Friday, october 25 - Saturday, October 26 | 9am - 4pm each day
With instructors Mary Beth Magyar + Lisa Truax
Workshop: $245 per person | $200 For MMAM Members
Workshop tuition includes materials.
Taking inspiration from the playful approach to ceramics in Judy Onofrio’s exhibition, Deep Dive (on view at MMAM June 29, 2024 - January 5, 2025), this two-day workshop held in the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s Oberton Education Room teaches participants to use press and texture molds, make sprig molds, incorporate natural objects, use templates, and hand building techniques to create unique pieces of functional pottery and sculptural objects. There will be a focus on texture, assemblage, and developing visual interest with multiple techniques used for each piece. Students will have the opportunity to compare and experiment with clay bodies, including creating a pinch pot made from locally harvested clay from the Upper Mississippi River. Surface decoration techniques for leather hard clay will also be covered, including sgraffito, using local clay slips, sand, and ash for decorative effect. Pieces made during the workshop will be fired and can be picked up (or shipped) 2 weeks after the workshop is completed.
Register for the workshop
Registration is refundable until October 4, 2024. Students who cancel their enrollment 21 days or less prior to the first day of the workshop are not eligible for a refund.
About the instructors
Mary Beth Magyar
Mary Beth Magyar is a sculptor and educator that works with metal and ceramics. Magyar earned a BFA from Michigan State University and a MA Ed. from Hamline University. Magyar maintains solo, community engagement practices, and a public mini art gallery project called smallärt from her studio in Rochester, MN. Magyar’s work is focused on creating sculptures where beauty and color create a sense of joy and hope. magyarstudio.com
Lisa S. Truax
Lisa S. Truax is a ceramic artist and educator living and maintaining a studio in Pickwick, Minnesota outside Winona. She holds an MFA from Michigan State University in Ceramics and is an Associate Professor teaching art and design. Truax’s artwork explores personal and cultural relationships to landscape and environment with a focus on local materials and connection to place. redreduction.com
Scholarships
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum studio arts workshop scholarship fund has been made available thanks to a grant funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board. While anyone with financial need is welcome to apply, the goals of the scholarship program are as follows (in no particular order): to increase the diversity of age and race in our student body; to offer opportunities to local residents of the Winona area; to support the learning of those with professional aspirations in a particular craft area; and to make our programming available to those with financial need.
An individual may receive one scholarship per year maximum. Scholarships cover full tuition and materials fee, though participants are required to supply any additional required materials.
Support Comes From
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
