John Dix: Artist Talk and Demo

Sunday August 23rd, 2026, 10am-1pm

Fee: $30

Limit: 18 participants 

Sliding scale offered by using coupon codes at registration:

WS25%OFF = $22.50 registration fee

WS50%OFF = $15 registration fee

WS75%OFF = $7.50 registration fee

Join us for a conversation about John’s artistic journey, how living and working in Japan have influenced his art practice and his love of the unpredictable nature of wood firing.  

John will be doing a demo of altered thrown forms, showing his signature techniques for 'stretching' clay, forming unique spouts and handles and how he incorporates slabs to thrown pieces.

Artist Bio: 

John Dix has spent most of his artistic career primarily in Japan, based in Tanba-Sasayama, an ancient pottery region and one of Japan's "Six Ancient Pottery Kiln Sites".  His art displays a strong Japanese influence, but still retains elements of his early training in the West.  He has built a studio, two anagama style kilns and a workshop-hosting facility named Fieldwork.  He fires his kilns two to three times a year for up to 7 days a firing.  John has been sharing his techniques through workshops around the world for many years and hosts visitors and students at Fieldwork.

Website: https://www.johndix.com

IG: @johndixstudio 

Link to an interesting article illustrating the magical and serendipitous process of wood firing: https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/daily/article/A-New-Pots-Story

9:30am: Social time with coffee and nibbles.

10am-1pm Artist Talk and Demo

Questions? Email workshop@rubysclaystudio.org

The studio reserves the right to cancel the workshop if there are not enough registrations, in which case refunds will be issued