Kimball Art Center

Park City, Utah Art Center

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1 Day Welding Workshop

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Using MIG welders, oxygen/acetylene torches, plasma cutters, grinders, shapers, and cut-off tools, students will learn metalworking and metal sculpture design. Each date is a separate workshop with its own project and finished piece.

Course Goals: Explore the fun of completing a project with steel, using basic metal cutting and welding equipment.  Wear cotton or leather clothing, bring gloves and eye protection if you have them.  Welding helmets, ear and eye protection, gloves will be provided.

No. of attendees – 4. 

Plein Air Painting: The Living Landscape

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How do you translate the wild complexity, vibrancy, and constant motion of the natural world into a painting that actually feels alive?

Join Johnny DeFeo for three immersive days of plein air exploration, where landscape becomes both subject and teacher. Together, we’ll investigate how to identify the essential qualities of a place—its light, rhythm, atmosphere, and energy—and transform those observations into fully realized works of art.

The workshop blends short lectures and demonstrations with both quick studies and longer-form paintings, all created on location. Rather than a traditional “paint-along,” instruction is intentionally intimate and responsive, with frequent mini-critiques and one-on-one guidance. The focus is on helping you develop your own visual language and body of work.

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

  • Confidently identify and articulate the essence of natural elements
  • Generate meaningful prompts to guide future studio practice
  • Create paintings that feel personal, descriptive, and deeply connected to place

Participants should bring their own supplies and have prior painting experience, such as a beginner class, and are ready to deepen their practice. This workshop is designed for artists ready to deepen their relationship with landscape and push their work beyond observation into expression.

$325 early bird until May 1st! Price goes up to $375 after.

Plein Air Painting_ Material List

 

Paper Making Workshop

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Use natural fibers to transform raw materials into beautiful sheets of paper.  Plunge your hands into vats of swirling fibers and then pull, couch, and press, to form your own unique pieces.  Plan on creating about 12 sheets of paper in a two hour class.  Papermaking can be messy- be prepared and wear art-making clothes.  Learn what an amazing art form paper can be.

Throwing Large Forms and Surface Decoration

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In this two-day workshop, expect to learn how to create large forms on the potter’s wheel and explore surface decoration using Sgraffito and Mishima techniques through demonstrations and hands-on practice. On Day 1, you’ll focus on working with large, stacked forms using porcelain. On Day 2, you’ll learn to apply surface decoration techniques, including Sgraffito and Mishima. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have gained new skills to create larger pieces and incorporate unique imagery into your pottery. This class is for intermediate & advanced wheel throwers.

Workshop Agenda- Matt Conlon Large Forms & Sgraffito_ Mishima

Matt Conlon Website

Artist Statement 2024

Artist Bio 2024

Advancing your Glaze Game Workshop

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Advancing your Glaze Game is a two-day in-depth workshop on developing strategies and styles for those with beginner to advanced ceramic experience. Students should expect to gain a broad understanding of how glaze and surface materials are structured, application techniques, and troubleshooting post-fired work. The workshop will include related research and examples while encouraging experimentation and group collaboration.

Surface techniques for greenware work will include using colored clay, underglazes, slips, and other pre-bisque options. Glaze applications will include layering interaction, creating depth and texture, glaze mistakes, and refiring work. Students should come with an understanding of the basics of working in clay. Attendees are highly encouraged to bring at least one bisque piece for testing techniques. 

AGENDA:

Day 1: 10am – 5pm (with break for lunch)

  • Presentation and Group Think on developing research, strategy, and style for your work
  • Technical Approaches in the Greenware State
    • Colored clay
    • Underglazes, slips, washes, stains
    • Pre-bisque decisions & finishing your work with glazing in mind

Day 2: 10am – 5pm (with break for lunch)

  • Presentation and Group Think on understanding “what is a glaze”
  • Technical Approaches to Glaze Layering
    • Variations in Glaze Interaction
    • Creating Depth & Texture
    • Troubleshooting, glaze mistakes, refiring
    • Post-glaze techniques

Sketch, Paint and Go: How to Complete a Travel Sketchbook

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This course will focus on developing skills and techniques that will help you have a more successful experience sketching outdoors or while traveling.  This class will include some discussion about design, layout, materials and general tips as well as drawing and sketching exercises. We will experiment with a variety of materials including pencil, pen, ink, and watercolor paints.  

We will break for lunch (one hour).  Please bring your own lunch.

See 2025 Kimball sketch supply list

Instructor: Barbara Kidd