Join us for this one-day demonstration workshop with the incredibly skilled and talented Linda Cordell as she takes you through her process of constructing an armature and hollowing forms to create intricate and detailed sculptures. This workshop is a special opportunity to learn from Linda and more about her practice.
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Linda Cordell Bio:
Linda Cordell is socially awkward and anesthetizes herself spending mindless hours carving and/painting detailed texture on uncomfortable and/or humorous animal sculptures. A child of the revisionist era, her work re-interprets the figurine enabling animals to break the chains of cuteness and noble savagery and experience brutal fragility. An appreciation of the sublime and ridiculous, a love of beauty and skilled craftsmanship, and the belief that domestic objects are social propaganda all contribute to her work.
Linda Cordell ( born in Norman, OK, lives in Fredonia, NY/Philadelphia, PA) received her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from Louisiana State University. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. Linda has received numerous fellowships including from Evelyn Shapiro Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, New York Foundation, McKnight Foundation and Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably in the Cheongju International Craft Biennale at the National Cheongju Museum in Korea and the International Invitational exhibit at Bernardaud Foundation in France, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, among others. Her work is included in numerous collection including Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Ceramic Research Center.
