On March 19 and 20, the St. Petersburg College’s Ceramics Studio at the Clearwater Campus of SPC hosted Eva Champagne,  a visiting artist from Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Fl.

During her two-day workshop,  Champagne worked on a number of ceramic pieces, including two large sculptures. She shared her construction techniques and decoration methods in which she uses layers of underglaze, wax and glazes to create surfaces of great depth. Both SPC students and community members in attendance learned a lot and had tons of great questions.

During both days, Champagne also shared stories of growing up in Hong Kong,  as well as her number of ceramic residencies including Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Bali and the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. It was wonderful to have Eva Champagne conduct this workshop,  and she joins the list of other artists who we have hosted in Ceramics including Trevor Dunn, Josh DeWeese and Tara Wilson.

For more information about Champagne, check out her website and artist statement below:

Eva Champagne is an American artist who grew up in Hong Kong, one of the great cultural melting pots of the world. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from Humboldt State University and completed Post-Baccalaureate study at the University of Florida. In 2009 she earned her M.F.A. from the University of Montana-Missoula. Since then, she has been a resident artist at AIR Vallauris in France,  Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, Red Lodge Clay Center and The Clay Studio of Missoula in Montana, and most recently at Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Bali, Indonesia.

As an educator, she teaches successfully in both the academic and workshop setting. Ceramic subjects include wheel throwing, handbuilding, soda firing at low, mid and highfire temperatures, low-fire ceramic surface techniques, as well as thematic sculptural topicss. Other media courses include beginning and advanced drawing, figure drawing, painting, 2D and 3D design and understanding visual arts. For the 2012-13 academic year, she was visiting artist and adjunct professor at Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Florida where she taught drawing and painting. Currently she is adjunct professor at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, which is ranked in the top ten of community colleges nationwide for the second year in a row. Her work is shown  nationally and internationally.