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Pueblo Style Olla Workshop with Trina Mansfield
Schedule:
9am-12pm. The morning session will include an overview and demonstration in ancient cultures methods. Students will learn Trina’s hand building techniques using coils, compression and padding.
12-1pm. Students will bring their own bag lunch and while our pots set up a bit we will enjoy a picnic in the garden.
1-4pm. The afternoon session Trina will demonstrate her glazing techniques for decorating the olla. Students will then glaze their own vessels. They will then be bisque fired and then a clear glaze is applied. This olla, traditional water jug can be used as a flower vase, pencil holder or general art piece. Pick up your finished piece in 2-3 weeks.
*Trina Mansfield is a multiple/disciplinary artist who has been creating original works of art for 38 years. She works in multiple media including ceramics, fiber art, stained glass, and metal smithing. Always loving art and working with her hands, Trina graduated from The Art Institute of Philadelphia in the 80’s as a painter. Always taking many classes in all different media for her entire adult life. Trina worked as a professional stained glass artisan for 15 years, running a stained glass studio on South Street in Philadelphia.
Trina has been in countless group shows over the years and many one woman exhibitions of her work in including at Drexel University Nesbit gallery, Springhouse Mill Gallery and Sam Shaw Contemporary Art. Trina was an instructor at the University City Art’s League for 22 years, Temple University Center city(TUCC) for 13 years and Main Line Art Center for 6 years, teaching ceramics, quilting, stained glass, mosaics and decoupage. She taught kid’s pottery for more than 10 years at The Art’s League.
Mansfield has been working in ceramics, making pottery since 1993. She focuses primarily on coil building and has been deeply moved and inspired by Native American pottery of the Southwest. She works in high fire stoneware as well as raku. Trina studied with a Hopi ceramic artisan to learn their ancient coil-building techniques.
Trina does original one of a kind work for clients and is included in many institutional and private collections throughout the region and country.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3016412-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3016412-2
