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2-Day Mold-Making Workshop with Artist-in-Residence Cat Gunn

2-Day Mold-Making Workshop with Artist-in-Residence Cat Gunn

$150.00 USD
$150.00 USD
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Join ICA Artist-in-Residence Cat Gunn to learn the fundamentals of designing and constructing a simple plaster mold for slip casting! In this hands-on introductory workshop, you’ll learn to create a functional mold ready for casting through guided demonstrations and step-by-step instruction. Bring your own object to cast, and by the end of the day, you’ll leave with your own handmade mold and the skills to continue exploring slip-cast ceramics independently.

Participants are welcome to bring objects to use for their sprig molds. Sprig molds can be made using almost any object or hand-modeled relief that does not have undercuts. (Undercut— a detail in an object where the clay or casting catches and will not pull free without breaking or distorting). Suggested objects include seashells, buttons, acorns, hand-carved patterns, and other objects with a shallow relief. 

Instructor: Cat Gunn

Date(s): Saturday & Sunday, July 25-26

Time: 10AM–1PM

Tuition: Non-member $150, General Membership and above $135 (Please use discount code: ICAMEMBERSAVE at checkout)

Note that all classes are subject to minimum enrollment. Enrolling early prevents classes from being canceled, and ensures your placement in them!

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Cancel up to 7 days before the start of class for a full refund. Cancellations less than 7 days before the start of class are ineligible for refund.

Instructor Bio: 

Originally from Baltimore, Cat Gunn (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans imagemaking, installation, sculpture, ceramics, painting, and drawing. Using deconstructed altars, archival sites, and domestic spaces as a site of investigation, Gunn stages arrangements of ceramic sculptures, images, plants, found objects, and material experiments. These works interrogate how objects mediate relationships and memories. Working to honor their own Filipinx heritage they have reclaimed through their research, they also evaluate the colonial relationship and imperial impacts of the US occupation of the Philippines from 1898-1946, questioning what we understand to be settled histories. With the use of historical Filipino archives and a modest familial archive, their work offers a portal where divergent timelines can intersect, dreaming of what was, what could have been, and what will be.

Gunn received their MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, where they expanded their practice into the realms of ceramics, sculpture, and installation. They received their MA in Professional Studies (Art History Concentration) and BFA in Painting from Towson University. Gunn has had their work included in recent group exhibitions at ICA in San Diego, Vielmetter in Los Angeles, and BEST PRACTICE in San Diego among others. Gunn also co-founded Harvest & Gather, an experimental, nomadic curatorial project run in San Diego with collaborator and friend, mika Castañeda.
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