Enhance Your Approach to Clay

Beginning & Intermediate 
   2018
August 4 & 5, 2018 from 1:30-4:30pm
August 11, 2018  from 1:30-3:30pm-3 sessions

September 18 & 25, 2018 from 1:30-4:30pm
October 2, 2018 from 1:30-3:30pm-3 sessions

October 30 & Nov. 6, 2018 from 1:30-4:30pm 
November 13, 2018 from 1:30-3:30pm-3 sessions  
 
Instructor: Luce Van Asten
Class Fee:   $80.00 non-members-Each Class + $15 Supply Fee
                      $72.00 BRMAA Members-Each Class + $15 Supply Fee                                     

This Pottery Class is for beginning and intermediate Students.  This is a great clay class to create  a variety of clay pieces and apply glazes.  Each class will focus on different techniques and projects creating functional vessels and figurative sculptures.  Some of the projects include chimes, vases, garden sculpture, coiled basket, boxes, bottles and drinking vessels.  The techniques used are coiling, slab, surface decorations, and pinch pots to name a few.  Students will take home some great creative clay pieces.  Each class (3 Sessions) fee will be $80.00 plus a $15 Supply Fee for clay, glazes and kiln firing.  Come bring your friend or relative to class and create some great fun memories! 
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Register for the Class Below
Enhance Clay 8/4,8/5,8/11/18-Registration and Supply Fee
Enhance Clay 9/18,9/25,10/2/18-Registration and Supply Fee
Enhance Clay 10/30,11/6,11/13/18-Registration and Supply Fee
Call (706) 632-2144 for questions regarding this course and registration.  Payment is required to register for BRMAA courses. You may pay via PayPal above, over the phone, or visit The Art Center located at 420 West Main Street, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 to pay in person. The Programming Coordinator is in the office from 10 am - 6pm on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday..
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
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Marie-Luce Van Asten was born in Belgium and lived there for 40 years.  Her parents had a home in the country side where they were growing fruit and vegetables but also chickens, pigeons and rabbits, all in an organic and sustainable way.
 In High School, she decided to take Art Classes as her main focus and then she went to college to become an Art teacher.  At that time, we were exposed to a lot of different art disciplines: painting, ceramics, drawing, photography, sculpture, print making as well as scientific design.  For her year-end project, she choose to focus on Print Making, a discipline she kept practicing through the early years of her married life.
 She graduated in Belgium as an Art teacher in 1983.  When she arrived in the US in 2001, she found Chastain Art Center in Atlanta where she took wheel classes for 2 years.  About that period, she got a full-time job at the Atlanta International School, her new professional life did not allow her to attend the day classes at Chastain anymore so she switched to the evening hand building clay classes.  Luce taught the French language at the Atlanta International School in kindergarten and elementary for 15 years and retired in 2016. 
 During recent summers, Luce has been attending workshops at Arrowmont School of Art in Tennessee and at John Campbell Folk School where she has been developing and fine tuning her style.  She took classes to improve her figurative sculpture techniques and discovered different surface decoration. Furthermore, with the help of her husband, Dominicus, she is fusing her ceramic pieces with wood. All pieces are hand crafted in Blue Ridge and are one of a kind!  She hand-builds the clay pieces using different types of clay depending on the finished piece she wants to create; for each of them they discuss which wood components to use, trying to tell a story through their integration. The wood is used to enhance the piece and to finish it.