Workshop: Personal Narrative Multi-Dimensional Surface Decoration with Underglaze on Stoneware

Key concepts will include throwing, hand building, stamping, sprigging, underglaze application, and brushwork.
Workshop will be led by Jesse Albrecht. Albrecht was halfway through his MFA in ceramics at the University of Iowa when he was deployed to Iraq with the U.S. military. His work interrogates the symbolic economy of globalism and other ideologies that animate and sustain conflict. With brutal honesty, he also explores the personal psychological aftermath of combat.
Albrecht trained under legendary ceramicist Don Reitz. Albrecht combines technical mastery with imagery and forms that range from refined and realistic to intentionally crude and even funny. Functional pottery has recently been added to his work.