Session Four/June 23-27

Susan Siegele & Michael Haley
Colored Clays

All levels
Studio
5 Day class (9am-4pm)
Tuition: $275
Materials: $20

This class will mix colored clays and make test tiles. Next, inlaid blocks will be created and sliced into tiles. After the tiles are fired, students will go on to cementing and grouting onto backer board, forming a tile composition. If time allows, the class will continue to make color blocks and go on to make pots.

Susy Siegele and Michael Haley of Huntsville, Arkansas have been working with colored clay since 1976 when they became interested in developing clay bodies in a range of hues and shades while studying with ceramicist and sculptor, J. Brough Miller, at Texas Woman's University. Michael did his masters thesis utilizing colored clay in raku firing, while Susy was experimenting with a series of colored porcelain bodies for high-fired work while working on her undergraduate degree. In 1993, they were selected by the director of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery to donate a representative piece of their colored porcelain to the White House Collection of American Crafts. This piece was first exhibited in the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and later at the American Craft Museum in New York, in addition to other major museums around the country.