The Expressive Head with Claudia Olds Goldie
Saturday November 15 • 10am-4pm
Sunday November 16 • 10am-1pm
Back by popular demand! In this two-day workshop students will learn how to create the human head and face using a single slab rolled into a cylinder. Working from both the inside and outside of the clay cylinder, students will use modeling, pinching and layering techniques to create an expressive, proportionate, anatomically convincing head. Claudia will demonstrate the techniques she applies to her own sculptural work, as she leads you through this exciting process that reveals the hidden face like a negative slowly developing in the light.
TO BRING: Your own clay body, a minimum of 25 lbs. You can purchase clay via the studio.
FIRING: Unless you are a member of our studio, you are responsible for taking and firing your own work following the workshop. We can fire for a fee. See our paid firing pricing here in our FAQs.
Visit Claudia's Instagram • Visit Claudia's website
Claudia Olds Goldie is a studio artist and educator. She presently teaches figurative ceramics at Harvard University’s Ceramics Program and teaches workshops across the US and in Mexico. She is a 2017 Mass Cultural Council finalist; has received a Kiln God Residency from Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, a residency fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and a nomination for a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas fellowship. She has shown nationally in shows such as the NCECA Biennial in Houston, SOFA Chicago, numerous State of Clay National Juried exhibitions, and “Contemporary Figurative Sculpture” at Santa Fe Clay Gallery. She is represented by Boston Sculptors Gallery, the Wit Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport, Massachusetts. Claudia received her BFA from Boston University College of Visual Arts. She taught sculpture and ceramics for 40 years at the Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her work has been published in The Figure in Clay by Cristina Cordova, 500 Figures in Clay, 500 Figures in Clay Vol. 2 by Nan Smith, Sculpting Clay, and Low Fire: Other Ways to Work in Clay, both by Leon Nigrosh, and in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, and American Craft magazines.
Saturday November 15 • 10am-4pm
Sunday November 16 • 10am-1pm
Back by popular demand! In this two-day workshop students will learn how to create the human head and face using a single slab rolled into a cylinder. Working from both the inside and outside of the clay cylinder, students will use modeling, pinching and layering techniques to create an expressive, proportionate, anatomically convincing head. Claudia will demonstrate the techniques she applies to her own sculptural work, as she leads you through this exciting process that reveals the hidden face like a negative slowly developing in the light.
TO BRING: Your own clay body, a minimum of 25 lbs. You can purchase clay via the studio.
FIRING: Unless you are a member of our studio, you are responsible for taking and firing your own work following the workshop. We can fire for a fee. See our paid firing pricing here in our FAQs.
Visit Claudia's Instagram • Visit Claudia's website
Claudia Olds Goldie is a studio artist and educator. She presently teaches figurative ceramics at Harvard University’s Ceramics Program and teaches workshops across the US and in Mexico. She is a 2017 Mass Cultural Council finalist; has received a Kiln God Residency from Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, a residency fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and a nomination for a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas fellowship. She has shown nationally in shows such as the NCECA Biennial in Houston, SOFA Chicago, numerous State of Clay National Juried exhibitions, and “Contemporary Figurative Sculpture” at Santa Fe Clay Gallery. She is represented by Boston Sculptors Gallery, the Wit Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport, Massachusetts. Claudia received her BFA from Boston University College of Visual Arts. She taught sculpture and ceramics for 40 years at the Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her work has been published in The Figure in Clay by Cristina Cordova, 500 Figures in Clay, 500 Figures in Clay Vol. 2 by Nan Smith, Sculpting Clay, and Low Fire: Other Ways to Work in Clay, both by Leon Nigrosh, and in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, and American Craft magazines.
Saturday November 15 • 10am-4pm
Sunday November 16 • 10am-1pm
Back by popular demand! In this two-day workshop students will learn how to create the human head and face using a single slab rolled into a cylinder. Working from both the inside and outside of the clay cylinder, students will use modeling, pinching and layering techniques to create an expressive, proportionate, anatomically convincing head. Claudia will demonstrate the techniques she applies to her own sculptural work, as she leads you through this exciting process that reveals the hidden face like a negative slowly developing in the light.
TO BRING: Your own clay body, a minimum of 25 lbs. You can purchase clay via the studio.
FIRING: Unless you are a member of our studio, you are responsible for taking and firing your own work following the workshop. We can fire for a fee. See our paid firing pricing here in our FAQs.
Visit Claudia's Instagram • Visit Claudia's website
Claudia Olds Goldie is a studio artist and educator. She presently teaches figurative ceramics at Harvard University’s Ceramics Program and teaches workshops across the US and in Mexico. She is a 2017 Mass Cultural Council finalist; has received a Kiln God Residency from Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, a residency fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and a nomination for a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas fellowship. She has shown nationally in shows such as the NCECA Biennial in Houston, SOFA Chicago, numerous State of Clay National Juried exhibitions, and “Contemporary Figurative Sculpture” at Santa Fe Clay Gallery. She is represented by Boston Sculptors Gallery, the Wit Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Robert Collins Gallery in Rockport, Massachusetts. Claudia received her BFA from Boston University College of Visual Arts. She taught sculpture and ceramics for 40 years at the Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her work has been published in The Figure in Clay by Cristina Cordova, 500 Figures in Clay, 500 Figures in Clay Vol. 2 by Nan Smith, Sculpting Clay, and Low Fire: Other Ways to Work in Clay, both by Leon Nigrosh, and in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, and American Craft magazines.