Unruly Narratives: A Lecture Panel and Workshops Featuring Master Ceramics Artist Linda Sormin

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A Lecture Panel and Workshops Featuring Master Ceramics Artist Linda Sormin.
August 13th – 30th:


All events taking place at at Louisiana Artworks
725 Howard Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113
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What is the meaning of hand-making in contemporary culture?

Guest artist, Linda Sormin, will be participating in a variety of programming, including lecture, panel, and workshops. Through working in clay and mixed media, this workshop series invites you to engage in the intimate and monumental processes of hand-building and sculptural installation. Beginner to advanced participants are welcome. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Call (504 571-7373 to register.

Workshop no.1 “Mapping Loss and Plenty”

How do "found" and "lost" objects shape the sculptural process? This workshop invites you to explore our human appetite for things through hands-on making, architectural salvage and assemblage. Artist demonstrations, slide talks and discussions will support the main activities of hand-building with found objects and paper-clay directly in a car kiln and large-scale installation in a gallery space. People with pickups, vans and other handy vehicles are encouraged to participate.

Class Schedule:

  • TUESDAY 8.12: 5-9PM
  • WEDNESDAY 8.13: 5-9PM
  • THURSDAY 8.114: 5-9PM

Enrollment limited to 15 participants
Fee: $175 (includes clay, glazes, firings)

Workshop no.2 “Survival Strategies”

Strength and fragility, aggression and vulnerability, balance and collapse - what is a sculpture under threat, and how might that structure behave and misbehave? This workshop involves hands-on experimentation with paper-clay (coils and extrusions), building directly in car kilns and mixed media installation. In addition to artist demonstrations, slide talks and discussions, we will approach the city and the gallery as sites of work and contemplation.

Class Schedule:

  • TUESDAY 8.19: 5-9PM
  • WEDNESDAY 8.20: 5-9PM
  • THURSDAY 8.21: 5-9PM

Enrollment limited to 15 participants
Fee: $175 (includes clay, glazes, firings)

Workshop No.3 “Unruly Narratives”

How might sculpture be ungrounded by language and writing? Artists who write, writers who make, and people curious about either are invited to participate. Through storytelling, personal writings and readings by workshop participants, in tandem with hands-on work in clay and mixed media sculpture, we will explore the intersection of words and form, material and meaning. Artist demonstrations, slide talks and group discussions will support this inter-disciplinary process.

Class Schedule:

  • MONDAY 8.25: 5-9PM
  • WEDNESDAY 8.27: 5-9PM
  • THURSDAY 8.28: 5-9PM

Enrollment limited to 15 participants
Fee: $175 (includes clay, glazes, firings)

Linda Sormin Lecture

Friday August 22, 7-9 pm

In this lecture, Ms. Sormin will conduct a slide lecture of her rich and extensive work. Following the lecture, the artist will engage in a Q & A session with the audience. Like the Art Sessions Panel, this lecture will be free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $3.00.

Tuesday, August 26th - Art Sessions: Process Art & The Found Object

Join us for “Process Art & the Found Object,” the August installment of our “Art Sessions: A Series of Discussions on Visual Contemporary Art” panel series. Panelists will engage a topic of great interest to the contemporary world: the nature and relevance of process art as it relates to the found object as an art practice.

Moderated by: Dawn Dedaux, visual artist
Panelists: William Cordova, Artist, Linda Sormin, Artist, Sally Heller, Artist

Opening Reception in 2nd Floor Gallery of “Salvage” Exhibit

August 30, 6-9 pm. Linda Sormin is a Canadian sculptor based in Providence, Rhode Island.
 Through objects and site- specific installations, Sormin's work
explores issues of fragility and aggression, mobility and survival.
Born in Bangkok, Sormin has a BA in English Literature and worked in
community development for four years in Thailand and Lao PDR. She
studied ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan School of Crafts &
Design (Grad 2001) and Alfred University (MFA 2003).

Sormin's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most
recently in Miami, Surrey (BC), Regina, Toronto, London, New York,
Philadelphia and Taipei. She is currently Assistant Professor of
Ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design.

All events taking place at at Louisiana Artworks
725 Howard Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113
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T: (504) 571-7373 F: (504) 571-7368
INFO@LOUISIANAARTWORKS.ORG

This program is supported by:The National Endowment for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.