Historic Yellow Springs

During this workshop, participants will work to deconstruct their current way of making and rethink their creative process. They will be introduced to a new approach centered around "play." I define play within the fine arts as letting go of the preciousness of what you think you want to make and allowing your intuition to guide the process instead. It is about being curious, asking better questions, embracing mistakes, and discovering what happens when you release expectations and give yourself permission to create freely.

Participants will bring their own freshly leather-hard vessels and a willingness to experiment as they explore this unique approach to making. Through demonstrations and hands-on exploration, they will alter, reconstruct, and respond intuitively to their forms, discovering new possibilities along the way.

This philosophy is the foundation of ceramic artist Hadley Wiktor's current body of work. By continually asking new questions and allowing herself the freedom to make mistakes, or even make "bad" work, she has developed a distinctive visual language that celebrates curiosity, experimentation, and the act of letting go.

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