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update: "oh yes you can", russel fouts workshop,

updated mon 15 mar 04

 

Russel Fouts on sun 15 feb 04

March 27-26 at University of Indianapolis

"Oh Yes You Can", Russel Fouts Workshop, March 27-26 at University of
Indianapolis

We now have a price and schedule for the workshop.

The workshop will be $100 for the two days, including lunch.

We will start at 10:00 am and go to 5:00 pm each day.

There will be time to show slides and work in the afternoon on Sunday while
the kiln is firing.

The address is:
University of Indianapolis
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46227
U.S.A.

You can get driving directions here:

http://www.uindy.edu/maps/index.php

I hope to see some of you there.

I've included the original posting below with more information:
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I will be giving this workshop in Indianapolis after NCECA. We don't know
the price yet or the exact times but we're working on it.

If you are interested please send mail to me off list at
Russel.Fouts@Skynet.be or Gail Phillips at figglywig@att.net.

"Oh Yes You Can!" (Saggar Firing in an Electric Kiln)
Limit: 12 people

March 27th and 28th at the University of Indianapolis

This hands-on workshop explores new possibilities for users of electric kilns.

It has been a long held belief that burning any kind of combustible in an
electric kiln is hazardous to the kiln. I'll show how it can be done safely
and to wonderful effect.

This workshop also explores the possibilities of alternative and
semi-permiable resists and techniques.

My workshops are process oriented, not product oriented.

I'm trying to give people a "spring-board" for experimention in new ways
with the materials they find at hand.

I ask people not to expect a finished product from the workshops but a
"beginning", something to take home and continue to work with, look at,
learn from and re-work until the piece is "finished" (what ever that may
mean).

You can read a detailed outline of the workshop at the link below.

http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/PawleysIslandWorkshop2.htm

And you can see some of the possiblities here:

http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/gallery.htm


Participants are asked to bring:

- Several small to medium size, high bisqued, burnished white or light
bodied or white sigged work.
- Pieces should be bisqued close to the maturing temperature of their clay
(1000c or 1832f). Body should still be fairly open. I think most people who
are doing smoke fired work and raku are using stoneware bodies but firing
them really low, so I think 1000c would be about right. Basically, you
don't want it to be too open or it's all going to go black (of course, that
could be acceptable too)
- It would be interesting if some of the work they brought was made with a
paper clay. This can go VERY black using this technique.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Russel



Russel Fouts
Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75

Http://www.mypots.com
Home of "The Potters Portal"
Over 2300 Pottery Related Links!
Updated frequently

My work can also be seen on:
The World Crafts Council International Site: http://www.wccwis.gr
The World Crafts Council Belgium Site: http://wcc-bf.org (English Pages)
EasyCraft: http://www.easycraft.org

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that
we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public." --U.S. President (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Theodore
Roosevelt.

Russel Fouts on fri 5 mar 04

March 27-28 at University of Indianapolis

Still places available!

"Oh Yes You Can!" (Saggar Firing in an Electric Kiln)
March 27th and 28th at the University of Indianapolis from 10:00 am to 5:00
pm each day.
Limit: 12 people
Price: $100 including lunch

If you are interested please send mail to Gail Phillips at
figglywig@att.net or me at Russel.Fouts@Skynet.be off list.

This hands-on workshop explores new possibilities for users of electric kilns.

It has been a long held belief that burning any kind of combustible in an
electric kiln is hazardous to the kiln. I'll show how it can be done safely
and to wonderful effect.

This workshop also explores the possibilities of alternative and
semi-permiable resists and techniques.

My workshops are process oriented, not product oriented. I'm trying to give
people a "spring-board" for experimention in new ways with the materials
they find at hand.

I ask people not to expect a finished product from the workshops but a
"beginning", something to take home and continue to work with, look at,
learn from and re-work until the piece is "finished" (what ever that may
mean).

Participants are asked to bring:
- Several small to medium size, high bisqued, burnished white or light
bodied or white sigged work.
- Pieces should be bisqued close to the maturing temperature of their clay
(1000c or 1832f). Body should still be fairly open. I think most people who
are doing smoke fired work and raku are using stoneware bodies but firing
them really low, so I think 1000c would be about right. Basically, you
don't want it to be too open or it's all going to go black (of course, that
could be acceptable too)
- It would be interesting if some of the work they brought was made with a
paper clay. This can go VERY black using this technique.

You can read a detailed outline of the workshop at the link below.

http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/PawleysIslandWorkshop2.htm

A copy of the Brochure is here:

http://www.mypots.com/Files/fouts1.pdf

And you can see some of the possiblities here:

http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/gallery.htm

Also, some of my work, among others, will be presented at NCECA by John
Hesselberth in his presentation "Great Results from Electric Kilns".

The address for the workshop is:
University of Indianapolis
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46227
U.S.A.

You can get driving directions here:

http://www.uindy.edu/maps/index.php

We hope to hear from you soon.

Russel



Russel Fouts
Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75

Http://www.mypots.com
Home of "The Potters Portal"
Over 2300 Pottery Related Links!
Updated frequently

My work can also be seen on:
The World Crafts Council International Site: http://www.wccwis.gr
The World Crafts Council Belgium Site: http://wcc-bf.org (English Pages)
EasyCraft: http://www.easycraft.org

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that
we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public." --U.S. President (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Theodore
Roosevelt.

Russel Fouts on sun 14 mar 04

March 27-28 at University of Indianapolis

Still places available!

"Oh Yes You Can!" (Saggar Firing in an Electric Kiln)
March 27th and 28th at the University of Indianapolis from 10:00 am to 5:00
pm each day.
Limit: 12 people
Price: $100 including lunch

If you are interested please send mail to Gail Phillips at
figglywig@att.net or me at Russel.Fouts@Skynet.be off list.

This hands-on workshop explores new possibilities for users of electric kilns.

It has been a long held belief that burning any kind of combustible in an
electric kiln is hazardous to the kiln. I'll show how it can be done safely
and to wonderful effect.

This workshop also explores the possibilities of alternative and
semi-permiable resists and techniques.

My workshops are process oriented, not product oriented. I'm trying to give
people a "spring-board" for experimention in new ways with the materials
they find at hand.

I ask people not to expect a finished product from the workshops but a
"beginning", something to take home and continue to work with, look at,
learn from and re-work until the piece is "finished" (what ever that may
mean).

Participants are asked to bring:
- Several small to medium size, high bisqued, burnished white or light
bodied or white sigged work.
- Pieces should be bisqued close to the maturing temperature of their clay
(1000c or 1832f). Body should still be fairly open. I think most people who
are doing smoke fired work and raku are using stoneware bodies but firing
them really low, so I think 1000c would be about right. Basically, you
don't want it to be too open or it's all going to go black (of course, that
could be acceptable too)
- It would be interesting if some of the work they brought was made with a
paper clay. This can go VERY black using this technique.

You can read a detailed outline of the workshop at the link below.

http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/PawleysIslandWorkshop2.htm

A copy of the Brochure is here:

http://www.mypots.com/Files/fouts1.pdf

And you can see some of the possiblities here:

http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/gallery.htm

Also, some of my work, among others, will be presented at NCECA by John
Hesselberth in his presentation "Great Results from Electric Kilns".

The address for the workshop is:
University of Indianapolis
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46227
U.S.A.

You can get driving directions here:

http://www.uindy.edu/maps/index.php

We hope to hear from you soon.

Russel



Russel Fouts
Mes Potes & Mes Pots
Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 223 02 75
Mobile: +32 476 55 38 75

Http://www.mypots.com
Home of "The Potters Portal"
Over 2300 Pottery Related Links!
Updated frequently

My work can also be seen on:
The World Crafts Council International Site: http://www.wccwis.gr
The World Crafts Council Belgium Site: http://wcc-bf.org (English Pages)
EasyCraft: http://www.easycraft.org

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that
we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public." --U.S. President (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Theodore
Roosevelt.