Exploring Clay: Abstract Handbuilding
Jaylyn Crowe
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Exploring Clay: Abstract Handbuilding
Jaylyn Crowe
Exploring clay may seem overwhelming at first. How and where do I start?
Over the course of four weeks, Jaylyn Crowe will guide students through beginner handbuilding techniques in clay in this hands-on class. Starting off with a drawn organic shape, students will take their two-dimensional form and build upward and outward using techniques like pinching, coiling and slab construction. As we work through these processes, students will draw inspiration from the natural world and organic form. Not only will we focus on the fundamentals of handbuilding, but also art elements such as texture, line, color and pattern.
No prior clay experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore clay. By the end, you'll leave with a solid grounding in the core techniques of handbuilt ceramics and abstract sculptural thinking.
Four week class, meets once a week for three hours
(901) 625-5323
info@shapeshifterartschool.com
Jaylyn Crowe
Jaylyn Crowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is grounded in ceramics. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Memphis, graduating summa cum laude.
Through her practice, Crowe preserves and honors the history of her family across generations using memories as source material. Through visual storytelling and clay, she creates held truths and carries them forward into the future.
Crows are a recurring symbol in her work, and she is drawn to the capacity for memory shared by both clay and crows. Clay physically retains the memory of its maker's hands, preserving every touch and impression within its surface. Likewise, crows retain memories of the places they travel, the faces they encounter, and the stories they carry.
Crowe’s work embodies the relationship between material and lived experience, suggesting that memory exists both within self and objects created by hand.