Image + Clay: Exploring Mixed Media Ceramics with Yana Payusova

Event Description

In today’s contemporary art landscape, where mixed media is increasingly prominent, exploring the development of 2D imagery for 3D forms offers a timely approach in ceramics. This two-week immersive workshop investigates the intersection of photography, digital processes, and ceramics, encouraging students to combine and expand these media in innovative ways.Focusing on narrative development, participants work with personal, found, or generated images to create compelling visual stories on clay surfaces. The workshop emphasizes the conceptual potential of photographic imagery and pictorial illustration, guiding students in designing and producing photographic decals for transfer onto fired ceramic forms. Students will handbuild forms, then move into image preparation, design, and transfer techniques.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have gained both technical skills and conceptual strategies to integrate 2D and 3D elements seamlessly, opening new possibilities for contemporary ceramic practice.