4 Sept, 11 Sept, 18 Sept, 25 Sept
ABOUT ME
I'm Pheona, the founder of Clay to Plate, a potter, a good cook &
a free spirit, who enjoys life
Moondobang
20 Sep - 21 Sep
22 Sep - 23 Sep
Fully Booked - Registration Closed
Instagram sensation, MoonDoBang creator Mr. Moon, Byung Sik, will make his first visit to Europe starting of the tour in our studio in The Netherlands then to Belgium and last stop in Paris. It is a treat and it is going to be a memorable days learning from this renowned potter.
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At the age of 16, Moon Byung Sik fell in love with clay. He had passion, but the skills didn’t come easily. It took him 10 times longer to finish a pot than some of his peers, but with perseverance and practice, he began to win skills competitions.
Post college, at 26, Moon started a studio practice inside his father’s barn with the idea that he would make pots he likes to make and—he reasoned—people would buy them. He soon discovered that what he wanted to make was not what customers wanted to buy. Competing for buyers with other potters who had 20, 30, or 40 years of experience was challenging.
As he reflects on his path today, starting at a young age was his best decision. He made mistakes and had failures due to his lack of experience, but he says that he was able to put aside his failures more easily and continue moving forward because he had less to lose.
17 years after he first sat at a pottery wheel,
Moon operates a professional workshop where he produces his porcelain products and sells them from his gallery and shop in Yeoju, South Korea. He ships worldwide from his website www.moondobang.com Follow him on Instagram @moondobang
Throw big and complex piece with Jonah Fleeger
20 March to 21 March 2025 (2 full days)
Fully Booked - Registragion Closed
​Coil Throwing
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Dive deep into the process of coil throwing in order to make larger or more complex work on the potters wheel. Jonah will demonstrate his process for squeezing & rolling out large coils, attaching & pinching of coils and coil throwing. He will talk about using a torch to quickly dry pieces and the tools used to create his unique pieces. Jonah has been working with clay for 19 years and has been coil throwing for the past 9 years, so you can expect to learn various tips and tricks related to handling more unique shapes, minimizing water usage, controlling clay moisture while working, double-ribbing, firing style and more!
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Jonah Fleeger is a ceramic artist originally from Northwest Indiana. Fleeger attended a small boarding school called Verde Valley School, in Sedona, Arizona, which is where his love for ceramics first started.
In 2013, he received his BFA in ceramics from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating he moved into a studio at the Lillstreet art center in Chicago where he taught ceramics and made glazes for the department. Since then he has completed post-baccalaureate programs at The University of Colorado Boulder and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2019, Fleeger received his MFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduate school he was a resident artist at the Morean Center for Clay in Florida (2019-2020) and a resident artist at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project in California (2020-2022).
Currently, he is an adjunct professor of ceramics at the Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.