Bay Area Clay- A Legacy of Social Consciousness at Arts Benicia

La Meridiana 2017

The View from the Veranda

La Classe

Portrait Bust Demo

Miranda with Toad

Students at work

A few finished student works in the local clay

Lunch!

In the kitchen...

Relaxing on the Veranda

Our Show at Portland NCECA 2017!

Catalogue Cover. This exhibition will travel to Arts Benicia in October 2017, and the Pence Gallery in Davis in May 2018!

Michelle Gregor, Mark Messenger (Hand), Lisa Reinertson (Rt)

Arthur Gonzalez

Lisa Reinertson

Wanxin Zhang

Monica Van Den Dool

Arthur Gonzalez

Richard Shaw

Marc Lancet

Ehren Tool

Mark Messenger

Stan Welsh

Richard Notkin

Michelle Gregor and Stan Welsh

Come Sculpt With Me in Tuscany in June 2017!

La Meridiana International School of Sculpture Presents

FIGURATIVE CERAMIC SCULPTURE

Inspirations from the Italian Renaissance and Beyond

A Ceramic workshop in Tuscany with

LISA REINERTSON  -  JUNE 4th – 17th 2017

The Workshop

 In this workshop Lisa Reinertson will guide students in an exploration of figurative ceramic sculpture inspired both by working from life, and by the great figurative sculptures of the Italian Renaissance.

To get the inspirational juices going, we will begin the week with a visit to Florence and the Bargello Museum to see the amazing sculptures of the Italian Renaissance including works by Donatello, Michelangelo, and Della Robbia.

In the studio, we will spend our first five mornings working with a live model, doing figure studies in bas-relief, and small 3-D figure studies. In the afternoons, we will each work on a mid-size hollow built sculpture inspired by the artwork seen in Florence. Lisa will work alongside the students providing demonstrations, and plenty of one on one feedback.

While your work is firing, we will visit Florence again and see Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia.

For More Information:

Please send me an email through my website.  Also see:

LA MERIDIANA

International Centre of Ceramics in Tuscany

www.lameridiana.fi.it

For Booking Contact:

info@lameridiana.fi.it

Exhibition at Roscoe Ceramics Gallery Oct. 2

www.roscoeceramicgallery.com/

Figurative Workshop in Tuscany 2017

Plans are in the works for a two week figurative ceramic workshop in Tuscany in June of 2017 at La Meridiana School of Ceramics. Inspirational trips to Florence and other Tuscan towns will be included.
Stay tuned !!
                             

Quyle Kilns Workshop in Murphy's California

I'm looking forward to teaching the Ceramic Workshop coming up next week at Quyle Kilns in Murphy's, CA.  The class will be focused on wall sculptures in deep relief. The class is full, but we may be doing this again!

"Dad's Fiddle", Ceramic

I hear there will be some good music happening in the evenings there, as Pamela Quyle's siblings have a winery and music venue on the property!

This particular sculpture is of my dad playing the fiddle. Seemed appropriate...