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Visiting Artist Series 
Work with and learn from some of today's most significant working artists.

Each year, the Visiting Artist Series brings several notable artists to the League to teach master classes, which supplement existing ongoing classes and workshops. This extraordinary opportunity allows students and artists from the community to work with and learn from some of today’s most significant working artists. The League is indebted to the visionary support of the Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation and the advisory committee.
 


JOHN BALISTRERI | CERAMICS

www.johnbalistreriartist.com


John Balistreri is an American ceramic artist best known for his large-scale sculptures. Balisteri grew up in Thornton, Colorado, where he worked as an artist and built a large anagama kiln. From 1998 to 2002, he worked with Peter Voulkos, assisting in creating and firing sculptures. Later, Balistreri toured and studied ceramics in China, Japan and Korea. He is currently Professor of Art and the head of the ceramic art program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio where his research team is bridging the gap between art and industry, leading the world in utilizing 3D rapid prototyping technology to create unique ceramic objects.
MASTER CLASS
Large-Scale Ceramic Sculpture:
Demonstration & Discussion


Ability: All levels

Balistreri will demonstrate a variety of strategies and his techniques for making large-scale work that will include the potter’s wheel and a wide variety of hand-building techniques. Discussion will include his incorporation of 3D printing technologies into his ceramic work and his philosophy on and application of wood firing techniques.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm | August 23–25, 2013
Register by 8/19

$150 for members for 3 days, $195 for non-members


Non-members, please call 303-778-6990 to register.



PUBLIC LECTURE
Thursday, August 22, 2013 | 6:30 pm
$5 for members, $10 for non-members

Non-members, please call 303-778-6990 to register.

Thank you to our series sponsor!

 
     

Some of our past visiting artists have included:

  • Jenny Morgan, who lectured and taught a Master Class on the psychological self-portrait.
  • Bonnie Stahlecker, who brought her bookmaking techniques to ASLD in partnership with the Guild of Bookworkers, and lectured on the evolution of her books to sculpture.
  • Patrick Horsley, who demonstrated his techniques in thrown and altered ceramic forms.
  • Bill Amundson, who lectured on his creative process and led a master class in drawing.
  • Jenny Dubnau, who taught a master class and lectured on her creative process in painting psychological portraits.
  • Del Harrow, who led students through exercises and experiments with new and old techniques in stoneware clay and casting slip after an instructor-lead visit to the concurrent Marvelous Mud exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.
  • Matt Brown, who introduced the Japanese Hanga Method in a woodblock printmaking workshop. See also Wood and Water article on Matt's work.
  • Ricardo Mazal, who presented his unique artistic process, which incorporates abstract painting along with digital photography and technology, monotypes, and video. See also Finding Meaning in the Abstract article on Ricardo's work.
  • Jeanette Pasin Sloan, who works in the great still-life tradition of Western art and takes a distinctly modernist approach to design and color.
  • Richard Notkin, whose teapots, ceramic sculptures, and tile murals are visual explorations into social and political commentary.
  • Chinese artist Yang Yang, who came to Denver with the Asian Arts Coordinating Council.
  • We introduced Zimbabwe sculptor Collen Nyanhongo.
  • Also, VSA arts Colorado partnered with us to bring deaf Israeli artist Uzi Buzgalo to the League to present workshops.


Advisory committee: Rachel Basye, Tom Burke, Richard Chanzit, Peter Durst, Colleen Fanning, Ron Hicks, Homare Ikeda, Ron Judish, Carol Levin, Gayla Lemke, Emilio Lobato, Mark Lunning, Katharine Smith-Warren, Sharon Walsh and Jordan Wolfson


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