Summer Session Schedule 2010 
Pre-Session Work Week, May 30 - June 4 An opportunity to trade labor for time and space at Watershed. Session I, June 6 - 18, Joe Batt Invites Artists - Session FULL  Fae Marie Beck (WA) Robin Ewing (WA) Aimee Biggerstaff (WA) Paul Northway (TX) Kelly Connole (MN) Maxwell Stolkin (Germany) Kensuke Yamada (MT) Figurative ceramic artist and musician, Joe Batt, is originally from South Dakota. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of South Dakota and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Montana. Currently, Joe is full time art faculty at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington. His ceramics have been exhibited widely in galleries and museums around the country, including Contemporary Crafts gallery in Portland, Oregon and the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana. Session II, June 20 - July 2, Wood Kiln Building with Guest Aritsts Dan Murphy, Dean Adams, Trevor Dunn - Limited space available 
Dan, Dean and Trevor will be leading a group to construct and fire a wood-fired Train Kiln at Watershed’s new Kiln Annex. Kiln building is the focus of the session; however, there will ample time to make work in preparation for the firing. Dan Murphy has twenty years of experience firing wood-burning kilns and was recently invited to participate in the “First International Anagama Seminar” at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Murphy is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Utah State University.  Dean Adams maintains a studio practice in Bozeman, Montana and is an adjunct
faculty member at Montana State University in Bozeman. Adams’ architectonic sculptures
are informed by churches, mountains and prehistoric Japanese sculpture, and are designed
and constructed with the wood kiln in mind. He has been firing and building wood-fired
kilns for more than 16 years. Trevor Dunn has been wood firing his ceramics since 1996. He received
his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2009. and most recently he
received the 2009 NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship Award for a proposed study
and film project in Jianxi, China. Dunn has been on faculty at San Juan College since 1999.
Session III, July 4-16, Rebekah Bogard and Kristen Kieffer Invite Artists - Opposites Attract - Session FULL 
Kurt Anderson (OH) Kathy King (MA) Mark Burns (NV) Phyllis Kloda (NY) Jason H. Green (NY) Lorna Meaden (CO) Bryan Hiveley (FL) Nick Sevigney (NH) This session is a diverse group of artists selected specifically for their differences. By including such an assorted group of people, a true microcosm of the wide field of ceramics is represented in order to build bridges and garner a greater understanding and appreciation. Rebekah Bogard has shown in several solo and group exhibitions nation wide. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, LA Times, Artweek, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, and Clay Times Magazine. Kristen Kieffer is a full-time studio potter and workshops instructor. She exhibits nationally and her work is in numerous public and private collections. 
Session
IV, July 18 - 30, Hayne Bayless Invites Artists - Session FULL
Mary Barringer (MA) Eve Behar (NY) Malcolm Davis (WV) Olivia Hurd (CA) Thacher Hurd (CA) Lance Stover (MA) Lana Wilson (CA) Catherine White (VA) Hayne Bayless is a studio potter in Ivoryton, CT, who managed to avoid any formal instruction in ceramics. Hayne abandoned wheel-throwing early on, preferring the freedom of hand-building. He’s been awarded the top prizes at the Smithsonian Craft Show and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Session V, August 1 - 13, Guest Artists Sequoia Miller & Jean Hicks - Limited space available 
Sequoia and Jean have had a close artistic friendship for
15 years. They came of age together in the Pacific Northwest,
emerging as leaders in their respective fields. Through their
relationship they have contributed to the growth and shape of
each other’s work. While they exhibit and travel together, the
two have never explicitly collaborated on a creative project.
This session will be a time to explore the possibility of collaboration:
two artists who have tinkered around the edges of working together
having the opportunity to actually go at it. We hope you join us in this sticky, furry exploration. Sequoia Miller was born in Manhattan and raised in the craft community of Maine. Sequoia moved to the Pacific Northwest after a series of craft school workshops and set up a small pottery in an abandoned boat shack in 1995. He has been a relentless full-time studio potter since 1998. Sequoia exhibits his work at craft stores and galleries nationally, including Lacoste, Snyderman/Works and June Fitzpatrick.  Jean Hicks developed her unique perspective over two decades of experience, work and
travel. She holds degrees in history, Spanish and education.
As a maker, she studied classical millinery under Wayne Wichern. Developing her own distinctive
style of hand-blocked felt has lead Jean Hicks not only to found Erratica Handmade Felt but also
to solo shows, theatrical collaborations and interior design, and 2005-2006 Artist Trust and
Washington State Arts Commission Fellowships.
 Session
VI, August 15 - 27, Guest Artists Nina Hole & Ann-Charlotte Ohlsson - Limited space available
Schooled in Denmark and in the United States Nina Hole has established two distinct styles of work in her career. Her monumental ceramic sculptures evolved from the idea of creating large site-built works that could be constructed and fired in two-weeks. As much about the process as the product, these immense ceramic structures enjoy a commonailty through the modular slab-built unit which Nina employs to construct them; yet each is distinct because of their location, and the enigmatic architectural and cultural reference they carry. Nina's smaller works reference architecture at an intimate scale with an ancient appearance in both form and surface. 
A member of the International Academy of Ceramics, and co-founder of the International Ceramic Centre Guldagergård, Denmark, Nina has to her credit numerous international exhibitions, commissions, lectures, and demonstrations. Her work can be found in such museum collections as Fuping Keramik Museum, China, Taipei Country Yingo Ceramics Museum, Taiwan, and Universtiy of Wales, Aberystwyth. back to top |