Clay Vision Box Workshop · Lisa Kurtz・ Adult Short Workshops
February 19–22, Monday to Thursday · 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
$150 registration fee
Learn to make your own clay slab vision boxes to depict goals and/or memories. Students will make and decorate a slab box out of clay and create items out of clay to put into the box. Mixed media, found objects, pictures, and other handmade objects will also be used to decorate the boxes with. Completed vision boxes can be hung on the wall or put in a special place in the home as visual reminders of what you are working towards in your life. All are welcome to join this creative clay workshop.
*Arrowmont staff will kiln fire all pieces. Students will be notified about pick up at a later date.
Register by phone at 865-436-5860
Lisa Kurtz is a professional potter, clay artist, and educator. After earning her master’s degree in ceramics from the University of Louisville, she started her pottery, “Highland Pottery”, in the eclectic Highlands neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky. Since then, she has been an exhibiting member and juror for many professional guilds and artist associations. In 2015 she was awarded a grant from TN Craft and the Tennessee Arts Commission to be a “Master Artist” in their Master Artist Apprentice Program (MAAP). An award-winning ceramic artist, she has exhibited and sold her clay work in galleries and shops across the U.S. and in national and regional juried fine art shows and craft fairs. She re-started the clay program and taught ceramics at Cleveland State Community College in Cleveland, Tennessee. She also taught drawing, clay, and art history courses as an adjunct professor for several years at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. She has taught clay workshops and classes at art centers in Tennessee and Kentucky and currently teaches functional ceramics classes (including throwing and hand building) at the Oak Ridge Art Center in East Tennessee. Lisa also currently serves as the President of her local clay group in Knoxville, Terra Madre: Women in Clay and the Marketing Chair for a local cooperative gallery in Knoxville – The Art Market Gallery – where she sells and exhibits her work.
