Heirloom Artist Talks: Casey Beck
Saturday June 13th 10am - 5pm [ Lunch 12-1 ]
Location: 8302 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97202
Join us for a one day Artist talk and demonstration-based workshop with Casey Beck
Casey Beck will share his various day to day studio processes both at the wheel and at the table. He will demonstrate his handbuilt plate making and the process of creating the bisque molds used for the plates. At the wheel he will demonstrate various forms, including cups, jugs and altered forms while sharing his thoughts on interior / exterior relationships and creating process information to add depth to the clay surface.
The Day will include an artist talk, demonstration, and hands on time to try out the Treadle Wheel! All materials and tools provided.
Learn more about Casey:
Website: https://www.beckpots.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beckpots
Casey Beck is a studio potter and a recent Master of Fine Arts graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His current research focuses on the process of soda firing, which utilizes sodium carbonate, and its volatilization inside the kiln at peak temperature to glaze his wares.
After completion of his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in 2019, Beck spent two years living and working in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. During this time, he continued to make pottery and research soda firing, work in the Sales Gallery at Northern Clay Center (NCC), and taught classes. Beck has been a resident artist at the Cub Creek Foundation in Virginia and Faenza Art Ceramic Center in Italy, was awarded the 2020 Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant through NCC, was a 2023 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist and has taught firing and making workshops internationally.
Outside of the studio, Beck takes pleasure in using handmade pots and eating delicious home cooked meals off of them with his friends while listening to music fitted for each experience.