Class #360: For the Love of Clay, Sculpture with Debra Balchen
Session | Available
A hands-on sculptural journey into the expressive language of clay. Working from a live model, students explore form, structure, proportion and surface while developing both technical skill and a personal artistic voice.
Sculpture is not just learned—it is experienced. In real time, your eye develops. Your hands understand. Through individual guidance, observation and focused studio time, students learn to see the human form more clearly and translate what they see into clay.
The class welcomes beginners as well as experienced artists. Each student is encouraged to work at their own pace in a supportive, relaxed and inspiring studio environment.
Course fee includes
• A fresh bag of clay
• An armature
• Use of class tools
• Printed handouts
• Firing of your finished sculpture after it has dried completely
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- There’s a $60 model fee, payable directly to the instructor at any point during the course.
This class meets in our first floor studio in the coach house.
- Water-based clay may purchased from the instructor.
Sculpture tools (email instructor for more info debraannbalchen@gmail.com)
Debra Balchen
debraannbalchen@gmail.com
312-810-1111
https://www.debrabalchen.art/
Debra Balchen is a Chicago-area artist specializing in drawing, painting, sculpture, and art glass. Raised in Chicago, she has also lived in New York, Italy, South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt. She studied art at the Art Students League of New York, the Kitengela Glass Studio in Kenya, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She recently traveled to Italy to study sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art.
Debra has taught numerous special drawing classes for the American Glass Guild conferences and for ROMOMA Modern Art Museum in Kenya. Today, she teaches at the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, where she can be found in her private studio in the Sculpture Coach House.