Beth Lo – Handbuilding Small Figures
The Ceramic School
Hi, my name is Beth Lo, and in this workshop, I will demonstrate how I build a hollow figure of one of my "good children" characters from porcelain, and I will talk a little about abstraction, proportion, gesture and emotion as well as my motives behind my aesthetic choices.
When you buy this workshop, you get:
- Watch my Online Workshop
- The workshop will be around 1 hour long.
- Bonus Q&A
- Join my bonus Q&A where I answered questions about my process face-to-face
- Lifetime Access to the Replays
- The workshop and the Q&A are recorded, and you will have lifetime access to it. You can watch it online, or download it to your device to watch offline at any time
After this workshop, you could be making amazing work like this:








Ceramist and mixed media artist Beth Lo makes work about family, culture and language. Her Good Children vessels and sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has been the recipient of a United States Artist Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and an American Craft Museum Design Award. She is also a children’s book illustrator and professional bass player. She retired after 30 years of teaching ceramics at the University of Montana in 2016.
Instagram: #bethloceramics
Website: bethlo.com
Course content
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