Ceramic Drinking Vessels with Jared Janovec

Concept

Drinking vessels are perhaps the most common utilitarian vessel forms used by humans throughout history, and the most common objects used by people on a day-to-day basis. These vessels provide the maker and the user with the unique chance, and welcomed challenge, to consider both form and function as inextricably linked opportunities to create visually engaging and user-friendly objects. Whether your preferred beverage on any given day is water, coffee, or something more unique, the various types of drinking vessels are worthy of consideration and exploration.

Experience

Through demonstrations, presentations, and hands-on practice, learn about, explore, and create cups, tumblers, teacups, mugs, and teabowls using the potter's wheel, hand building methods, and simple armature and molds. Emphasis is placed on surface enhancement through textural and underglaze application techniques to personalize each vessel. Jared provides individualized instruction throughout. Blend form and surface as you develop unique, creative, utilitarian ceramic drinking vessels.

Skill Level

Designed for the beginning level ceramics student and also welcome to those who are of intermediate or greater experience.

Instructor

After mentoring thousands of students, Jared Janovec has found the most important gift he can provide is encouraging, developing, and promoting critical thinking and problem solving in the classroom. At the foundation of Jared’s personal ceramics practice is a deep curiosity and reverence for the natural world and human history. When not making work, he enjoys hiking, camping, gardening, foraging wild foods, making music, and coaching youth soccer. Jared earned his MFA from Indiana University and is an Associate Professor at UW-Whitewater.