Visiting Artist - Kevin Crowe
Saturday, May 17 & Sunday, May 18th, 10:00-5:00pm
We’re thrilled to welcome Kevin Crowe, owner and potter at Tye River Pottery, to the studio for an in depth, weekend long wheel throwing intensive. The theme: Taking Risks!
This 2-Day intensive will focus on exploring those forms we have kept at arms length, just out of reach.. at the edge of the wheel where avoidance lives. We’ll examine the blocks, both technical and aesthetic, that lie between us and those pots we want to make. This intensive is best suited for intermediate and advanced wheel throwers. Students should be able to center, pull up, and throw basic forms such as bowls and cylinders unassisted. Come to class with an understanding of where you reach your limit on the wheel and an idea of what pieces you’d like to push yourself to try. Read more about Kevin below!
The class fee includes a 25-lb bag of clay and firing for that first bag; additional bags of clay can be purchased and will require a $3/lb firing fee.
This is a weekend long intensive and will run on May 17 & 18th, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00-5:00pm. All wares should be taken home with you at the end of the day on Sunday May 18th or placed on the greenware shelf for firing as this intensive does not allow for storage.
Bring a bag lunch both days and some snacks for snacking!
Please check our FAQ’s page for additional information on the studio and read our Cancelation Policy prior to booking!
This is a 2 day course and each session is 7 hours long. Tools are available but it is suggested that you bring your own or purchase a kit from the studio! There must be 7 students registered to confirm.
Saturday, May 17 & Sunday, May 18th, 10:00-5:00pm
We’re thrilled to welcome Kevin Crowe, owner and potter at Tye River Pottery, to the studio for an in depth, weekend long wheel throwing intensive. The theme: Taking Risks!
This 2-Day intensive will focus on exploring those forms we have kept at arms length, just out of reach.. at the edge of the wheel where avoidance lives. We’ll examine the blocks, both technical and aesthetic, that lie between us and those pots we want to make. This intensive is best suited for intermediate and advanced wheel throwers. Students should be able to center, pull up, and throw basic forms such as bowls and cylinders unassisted. Come to class with an understanding of where you reach your limit on the wheel and an idea of what pieces you’d like to push yourself to try. Read more about Kevin below!
The class fee includes a 25-lb bag of clay and firing for that first bag; additional bags of clay can be purchased and will require a $3/lb firing fee.
This is a weekend long intensive and will run on May 17 & 18th, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00-5:00pm. All wares should be taken home with you at the end of the day on Sunday May 18th or placed on the greenware shelf for firing as this intensive does not allow for storage.
Bring a bag lunch both days and some snacks for snacking!
Please check our FAQ’s page for additional information on the studio and read our Cancelation Policy prior to booking!
This is a 2 day course and each session is 7 hours long. Tools are available but it is suggested that you bring your own or purchase a kit from the studio! There must be 7 students registered to confirm.
Saturday, May 17 & Sunday, May 18th, 10:00-5:00pm
We’re thrilled to welcome Kevin Crowe, owner and potter at Tye River Pottery, to the studio for an in depth, weekend long wheel throwing intensive. The theme: Taking Risks!
This 2-Day intensive will focus on exploring those forms we have kept at arms length, just out of reach.. at the edge of the wheel where avoidance lives. We’ll examine the blocks, both technical and aesthetic, that lie between us and those pots we want to make. This intensive is best suited for intermediate and advanced wheel throwers. Students should be able to center, pull up, and throw basic forms such as bowls and cylinders unassisted. Come to class with an understanding of where you reach your limit on the wheel and an idea of what pieces you’d like to push yourself to try. Read more about Kevin below!
The class fee includes a 25-lb bag of clay and firing for that first bag; additional bags of clay can be purchased and will require a $3/lb firing fee.
This is a weekend long intensive and will run on May 17 & 18th, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00-5:00pm. All wares should be taken home with you at the end of the day on Sunday May 18th or placed on the greenware shelf for firing as this intensive does not allow for storage.
Bring a bag lunch both days and some snacks for snacking!
Please check our FAQ’s page for additional information on the studio and read our Cancelation Policy prior to booking!
This is a 2 day course and each session is 7 hours long. Tools are available but it is suggested that you bring your own or purchase a kit from the studio! There must be 7 students registered to confirm.
About the Instructor
Kevin Crowe works in the Blue Ridge foothills, where he lives with his wife Linda. He built his own home and studio in the woods of Nelson County, Virginia where his sons Bram and Kai also live. Kevin has been making pots in his studio at Tye River Pottery for over forty years. He produces wood-fired functional stoneware with strong Asian and English roots. His work ranges from 4” tea bowls to 48” vases. Kevin's pots are fired in a 450 cubic foot anagama that he rebuilt in 2017. Firings last 7 days, consuming 8 cords of wood and firing 1500 to 2000 pots. The kiln is fired twice a year when the moon is right and it's not soccer season. He teaches throwing, firing and kiln building workshops far and wide and offers weekend workshops at his pottery.
Artist Statement
I fire my kiln with wood, a labor-intensive process with no short cuts. Stoking pine late at night, we arrive at an aesthetic that is quiet and contemplative; one that requires the public to meet it halfway. I make pots that ask for – and give – more than a sensitivity to interior design. I want my work to touch that distant quiet place in each of us. Balance, home, grace. I make large bowls and serving platters to encourage the ritual sharing of food by many hands – a time that will return. Larger vessels harken back to a time when these were our large storage containers. They are my expression of hope.
The potter’s work is healing work. It affirms and celebrates the dignity of food stored, prepared and shared in joyful awareness and assures us that the solution to the environmental and community crisis lies under our feet. And that it is worth standing on and for.