Holding Light: Handbuilding Candelabras
- Description
- Location
- About the Artist
- Policies
- Liability & Safety
Join us for a festive handbuilding workshop to celebrate the season of lights. This time of year is a celebratory time for many cultures, and the holidays emphasize themes of light, hope, and togetherness. In this two-day workshop ceramic artist Paloma Wall will lead participants through the process of handbuilding your very own candelabra to gift to a loved one or use in your own holiday rituals.
Day 1 - Saturday, November 8 | 11am - 3pm
- Discuss candelabras and different forms they can take
- Gather inspiration, sketch and design process
- Demonstrate hand-building techniques such as slab rolling, extruding and pinching
- Discuss support structures for building candelabras
Day 2 - Sunday, November 9 | 11am - 3pm
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After work has dried to a leather hard state we will go in and refine shape and details
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Carving or adding texture and painting using underglazes
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Demonstration of glaze techniques for candelabras
- Also discussing possible cold decoration techniques after final firing, such as gold leafing the candelabras.
Additional Information:
- One bag of white stoneware clay is included with workshop
- Bisque and glaze firing are included in the workshop fee
- Skill Level: Open to all skill levels. No prior handbuilding needed
Our classes are for adults. If you have a child under 18 interested in taking a class, please contact us before enrolling.
1600 Altamont Avenue
Richmond, VA 23230
Paloma Wall’s work utilizes handbuilding techniques (coiling, pinching, extruding, and rolling slabs of clay). She isolates parts of the human body and combines them with the natural somatic symmetry of ancient ceramic vessel forms. While looking at the utilitarian nature of ceramics by including handles, holes and ergonomic features to her work. Often the sculptures have varying sizes of tubes of clay within to create a negative space. The absence of clay takes on a new understanding for the vessels themselves, while pushing the material to see what it can do physically. She aims to move the viewer's
eye through and around the works, showing the resilience of the clay and how a form can emerge between inflated shapes. The negative spaces are just as imperative to the body of the piece- as the shape of the clay itself. Wall looks at every angle while working on a sculpture, seeing the shapes as lines in a two dimensional plane.
The work moves through embedded memories of her childhood, while paying homage to the process of grieving. These sculptures become relics of Wall’s past and a way to process loss. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in
Sculpture + Extended Media, minoring in Painting and Printmaking in 2011, and currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.
Wall has shown her work across the region including; 4W- Space (Los Angeles, CA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville, TN), Reynolds Gallery(Richmond, VA), and during Capital One’s NCECCA 2024 (Richmond, VA). Her works are also held in many private collections.
Cancellations made 4 or more days before the start of the class will be refunded. For cancellations made fewer than 4 full days, but more than 24 hours before the start time, a 50% refund or 50% credit toward another class or workshop will be issued. We cannot provide refunds or credits for cancellations or rescheduling requests made fewer than 24 hours before the start time of class, if you miss your class, or arrive too late to participate.
Our classes are for adults. If you have a child under 18 interested in taking a class, please contact us before enrolling.
Liability & Safety
All students must agree to the following upon registering for a class or workshop at Still Life Studio:
Waivers and Safety for Ceramic Classes and Studio Use
- Students will follow all instructions by teacher.
- Students will not load, unload or operate the kilns.
- Long hair should be tied back.
- Do not wear articles of clothing or jewelry that hang off the body.
- Closed footwear is required.
- Do not use any equipment without a staff member present.
- SLS will provide safety glasses or gloves upon request.
- All completed work must be picked up from Still Life Studio no later than 4 weeks after the student’s final class. Still Life Studio is not responsible for any work left longer than 4 weeks. It is the student’s responsibility to pick up their work.
I hereby release and agree to hold Still Life Studio harmless from, and waive on behalf of myself, my heirs, and any personal representatives any and all causes of action, claims, demands, damages, costs, expenses and compensation for damage or loss to myself and/or property that may be caused by any act, or failure to act of the studio, or that may otherwise arise in any way in connection with any services received from Still Life Studio. I understand that this release discharges Still Life Studio from any liability or claim that I, my heirs, or any personal representatives may have against the studio with respect to any bodily injury, illness, death, medical treatment, or property damage that may arise from, or in connection to, any services received from Still Life Studio. This liability waiver and release extends to the studio together with all owners, partners, and employees.
Liability Waiver
In connection with my involvement in ceramic classes at Still Life Studio, I hereby release Still Life Studio, its agents, representatives, successors, or assignees, Still Life Studio management and employees, from all liabilities, actions, claims, damages, demands, costs, and expenses which I am now or in the future have against them, arising out of or in any way connected with my participation in art classes, including enroute to or from the program or its related events. I understand that the waiver includes, but is not limited to, all injuries to me and or loss of injuries to any personal property. I also understand that this waiver includes, but is not limited to, any claims that are based on my alleged negligence or any other action or inaction of any of the above parties.
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By enrolling in a class or workshop, I am acknowledging that I have read and understand the safety instructions and the liability waiver that have been outlined.