4th Saturday Community Workshops are offered free to our Rabun County community.
Ester Lipscomb will teach participants how to hand build clay fairy doors inspired by the wild and beautiful Rabun county landscape. Students will use texture tools, combine multiple clay bodies, hand build sculptural elements to add to their doors, and learn proper pottery techniques to ensure their work survives drying and firing. After building their fairy doors, participants will use Stroke and Coat glazes to add color. After firing, the fairy doors will be suitable for indoor or outdoor display.
All experience levels are welcome.
** Students will leave their fairy doors to dry and to be fired at Hambidge. Students will be alerted via email when finished doors are ready for pickup, approximately six to eight weeks after class.
ELIGIBILTY: Your primary address must be in Rabun County in order to attend this workshop. Upon arriving, you will be asked to show ID with your address.
Space is limited to 8 participants.
Each participant must register separately.
Open to local creatives over the age of 12.
Minors must be accompanied by a participating adult. Minors will not be asked for ID; only adults.
Questions? Email the Hambidge Office at office@hambidge.org.
Our free Community Workshops are supported in part by the Lake Rabun Foundation.
About the Workshop Instructor
Potter Ester Lipscomb lives in Rabun county and creates work from her studio in Lakemont. Many know her from her six years as a resident potter at Mark of the Potter, the oldest craft shop in Georgia. She has shown work in galleries, museums and arts festivals across the United States and is in private collections around the world. She loves making the arts accessible through her pottery scavenger hunts, classes for kids during the library’s summer reading program, working with special needs afterschool programs, and the many workshops she teaches in Rabun county and beyond. www.esterlipscomb.com