Thinking Through Atmosphere
with Lindsay Oesterritter
Course Schedule:
1st Sundays // 3-5pm EST
Course Description:
Often when we talk about atmosphere, we are talking about the final firing and resulting surface from that firing. Let’s instead think about the atmosphere as all the decisions leading up to and including that final firing. As artists we are making small but important decisions throughout the creative process that set our visual voice. These details, successes, failures, and experiments are all felt and seen on the final piece. The final firing is in support of and continues these aesthetic, material, and functional decisions we have already made.
In this class, it is my goal to get to know each of you, and your atmospheric interests and goals. We will utilize this year-long class format to discuss all the aspects that lead into completing our wares, and how the atmosphere in our final firing can support our intentions. Just like a kiln load, the assembly of our class interests will greatly affect the outcome of dialog and discussions we have surrounding atmospheric firing. Beginners are welcome! Guest Lectures to be determined.
Website https://www.loceramics.com/
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Registration opens October 19th at 10am Central Time
About Lindsay
Lindsay Oesterritter is currently a full-time studio potter in Manassas Virginia, she has been utilizing wood fire techniques for over 15 years. She is co-organizer of Southern Crossing Pottery Festival held in her hometown of Louisville KY. Most recently in 2024 Lindsay was asked to be on the organizing board of the North Carolina Wood Fire Conference, a biannual conference that brings artists from all over the globe together. She also taught a summer wood firing workshop at Alfred University in Alfred New York. In 2020 she published her first book, Mastering Kilns & Firing. She earned her MFA from Utah State University in Logan Utah. She held the position of Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Western Kentucky University (2009-2015) and earned Associate Professor in 2015. Lindsay had the fortune to be a resident artist at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg and in Australia at Strathnairn Arts Association. She has had the opportunity to lead workshops, curate exhibitions, lecture and exhibit nationally and internationally and is continually inspired by the craft community.
