Ceramic Tile Glazing Lecture & Workshop with Ken Kohoutek

Ken Kohoutek Lecture & Workshop: Painting with Glaze on Clay Slabs (TWO DAYS)

Registration includes the lecture on Tuesday night 2/18 and the art-making session on Saturday afternoon 2/22.

This Workshop will include a tour of Ken Kohoutek’s exhibition and an introductory class in painting with underglazes on clay tiles. Utilizing a theme of storytelling, participants will create realistic or abstract images including layers of colors and patterns. There will be an option of working with black and white underglazes as well. Each student will be able to create compositions with four 4-inch tiles.

Artist Instructor: Ken Kohoutek

This workshop is offered in conjunction with the new exhibition, Puzzled Paradise: Ceramic Chronicles by Ken Kohoutek. Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents a captivating and visually chaotic exhibition featuring the work of Great Falls ceramic artist, Ken Kohoutek. The body of work on exhibit is the culmination of 8 years of creative expression for the artist. In Puzzled Paradise: Ceramic Chronicles by Ken Kohoutek, the viewer can expect to be thrilled and entertained by an aesthetic that is childlike, 1980’s retro, and futuristic. The imagery is evocative of everyday life experiences expressed through commercial logos, television or movies references, mundane daily events like making morning coffee, or engrained memories of a family trip and recurring dreams.