This class involves using a printed image and merging it with a dimensional form during the paper casting process. Andrea and Jon use clay moulds because of their durability, lightweight and ease to recycle. Jon Hook, ceramic artist and expert in clay mold making, will lead participants in the construction of a clay mold using natural forms or something you bring to the class. This will be used as a future tool for your casting paper projects. During the class, Andrea Peterson, paper/print artist, will lead you through the casting process with print inclusion with fired clay moulds.  Students may bring printed image to try otherwise a selection will be available for experimentation.

Materials to Bring:  Objects that could fit in two hands to cast (optional)

Workshop Fee: $150

Date & Time: Thursday, October 16, 2014 :: 1:00-4:00PM

Location: This workshop will take place at 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

About the Instructors | Jon Hook & Andrea Peterson

Studio ceramic artist, Jon Hook, creates sculptural work and functional pottery. He received his BFA from Hope College, Holland, MI in 1986. He continued his own independent research of kilns and pottery in the Midwest. In 1997 he co-opened Hook Pottery Paper in northwest Indiana with his wife, Andrea Peterson. He has built his own kilns since 1987 in which he only fires with wood. The wood firing for Jon is a passion. He finds that wood firing is an intense and industrious process. The work emphasizes the use of local materials such as local clay, straw, and cattails adding color in the form of ash glaze to the surface of the wood fired ceramics. Jon and his family live and work in an atmosphere free from the distractions of technology. Consistent with this lifestyle, his works reference environmental responsibility alongside an exploration of natural forms. Jon’s work is a reflection of his immense respect and concern for the environment he lives in. He creates glazes from the ash of his wood stove that heats the studio and collects rainwater in barrels to use. The work that is produced is like no other due to the wood fly ash and plant fiber introduced into the glaze chamber during firing.

Jon‘s work is in numerable private collections across the country. He exhibits his work nationally. He has exhibited at Krasl Art Center, St. Joe, MI, Phoenix Gallery, NYC, Lubeznik Center, Michigan City, IN, Doug Fogelson Gallery, Chicago, IL, Pink Gallery, Oak Park, IL as well as in his own gallery and studio, Hook Pottery Paper. He teaches and conducts workshops at his own studio as well as at The Krasl Art Center, Lubeznik Center for the Arts and others. He is a 2014 grant recipient from the Indiana Arts Commission.

Andrea Peterson is an artist and educator based in Laporte, Indiana. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1994 and BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently teaches papermaking and book arts from her studio Hook Pottery Paper and abroad. She co-operates Hook Pottery Paper, which is a joint venture with her husband ceramic artist, Jon Hook. At this studio she creates her artwork, conducts paper research and production paper that is sold internationally. She is a 2014 grant recipient from the Indiana Arts Commission.

She creates paper art works and relief printed images on handmade sheets of paper that have utilized pulp-drawing techniques. She also creates site-specific installation work and book art pieces. Most of her work can be found in private collections as a well as a few corporate collections such as Hollister clothing, Chicago. Her worked has been exhibited internationally such as Deggendorf Museum, Germany, Steyermuhl Paper Museum, Austria, Scoula di Grafica, Venice, Italy; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, Columbia College Chicago Book and Paper Center, IL, Frankfurt Library, IN; Lubeznik Art Center, Michigan City, IN. She has conducted workshops and lectures at Paper Museum in University Georgia Athens - Cortona, Italy, Steyermuhl, Austria; Scoula di Grafica, Venice, Italy; University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY; Friends of Dard Hunter national papermaking conferences.