Brown Arts

Exploring the Work of Franklin Williams: Layering, Patterning and Loving in Clay

October 22 & 29
WORKSHOP | CERAMICS
Two ceramics workshops facilitated by local ceramicist Judd Schiffman.

 

Exploring the Work of Franklin Williams: Layering, Patterning and Loving in Clay
October 22 & 29, 2024 | 5:30pm — 7:30pm
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street

 

Facilitated by local ceramicist Judd Schiffman, the workshop takes a close look at how Franklin Williams uses shape, repetition, and mark making to build patterns in his work on view at The Bell. Participants will identify frequently used shapes and patterns in Williams’ work to build a visual vocabulary before having the opportunity to use techniques of mark making and glaze application on clay tiles which will be fired and returned to The Bell for pick-up at a later date.

Presented by Brown Arts Institute and The Bell. Free and open to the public. Registration is required and space is limited. Presented by Brown Arts Institute and The Bell.

About the Artist

Judd Schiffman (b. 1982) is a Providence, Rhode Island based artist working primarily in ceramics. He has lectured at Harvard University Ceramics and Brown University, and participated in residencies at the Zentrum Fur Keramiks in Berlin, Germany and Arch Contemporary in Tiverton, Rhode Island. Schiffman received his MFA from the University of Colorado in 2015, and his BA from Prescott College in 2007. Schiffman’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, most recently at Headstone Gallery, Kingston, NY and Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami. In 2016, he received an emerging artists award from the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts. Schiffman is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Providence College.

About the Exhibition

Bursting with color, texture, and organic form, the intensely personal work of Franklin Williams (b.1940 in Ogden, UT; lives and works in Petaluma, CA) sustains a tension between figuration and abstraction. In rigorous yet whimsical artworks, Williams tenderly evokes familial and romantic love, death, sorrow, lust, and humor. On view at The Bell and List Lobby. September 19 – December 8, 2024. Learn more.