June 13th through Sep 1st, 2024
The Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA

ARTIST NEWS

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY
now located at ProjectArt at 54 Main Street in Cummington, MAOpen by appointment Winter – Spring.
Contact us to arrange a visit in person or by zoom
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May

2024

Cristina Córdova Awarded The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation 2024 Award in Craft

Cristina Córdova Awarded The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation
2024 Award in Craft

Five visionary artists and craftspeople receive $100,000 each in unrestricted funding

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In the Maxwell/Hanrahan Awards in Craft, we recognize award winners for their unique and visionary approach to material-based practice, stewardship of cultural traditions, and craft’s potential to connect people, places and ideas.

Exploration and insight require time and commitment. Through this award, the Foundation seeks to make both possible for devoted craftspeople and artists who strive to express what they see and experience in the world through their engagement with material. We provide groundbreaking support for practitioners who are challenging and reimagining our collective understanding of craft as a medium and practice — and doing so at critical junctures in their careers. These are one-time, unrestricted awards intended to amplify the voices and work of each craftsperson and give them time and funding as they grow in their careers and propel their work forward. We recognize that arts funding, especially for craftspeople, is lacking in the US, and we encourage others to commit to these fields.

The award’s newest cohort features recipients whose work spans clay, glass, stone and wood, among other media. Their practices draw upon a range of artistic traditions as well as ecological, personal and social influences, representing the multifaceted realities of contemporary craft. The awards committee selected winners for their visionary approaches to material-based practice, their potential to make significant contributions to their craft in the future and the potential for this award to provide momentum at a critical junctures in their work. We aim to recognize the vibrancy of the field and the importance of these artists’ varied, hands-on explorations of cultural heritage, emerging technologies, materials and trades, and the intersections between them.

The Foundation partnered with United States Artists to administer the program. Award-winner selection panelists included Sarah Darro, curator and exhibitions director of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Leslie Noell, creative director at Penland School of Craft; Phillip Smith, assistant professor of architecture at the American College of the Building Arts; and Leo Tecosky, glass blower and 2023 Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft awardee.

Cristina Córdova is a ceramic sculptor whose work is influenced by the rich creative heritage of the Caribbean. Using clay to give voice to regional stories and aesthetic inquiries, Córdova strives to honor and innovate within this ceramic lineage, expanding collective creative language.

More about Cristina Córdova HERE

View the Press Release HERE

May

2024

ARTIST NEWS | PAUL SCOTT

PAUL SCOTT
on view in the US

PAUL SCOTT IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Leslie Ferrin, director, Ferrin Contemporary

“You can roam where fancy leads you Over hill and dale
But you haven’t seen America
‘Till you’ve seen the Mohawk Trail.”

Public Artist Talk

June 7th, 2024 | 3pm
Free with Museum Admission
Shelburne Museum
Auditorium, Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education

Join us as artist, author, curator, and gardener Paul Scott discusses his artistic practice, which includes provocative reinterpretations of 19th-century transferware. Scott will pay special attention to the work he produced for the 2024 Shelburne Museum exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware by Paul Scott.

Talk will last approximately 45 to 60 minutes, followed by an audience Q & A. The Museum will remain open until 7:30 p.m., allowing attendees time to visit the exhibition after the talk.

Study Day with American Ceramics Circle

June 7, 2024 | 10 – 5pm
Fees: $50 for members; $60 for guests
(admission and lunch are included)
Limited to 20

MORE ON VIEW & UPCOMING

RIVERS FLOW / ARTISTS CONNECT

Group Exhibition

featuring PAUL SCOTT & COURTNEY M. LEONARD, JASON WALKER

on view through September 1, 2024
Hudson River Museum
Yonkers, NY

CLAYSCAPES

Group Exhibition

featuring PAUL SCOTT, RAYMON ELOZUA, CAROLINE SLOTTE, & CRISTINA CÓRDOVA

Clayscapes is a tribute to clay’s ubiquitous presence in our lives, and to the powerful metaphorical and spiritual role that it can play.

on view now through October 20, 2024
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY

PAUL SCOTT AT THE ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT GALLERY

Solo Installation

on view now through December 31, 2024
Albany International Airport Gallery
Terminal A
737 Albany Shaker Rd
Albany, NY

50 YEARS IN THE MAKING – ALUMNI E XHIBITION

Group Exhibition

Featuring Paul Scott & Sergei Isupov

on view June 13th through Sep 1st, 2024
The Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA

ARTIST NEWS

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY
now located at ProjectArt at 54 Main Street in Cummington, MAOpen by appointment Winter – Spring.
Contact us to arrange a visit in person or by zoom
info@ferrincontemporary.com

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Apr

2024

Sergei Isupov & Kadri Pärnamets in CLAYTOPIA Summer Festival | Guldagergaard, Skælskør, Denmark

Sergei Isupov & Kadri Pärnamets in

Claytopia is Guldagergaard’s initiative geared towards engaging the public, offering a unique space within the beautiful park surrounding Guldagergaard.

Among Claytopia’s activities are outdoor art exhibitions, concerts, discussion salons, and a design boutique.

Claytopia at Guldagergaard
Heilmannsvej 31 A
DK-4230 Skælskør, Denmark

Claytopia

At Guldagergaard | Skælskør, Denmark | July 10 through August 10, 2024

KADRI PÄRNAMETS FIRE SCULPTURE

In 2022, Kadri Pärnamets’ Choreography of Water was exhibited at Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA. The solo exhibition cast the gallery in a sea of hand-built porcelain cups, vases, and cloud forms to explore earth’s most precious resource: water. In Summer 2024, Kadri Pärnamets returned to this idea of water through her newest and largest endeavor to date: a 7+ foot fire sculpture.

On July 9th, the fire sculpture was fired via a “petal kiln”– a stand-alone, reusable kiln designed to open like flower petals – fabricated by friend and master kiln-maker, Andres Allik. The monumental work was unveiled in its final form at Guldagergaard’s Summer festival, Claytopia.

ABOUT THE FIRE SCULPTURE

Having displayed a fire sculpture made by Kadri’s husband, Sergei Isupov, years prior, the Claytopia team approached Kadri in 2023 to commission one of her own. Normally working in porcelain, slip, and glaze on smaller scales, this fire sculpture differs greatly from Kadri’s past works. The sculpture was built using stoneware clay, which includes higher amounts of grog (raw, crushed materials containing silica and alumina), resulting in a more rough, textured medium. As it fires, the clay shrinks more than 10%, and any glazes applied to the clay body will produce darker hues than if applied to porcelain. The changing and precarious nature of these materials adds numerous unpredictable factors, which are only disclosed upon removal from the kiln. These factors directly connect to the larger ideas behind Kadri’s past work: testing life’s constant, unpredictable ups and downs and how we move through and with them.

As Kadri contemplates this body of work and what it means to her, she considers the physical and figurative flows of energy and matter in her personal life, her creative process, and the greater push and pulls occurring in the world:

“Everywhere we are surrounded by water, but there are different seas on all sides of us. The seas back home are completely different from the oceans here in the US. Some are calm, some appear scary. Even though it’s all the same water, its characteristics are completely different depending on where you stand.

With so many crazy events happening in the world, on our changing planet, we need ways to ground ourselves. On the physiological level, our moods and ideas change constantly, affecting our day-to-day lives and the people around us. We often need a break from the waves despite the constant movement. Even when the waves are calm, there is still motion, a continuous ebb and flow. My smaller wave forms speak to this feeling of the “sea”; the changing tide, the lows and highs, the stillness and turbulence. Waves themselves move and interact differently, and not just by themselves, but by much larger, planetary forces beyond their control. They, like us, are knocked over, moved, and forced to interact and change with each new moment. My fire sculpture represents the grounding force that keeps us moving through this.”

The fire sculpture was built on-site, in situ, at Guldagergaard over multiple days. The Guldagergaard grounds became her studio, with the sculpture exposed to nature’s changing conditions. The bulbous, biomorphic contours Kadri included in the fire sculpture form reference motifs seen on her cups, vases, and cloud forms. She’s included horizontal line gestures through the middle of the piece to represent the coalescence of sea to sky, and the abrupt clashes and waning between waves. As she composed her fire sculpture, Kadri expected the contours, ideas, and intentions to shift as she worked. She had to work quickly, engaging her full strength of skill and technique to problem solve as the material dried and reacted to its outdoor environment. This unpredictability informed and dictated how the piece evolved in its physical qualities, in conversation or contradiction with the forms Kadri imagined in her mind. She encourages the viewer to contemplate their own moments of change, grounding forces, melodies and harmonies in their own lives.

EVENTS & PROGRAMMING

SERGEI ISUPOV: EXPLORING THE SCULPTED FIGURE AND THE PAINTED SURFACE

July 4-5, 2024

Join internationally acclaimed sculptor Sergei Isupov for a two day workshop exploring the sculpted figure in clay and the painted surface – from the development of ideas to the materialization of form.

The workshop combines demonstrations with hands-on active studio time and one-on-one instruction. Isupov will lead students through demonstrations and include techniques of slab construction, underglaze painting, and glaze application as the three-dimensional sculpture serves as a canvas for narrative painting.

The workshop runs from 10 am to 5 pm both days.

Day 1 – Demonstration of slab construction and preparation of painting surface using simple tools
10 am to 1 pm: Demonstration of slab construction
1 pm to 2 pm: Lunch
2 pm to 5 pm: Participants sculpt their own forms with Isupov’s help and consultations.

Day 2 – Demonstration of underglaze stain and glaze application with an emphasis on using fine brushes to create clean lines
10 am to 12 pm: Demonstration of surface preparation, use of tools and brushes for underglaze painting, discussion of development of narrative.
12 pm to 1 pm: Lunch
2 pm to 5 pm: Participants use these techniques on their own sculptures with Isupov’s consultation.

Language:
English

Price: 2950 DKK

Meals and Drinks:
Throughout the workshop days an electric kettle, coffee and fine teas are available at your disposal.
Meals are not included, but we are providing access to a fully equipped kitchen. It is also possible to order breakfasts and/or lunches before hand:

Breakfast bag: Organic bread from the local bakery, yogurt, cheese, jam and orange juice. Price: 85 DKK
Lunch pack: Fresh mixed salad and a serving of bread. Price: 85 DKK

Accommodation during the Workshop:
It is possible to rent a room at Guldagergaard for 300 DKK per night (when available)

Add on: Short-term Residency Option
Guldagergaard offers the possibility for Workshop participants to extend their Workshop stay with a one-week residency after the Workshop for additional price of 2500 DKK. This price includes access to studio facilities and accommodation for one week. It does not cover additional firings and materials.
To reserve a short-term residency, please send an e-mail to: mette@ceramic.dk.

REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP HERE

Apr

2024

Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnamets in Small Favors 2024 at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Sergei Isupov and
Kadri Pärnamets in

The 50th anniversary edition of Small Favors presents almost 500 small artworks displayed in 4-inch cubes. In the exhibition you will find big ideas, individuality, and material awareness. Some artists were invited, while others were selected from an applicant pool of over 1,000. To celebrate that this truly is an exhibition for everyone, the call was extended to artists using other media to create their art, including wood, metal, glass, fiber, paper, and paint. The majority of the works are examples of small ceramic artworks that range from tiny mugs to intricate sculptures.

Artists represented in Small Favors range from the most established ceramic artists in the field, to young artists and students new to the material. Small Favors engages artists’ creativity in new and exciting ways with the challenge of making art on a very small scale. Some create works in their usual style, but at a reduced scale. Others use it as an opportunity to experiment and break away from what they create in their daily studio practice.

This range of artists allows us to present works in a broad price range, from $35 to $4,500. We hope that this empowers people to become collectors, as well as helping established collectors continue to support artists.

Small Favors 2024

At The Clay Studio | Philadelphia, PA | April 11 – June 2, 2024

Mar

2024

Shinnecock artist Courtney M. Leonard explores a connection made with a right whale held in the scientific collection at UMass Amherst | The Berkshire Eagle

Shinnecock artist Courtney M. Leonard explores a connection made with a right whale held in the scientific collection at UMass Amherst

The Berkshire Eagle

By Jennifer Huberdeau

Mar 15, 2024

AMHERST — A single whalebone sits perched atop two black poles in the middle of “Courtney M. Leonard: Breach: Logbook 24 | Staccato,” in the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst.

A frothy, bubbling patch in the middle of the rib bone marks the spot where it fractured and healed. The healed bone is evidence that this female North American right whale, Staccato, had survived being hit by a shipping vessel. Years later, another, similar collision would fracture her mandible, cause internal bleeding and days later, end her life.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

More about Courtney M. Leonard HERE

View Courtney M. Leonard BREACH: Logbook 24 | STACCATO HERE

INQUIRE about Available Works HERE

CRISTINA CÓRDOVA | 5-Day Virtual Live Course: Full Standing Figure

ABOUT THE EVENT

How this will work

BONUS MATERIAL!

MORE ON CRISTINA CÓRDOVA

SERGEI ISUPOV | Workshop & Demonstration

November 8th – 10th, 2024

During the 2024 Hilltown 6 Open Studio Tour

ABOUT THE EVENT

MORE ON SERGEI ISUPOV

ON VIEW AT FERRIN CONTEMPORARY FALL 2024

PAUL SCOTT in the US Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin

SEE PAUL SCOTT IN PERSON:

PAUL SCOTT ON VIEW & UPCOMING IN THE US | 2024

PAUL SCOTT on view in the US

PAUL SCOTT IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Sergei Isupov & Kadri Pärnamets in

More on the Exhibition HERE

More on Sergei Isupov HERE

More on Kadri Pärnamets HERE

At Guldagergaard | Skælskør, Denmark | July 10 through August 10, 2024

KADRI PÄRNAMETS FIRE SCULPTURE

ABOUT THE FIRE SCULPTURE

EVENTS & PROGRAMMING

SERGEI ISUPOV: EXPLORING THE SCULPTED FIGURE AND THE PAINTED SURFACE

Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnamets in

More on the Exhibition HERE

More on Sergei Isupov HERE

More on Kadri Pärnamets HERE

At The Clay Studio | Philadelphia, PA | April 11 – June 2, 2024

Shinnecock artist Courtney M. Leonard explores a connection made with a right whale held in the scientific collection at UMass Amherst

ON VIEW AT FERRIN CONTEMPORARY
FALL 2024

PAUL SCOTT in the US
Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin

PAUL SCOTT
on view in the US

Sergei Isupov and
Kadri Pärnamets in