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This workshop begins with a Friday evening session to discuss the role of masks in our societies, past and present, and to explore our personal attraction to these "Other Faces." The second and third day of the workshop will be spent viewing inspirational material, designing and creating masks. Workshop participants will learn various techniques to construct and fire masks. The final day of the workshop will take place one week later when the masks are fired.
Anyone called by the Muse to the creative mist is, in my mind, a very special person. One has to know where the edge is located, know all the rules, and then have the guts to ignore it all and ... go for it! Artists, by nature, are inquisitive creatures and enjoy pushing edges, and buttons, and ideas. Somehow, they get a super charge to the ego and heart and mind and spirit when they challenge themselves to try new forms of expression. As an art educator, it is my job to provoke this action and support them through the process. - Kaye Like
About the instructors
Soon Kaye's burnished earthenware sculptures and vessels attracted the attention of private collectors and galleries around the U.S., with the majority of her work represented by the El Prado Gallery in Sedona N.M. In addition to the college program, Kaye's summer workshop series, "Clay Camp," drew participants from the nation and abroad. Kaye's professional career and teaching career continued until she retired from the gallery scene several years ago. When the SRJC program closed in 2010 with the decline of the economy, Kaye reopened her studio to the community as a studio co-op where she still encourages others to meet the Muse.
Bea Acosta specializes in hand built vessels and masks using raku glazes, smolder fire, and/or horsehair for finishes. She has taken classes at Brandybuck Studio through the Santa Rosa Junior Community College. She has also attended classes at the Mendocino Art Center and with Emma Lewis of the Acoma Tribe of New Mexico. She has had several shows at the Dolphin Gallery in Gualala, Sea Ranch Lodge, Blue Canoe in Anchor Bay and City Arts in Point Arena. She is presently a member of the Coast Highway Artist Collective in Point Arena. Her masks can also be viewed at Copy Plus upstairs in the Sundstrom Mall in Gualala.
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The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Old State Highway in Gualala, CA, |
Firing processes such as Raku, horse hair, smolder fire, and oxidation kiln fire will be options. This workshop will be held at Brandybuck Studio, 27001 Ten Mile Road, Point Arena. All tools and materials are included in the $50 materials fee.
Kaye Like, artist / ceramicist / educator, has resided on the Mendocino coast since joining the faculty of Santa Rosa Community College in 1970 to establish coastal community art programs.
When Kaye arrived on the coast her focus was painting and photography, later she developed an interest in clay, sought out master potters with which to perfect her skill. Among those masters are: Blue Corn of San Idlefonso Pueblo N.M.; Lucy, Emma and Dolores Lewis of Acoma Puelblo N.M.; and Juan Quesada ot Maria Ortiz, Mexico.