Pottery Intensive with Tim Christensen at the Cobscook Community Learning Center


  • January 06, 2015

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The Cobscook Community Learning Center will be the site for a five day Pottery Intensive workshop with Tim Christensen during winter break, Tuesday, February 17  through Sunday, February 22. There will be two workshop sessions each day, which will cover basic techniques: wedging and centering, then move on to collaring and forming, enclosed forms and alternative trimming techniques, throwing big, and finally throwing off the hump and whip-wiring. There will be open studio time all other hours.

Potter and sgraffito artist Tim Christensen lives in a small cabin near the ocean in Roque Bluffs, Maine, “This arrangement allows me to be in very close contact with all of the natural rhythms coursing around us all. The ocean is about 300 yards away and the woods are lush with moss, cedar, spruce and maple trees, and countless birds.” Tim has been making black and white sgraffito pieces since 2003, “I am getting better as I get deeper into this technique. My sculptural background is seeping in, as well as a renewed interest in altering the thrown form.” His work is narrative, with spiritual, often funny, and understandable  illustrations. “I draw on my pieces because it is the best way I know to express what I am thinking about. Working with black and white, I depict the challenge of balancing the needs of the individual with the needs of the community and the wonder and mystery of living in the world we share.”

Tim Christensen has won awards for his work: Best in Ceramics, Thorne-Sagendorf Museum, Keene, NH; Board of Directors Award and Director’s Choice award, Cambridge Art Association, MA; and Best in Show, CraftBoston, World Trade Center, Boston, MA. His work has been shown widely in Maine and the US including University of Southern Maine, Auburn, ME; Blue Hill Fine Craft Show, Blue Hill, ME; Object of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; Coconut Grove Art Fair, Miami, FL; NHAA Currier Museum Annual Show, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester,

NH; The New Aesthetics of Ceramics Invitational, Huntington University, Huntington, IN; and Smithsonian Craft Show, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.  Tim has been the recipient of a grant from the Center For Maine Craft; had a solo show, “Living Close to Land,” at the Libby Museum of Natural History, Wolfeboro, NH;  and been a Featured Artist in Craft Connoisseur Magazine.

Tim is also a fine pottery teacher. He has offered many classes at the CCLC, most recently, he built a potter’s wheel from locally harvested wood, then threw created pieces on it at Ricefest, the CCLC’s American Craft Week event held every October.

The workshop will be at the Cobscook Community Learning Center, 10 Commissary Point Rd, Trescott, ME. Lodgings are available for participants at the CCLC’s newly opened Heartwood Lodge. Meals can be included for a full conference rate.  There are also various options for commuters.  Materials, 100 lbs. of clay per person, will be provided in the workshop fee. For more information or to register for the Pottery Intensive, visit our website: www.cclc.me or call 207-733-2233. 

 

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Valerie Lawson

10 Commissary Point Rd
Robbinston  ME  04652 
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