"Connecting culture to environment through art since 1994" About Us The Studio The Galleries Events Home Pocosin Arts Folk School in Partnership with the Rocky Mount Art Center Present An annual artist retreat in northeastern North Carolina. The retreat provides an opportunity to engage in a creative community for a few days during the winter season.  It continues to a gathering of diverse individuals.  Some are professional artists looking to grow within their field or try something new.  Some are not so engaged in artmaking and are looking for their creative direction. Save the Date... CABIN FEVER RELIEVER IX February 19-22, 2009 at the 4-H Center Instructors TBA To see some photos of the Cabin Fever Reliever VIII Creative Arts Retreat February 7-10, 2008 click here The following workshops took place: Cabin Fever Reliever VIII Studio Workshops Title Instructor Tired of Double Dipping?   Pick Up a Brush and Decorate Ken Sedberry Figurative Ceramics Debra Fritts 360 Degrees--Rings Tim Lazure Woodworking with Hand Tools Roy Underhill
Tired of Double Dipping?  Pick Up a Brush and Decorate with Ken Sedberry The object of this pottery workshop is to learn to embellish the surface of pottery pieces by building up layers of color and creating movement.  The class will explore the use of animal and plant imagery, and how such imagery may best fit a particular pot or sculpture. Ken will demonstrate and facilitate the following hands-on activities: Decorative techniques including:  paper, latex, wax resist, bulb trailing, scraffito, and carving into raw clay. Throwing forms for decoration and throwing altered forms. Use of hump molds. Supply Fee:  $ TBA (payable to Pocosin Arts) Students should bring: sponge needle tool cut off wire trim tool your favorite brushes several pieces of cone 6 bisque ware to decorate (include at least two pieces to EXPERIMENT with glaze) To learn about Ken Sedberry and his work, visit www.sedberrypottery.com
Figurative Ceramics with Debra Fritts In this class, handbuilding techniques will be used to create figurative forms in clay.  Students will gain experience in building a head with clay, using coils and modeling.  They will also learn the correct measurements of the face and techniques in building facial features.  Ways to start building the surface on the piece before bisque firing will be demonstrated.  Symbolism and other applications to make work personal and meaningful will be discussed.   The workshop may also include torso-building if time allows. Supply Fee:  $ TBA (payable to Pocosin Arts) Students should bring: personal clay tools:  wire cutter, needle tool, loop tools, rubber rib, etc. brushes for slip application textured objects for impressions wooden skewers (grocery store) mirror turntable/banding wheel several small boards (around 12" x 12" - drywall boards work well) notebook/journal/sketchbook a personal object of meaning 1/2" dowel rod - 12" long packing material to transport work home To learn more about Debra Fritts and her work, visit  www.debrafritts.net
360 Degrees: Rings with Tim Lazure This workshop will begin with the basics in ring-making, first demonstrating how to size a ring, solder, form it round, and finish it.  The class will then be shown how to fabricate different styles of rings.  The workshop will be balanced with demonstrations and sufficient time to work on projects. The instructor will cover: working with both wire and sheet.   applying texture with hammer and chasing tools.  setting stones or other objects onto a ring.     In a workshop such as this, a student will typically make about one ring per day, but this varies depending on the complexity of the ring and the experience of the student. Supply Fee:  $15.00-$40.00 (payable to Tim Lazure) This fee will depend on how much silver is used. Students are welcome to bring silver they purchased elsewhere. Students are welcome to bring any jewelry making tools they own.  If they plan on purchasing tools and would like some recommendations, contact Tim Lazure: lazuret@ecu.edu Students should bring: sketchbook drawing supplies towel or rag x-acto knife and blades ruler scissors masking tape stones or small objects to set in a ring (the instructor will also bring a limited number of stones from which students may purchase) jewelry making tools - IF students already own some
Working with Hand Tools (Dovetail Chest/Box-Make It & Take It) with Roy Underhill Students attending this workshop will build a mid-size chest, large enough for the traveling artisan-but not too huge to move.  The box will be miter-ended through with dovetail corners and half lap corners on the lid.  The joinery will be undertaken entirely with hand tools.  Beginners will find this a challenging introduction to hand woodworking, while more advanced participants may undertake refinements to the interior fittings. Participants may instead choose to make a smaller woodworker's tool box that may be carried like a long suitcase.  This smaller box may also be dovetailed or rabbetted and nailed.  It requires less labor than the large chest and is a better option for the beginning woodworker.   Students will hand plane the mill-sawn stock if necessary, lay out and cut the dovetail joints, plane the machanical connections, and assemble the chest or box.  Hand planing the tupip poplar boards can be arduous, but the class will work together to see that everyone has stock for their piece.   Supply Fee:  $35.00 (payable to Roy Underhill) Student should bring (if they have): a portable work bench basic joiner's tools, especially mallets! their own wood (IF they have been saving wide boards to make a chest) Roy Underhill is a former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg.  He has been teaching traditional woodworking for over thirty years.  He is the author of five books on woodcraft and creator of the PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop.  To learn more about Roy and his television program, visit www.unctv.org, clisk on local programs, scroll down to Woodwright's Shop.
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