Glaze of Our Lives: Understanding Glaze for the Beginner - Virtual Workshop

Flower City Arts Center is excited to partner with Rose and Matt Katz of Ceramic Materials Workshop to offer their "Glaze of Our Lives" workshop for a discounted price of $60 (this online course typically retails for $100)! Please note that this special offer is only available for FCAC's members, studio artists, staff, students, teachers, and artists-in-residence.

Enrollment for this workshop is open now through May 22. Participating students will receive all "Glaze Of Our Lives" lectures via email after May 22.

"Glaze of Our Lives" is a self-guided exploration of glazes like no other. This online workshop is designed to help makers of all levels (not just beginners) understand how their glazes really work. The course includes over 12 hours of lectures that you may watch, whenever, wherever, however often, and on whatever device.

Topics explored include:
What is a glaze?
How temperature works
Temperature: Cone 10, Cone 6, Cone 04, Bisquing
Glaze Types: Gloss, Matte, and Satin, Slow Cooling, Phase Separation
Reading a Formula
Glaze Ingredients: Feldspar, Carbonates, Clay, Flint, Borates
Glaze Additives
Colors: Colorants, Stains, Opacifiers
Toxicity and Durability
Firings: Oxidation, Reduction, Body Reduction
Glaze Types: Celadon (Blue, Green, Amber), Temmoku, Snowflake Crackle, Tea Dust, Oil Spot, Hare’s Fur, Tomato Red/Kaki, Iron Bleeding, Adventurine, Shino, Wood Ash, Fake Wood Ash, Jun, Nuka, Crawling (bead), Crystalline, Fake Metallic, Oribe, Copper Red, Chrome-Tin Pink, Floating Blue, Lava
Layering Glazes
Glaze Flaws: Crazing, Shivering, Crawling, Metal marking, Running, Pin-holing, Blistering
What is the Unity Molecular Formula?

To see a sample video of the workshop, visit: https://www.ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com/glaze-of-our-lives.html

About Ceramic Materials Workshop:
CMW (https://www.ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com) is run by Rose and Matt Katz, ceramic materials experts who specialize in teaching how glazes and clays work, online. They teach at schools such as Alfred University, The Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University. Rose and Matt make it their job to translate the technical side of clay and glazes for makers of all experience levels, and they do it all online.