The Texas Pottery & Sculpture Guild is pleased to offer a Tile Making workshop with instructor Rachel Bates. REGISTER
What you will learn from this workshop
In
this hands on, one-day workshop participants will learn how to make
tiles, stamps, and tile boxes. Rachel will also cover the traditional
art of majolica painting on tile. You will come away knowing the ends
and outs of cutting tiles from slabs, embellishing, stamping, painting
and the marketing aspects of tile making.
About the Instructor
Rachel
Bates is an artist with many irons in the fire. A clay artist for over
25 year with a Fine Arts degree in painting and ceramics. She has been a
ceramic tile artist for most of that time. She has also been involved
with encaustic painting. tile installation, sculpture and wheel
throwing. Her latest passion is music. She performs live singing,
playing guitar and fiddle. She loves to teach and has lots of knowledge
to share.
Workshop Details: The workshop will be held at Cynthia Brinson’s studio in Arlington on November 16th from 9 am until 5 pm The workshop can accommodate a maximum of 12 participants The cost of the workshop is $65 for Guild members and $80 for non-Guild participants Students will need to bring a wareboard 18″ x 18″, old towel, 25 lbs of clay of their choice, joining slip, two pieces of clay canvas 18″ x 18″, stamps and texture tools, favorite brushes and plastic and plastic for covering work 18″ x 18″ There will be a pot luck lunch for which participants will be asked to bring a dish
