Attendees gathered and focused on creating their artwork during the Ceramic Monoprint workshop with Pond Farm Pottery’s October Artist in Residence, Antje Halter. Photo by Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods.
Pond Farm Pottery’s October Artist in Residence, Antje Halter, hosted a monoprint workshop at the Blue Door Gallery in Guerneville on October 16th. Twenty people gathered and created their own art pieces, expressing their creativity through the technique they learned from Antje, a combination of printing and drawing. The pieces were kiln fired and made available for participants to pick up.
Antje Halter is a painter and ceramicist. She lives and works in Halle an der Saale in Germany, known for the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and in the immediate vicinity between the Bauhaus Weimar and Dessau. Halter finds inspiration in human interaction, in drawing plants, animals and landscapes. In a fast-paced world, her works convey nostalgic feelings of security and mindful happiness. “They are the food we humans need to grow and thrive.”
From 1996 to 2003 Halter studied art at Burg Giebichenstein in the ceramics department, where Marguerite Friedlaender Wildenhain was head of the ceramics studio from 1929 to 1933 which significantly influenced modern ceramics and whose design influence can still be felt today. Marguerite was the first woman to receive the designation of Master Potter in pre-World War II. After leaving Germany, she accepted an invitation from Gordon and Jane Herr to help create a 140-acre experimental artists’ colony in Guerneville.
A close-up of tools from the ceramic monoprint workshop. and designs featuring sketches of flowers, rabbits, a seahorse and text. Photo by Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods.
