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Mt. Washington Studio Classes
Robbie Lobell Workshop
Cooking & Serving Pots
WS2
- Instructor: Robbie Lobell
Date/Time: Saturday & Sunday, 10-4pm, April 10 & 11
Fee: $200 Members; $220 Non-members
This weekend workshop will address issues of function and aesthetics potters face when making oven-to-table pots. How do we think about the preparing & presentation of food, the function of the form and surface? What kinds of pots do we want on our tables, in the kitchen?
Through demonstration and lively discussion, students will investigate ideas for kitchen-to-table ware and much more.
Emphasis will be on thrown & altered baking/roasting/cooking oven-to-table pots.
Robbie Lobell is a studio potter living and working on Whidbey Island in Washington. She is primarily self-taught and spent 12 years working on the east coast where she completed intensive study with Mikhail Zakin in 1994 and a six-week residency with Karen Karnes in 2001. She was Artist-in-Residence and then Resident Potter at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester, MA from 1994 - 1998. Lobell was on the faculty at the Worcester Center for Crafts for 10 years and has taught workshops and classes throughout the country including at Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, CT, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA, Lehman College, Bronx, NY, Old Church Cultural Center School of Art, Demarest, NJ , Vermont Clay Center, Mudflat Studio, Somerville, MA, Peter’s Valley Craft Center, Layton, PA, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME, Mendocino Art Center, CA, and Pottery Northwest and Seward Park Art Center, Seattle.
Lobell's pots reside in kitchens, on tables, and in cupboards around the world. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows nationwide including; Women With Wood: Three Generations, Heinz Center, Pittsburg NCECA 2008, Annual Mingei Glenn Richards Pottery Invitational, Seattle, WA, TEACH, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA, The Simple Cup, Kobo at Higo, Seattle, WA, Vapourware, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA, Gas It Up: Salt, Soda, and Slip, The Potters Guild, Baltimore, MD (in conjunction with NCECA 2005), Container – Content: A Survey of American Studio Ceramic Art, Fuller Museum of Art, the Strictly Functional Pottery Nationals, Clay Cup V & VII, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, the Annual Invitational Pottery Shows, Demarest, NJ, Functional Ceramics, The Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH. Her work is carried in galleries and gourmet shops nationally. Lobell’s work & articles have been featured in Studio Potter Magazine, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Ceramics Monthly’s Workshop Handbook, the Krause Publications book, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery by Kevin Hluch. She is a member of NCECA, The Artist Trust, The American Ceramic Society, Washington Potter’s Association, and Northwest Designer Craftsmen.
