Join Jennifer (Jenn) Kaplan for a two day Ceramic Sculpture Workshop to ignite your figure sculpting skills. This course will focus on handbuilding with an emphasis on seeing one another. Students will learn foundational sculpting techniques like coil building and pinching as well as advanced detailing techniques to create emotive figures. 

Students can expect to walk away with a medium sized figure sculpture. Arriving with multiple images of the human or nonhuman you wish to sculpt is encouraged but not required.

Members: $275

Non-members: $295

May 30 and 31

10am-4pm includes a 1 hour lunch break at 12:30

Materials: 

1-2 bags of clay per person (Students can either bring there own clay or SCAC will have bags of clay for purchase onsite)

Students need: Minimum, a serrated rib or fork and wooden knife or equivalent. (SCAC has some tools available!)

Optional: Small modeling tools, small paint brush and a banding wheel are helpful. (SCAC has some tools available!)

Bio:

Jennifer (Jenn) Kaplan is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Warren Wilson College and is in the 2025 Craft Alliance Teaching Artist Cohort. They teach figure sculpture workshops at Mighty Mud, were a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and instructor at the Knoxville Museum of Art, have attended residencies at Cub Creek Foundation and Armory Art Center where they taught Ceramic Chemistry, Wheel Throwing and Altering, Soda-Firing and Figure Sculpture in partnership with the Norton Museum of Art. Jennifer earned their MFA from The University of Notre Dame and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in between they were Lead Instructor at Penguin Foot Pottery and taught Urban Gardening at Marwen in Chicago. Jennifer has shown in the Snite Museum of Art, Red Lodge Clay Center, Companion Gallery, Kansas City Clay Guild, Saratoga Arts Center, Queen City Clay, Relay Ridge Gallery, Appalachian Center for Craft, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center as well as others primarily in the Midwest and Southeastern United States. Jenn will present at Wedge, Australian Ceramics Triennale in 2025.