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Hayne Bayless

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CL0612 May 5, 2012 (10a-5p) Saturday (Ceramics Barn)

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Brookfield Craft Center welcomes master potter Hayne Bayless to our ceramics studio. Spend the day with Hayne and fellow enthusiasts for a hands-on workshop on handbuilding. Students will explore extrusion and slab techniques as they relate to making functional stoneware. Myths will be busted and secrets revealed. Hayne's approach is to let the process show in the work, keeping in mind that by keeping out of clay’s way, the material will reveal its true nature and the results will remain fresh and lively. Learn unconventional forming methods and unusual approaches to surface decoration. Topics will include cutting stencils from Tyvek, colored slip inlay and stretched slabs, liquid latex resist and deer-tail brushes, fashioning tools out of common materials and modifying existing ones to suit specific needs, and how to make custom extruder dies.  A $20 studio/materials fee is due at time of registration and covers a 25 lb. bag of stoneware clay and additional materials. Space is limited, so don't wait to register.

• Hayne Bayless
  
  Hayne is a studio potter in Ivoryton, CT. In college he managed to avoid any academic involvement with clay. He quit a perfectly good job as a newspaper editor in 1992 to make pots, and since then has exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Show nine times and the Minnesota Potters Tour five times. He is represented by galleries including AKAR in Iowa, Ferrin in Massachusetts, Blue Heron in Maine, Crimson Laurel in North Carolina, and Hibberd-McGrath in Colorado. His work is published in Studio Potter magazine, Objects for Use: Handmade by Design by Paul Smith, and Design Language by Tim McCreight. Hayne has taught workshops at Arrowmont, Castle Hill, The Clay Studio, Odyssey Center, Penland, and Shakerag, and has had three residencies at Watershed. In the studio he likes to keep in mind the words of sculptor Constantin Brancusi: "Each material has its own life...we must not try to make materials speak our language, we must go with them to the point where others will understand their language."

Students should bring any tools you already own, and other tools will be provided by BCC for use during the workshop.
The $5 studio/materials fee covers decorating slip and Tyvek.
25 lb. bags of clay are available for purchase at time of registration for $15.