DATE: Sunday, June 14, 2026
TIME: 10am–4pm with a half-hour lunch break (brown bag recommended)
LEVEL: Suitable for beginners on up. No experience necessary.
BRING:
PROVIDED:
A stylus to try.
A mid-fire porcelain cup made by the instructor to decorate
OPTIONAL: If you can’t make your own forms for the workshop, pre-order forms from the instructor at a cost of $7 per pound of clay. Mug? Plate? Bowl? Tile? Contact admin@millpondceramicsstudio.com with your desired form. Instructor uses Laguna 15 porcelain (Cone 6) and Laguna 550 porcelain (up to Cone 10 appropriate for woodfire).
In this fast paced and fun 6-hour workshop, we will focus on the communication side of visual art, learning illustration on clay forms using the ancient technique of sgraffito. After an introduction to the history and uses of this etching process, participants will work on a supplied porcelain cup, getting the hang of the stylus, drawing a white line on a background, and handling dry porcelain without cracking.
For the next part of the workshop, attendees may bring their own bone-dry greenware. These they will prepare, cover in slip, and etch, creating their own striking narrative. There will be plenty of time for discussion, and storytelling.
Tim Christensen’s work is about the ever changing web of relationships that surround us. Individuals make contact to create relationships, relationships collide to create systems. These systems change over time in response to the other systems around them. Tim envisions his world as an infinite collection of active counterparts, individuals symbiotically wriggling and moving and jostling for space and resources. In this sea of systems, of relationships, he sits and tries to untangle it, sits and tries to communicate what he sees changing, being created, or disappearing into the past. This is why he works in our most durable medium, porcelain, and in our longest unbroken historical record, pottery. Tim’s work, functional because it carries information rather than coffee or seeds or whatever, will be understandable to anyone with an eyeball and the ability to think abstractly. His goal is to make work which still speaks clearly in 10,000 years, and more importantly to convey the complexity and richness of the world in which he is most fortunate to live.
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DATE: Sunday, June 14, 2026
TIME: 10am–4pm with a half-hour lunch break (brown bag recommended)
LEVEL: Suitable for beginners on up. No experience necessary.
BRING:
PROVIDED:
A stylus to try.
A mid-fire porcelain cup made by the instructor to decorate
OPTIONAL: If you can’t make your own forms for the workshop, pre-order forms from the instructor at a cost of $7 per pound of clay. Mug? Plate? Bowl? Tile? Contact admin@millpondceramicsstudio.com with your desired form. Instructor uses Laguna 15 porcelain (Cone 6) and Laguna 550 porcelain (up to Cone 10 appropriate for woodfire).
In this fast paced and fun 6-hour workshop, we will focus on the communication side of visual art, learning illustration on clay forms using the ancient technique of sgraffito. After an introduction to the history and uses of this etching process, participants will work on a supplied porcelain cup, getting the hang of the stylus, drawing a white line on a background, and handling dry porcelain without cracking.
For the next part of the workshop, attendees may bring their own bone-dry greenware. These they will prepare, cover in slip, and etch, creating their own striking narrative. There will be plenty of time for discussion, and storytelling.
Tim Christensen’s work is about the ever changing web of relationships that surround us. Individuals make contact to create relationships, relationships collide to create systems. These systems change over time in response to the other systems around them. Tim envisions his world as an infinite collection of active counterparts, individuals symbiotically wriggling and moving and jostling for space and resources. In this sea of systems, of relationships, he sits and tries to untangle it, sits and tries to communicate what he sees changing, being created, or disappearing into the past. This is why he works in our most durable medium, porcelain, and in our longest unbroken historical record, pottery. Tim’s work, functional because it carries information rather than coffee or seeds or whatever, will be understandable to anyone with an eyeball and the ability to think abstractly. His goal is to make work which still speaks clearly in 10,000 years, and more importantly to convey the complexity and richness of the world in which he is most fortunate to live.
Instagram
Website
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