Historic Tile Painting Workshop Overview:

This new and exciting 3-day workshop is being taught at Traditional Building Skills Institute. In recent years, a remarkable revival of interest in decorative tiles has taken place.

This course offers a hands-on workshop where students will learn the ancient art of making and decorating ceramic tiles. The hand decorating of ceramic tiles, which heretofore has been a predominantly European tradition, is rarely taught in the United States. Most clay artists consider this technique to be a proprietary skill, seldom sharing their knowledge with others.

This is your opportunity to learn and have a thorough understanding of the manufacture and history of tile making and tile decorating. The student will learn how to adapt any design and transfer it using mylar and special copy paper. The student will become very familiar with all phases of hand decorating, including using the "banding wheel", special brushes for specific designs and finally, different glazes for different effects.

This workshop includes a field trip to the Snow College Ceramic Art Studio to observe the final stages of loading a kiln and firing your tiles. A brief demonstration on how to cut tiles on a wet saw and different installation techniques will also be presented by an expert.

Best of all, you will come away from this workshop having learned a valuable new skill, a skill that does not require special studio space or hard-to-obtain materials. Any ceramic shop in your area is happy to fire, for a small fee, your finished tiles.

Dates:
GBEEC Summer Workshop - July 31-August 2, 2008
College Campus date: November 13-15, 2008

For information call (435) 283-7572

or fax (435) 283-6913 or Register Online