Palmetto Woodturners is excited to present our very own Bob Lyons!
Robert Lyon is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of South Carolina. For 38 years he taught ceramics, glassblowing, and sculpture at LSU and USC. Since his retirement in 2015, he has been a full-time studio artist.
He has been the recipient of many awards and grants, which include a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship in sculpture, and a Southeastern Artists Fellowship from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Lyon has been an artist-in-residence at Artpark, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Arts/Industry Residency Program - John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and was a resident fellow with the 2009 Windgate International Turning Exchange (ITE). He has been an invited participant at the Emma International Collaboration in Saskatoon, Canada, and the Echo Lake Collaboration, Newtown, Pennsylvania. In 2014 Robert was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft from the South Carolina Arts Commission. He has taught woodturing at various schools including the Marc Adams School of Woodworking, John C. Campbell Folk School, Peters Valley School of Craft and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Additionally, he has demonstrated woodturning at many venues including the AAW National Symposium, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Swiss Association of Woodturning, Geneva, Switzerland, Yeoju (YIT) Institute of Technology, South Korea, and many AAW clubs in the USA.
Hands-on Class
October 11, 2024, from 8:00am to 5:00pm.
Mann Tool & Supply, 802 Chris Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169
What: Bronze bowl or platter
Cost: $85
Class Description – (10 students max)
Understanding Form: The Bowl
The bowl is open and wide-mouthed compared to jars and cylindrical forms. It holds its space lightly, because its interior is really part of the surrounding space that is connected and flows into it. According to Greek myth, the first bowl was shaped over the breast of Aphrodite. The bowl form is a simple shape, basically a hollow hemisphere or variations of such, and can be expressed with many subtle variations and nuances. Turning a bowl may seem easy compared to many other forms, but bringing together the lip, the profile, the interior volume, and the foot, will be very elusive, a challenging problem, whose answers may take a lifetime of turning. But here lies the challenge, one that is loaded with possibilities and opportunity for creative exploration.
This class will focus on several different bowl forms. The S-curve, the Modified S, The Straight and Curved, the Parabola and bowl forms influenced by the catenary arch. There will be at least one PowerPoint presentation illustrating these various forms and other interesting aspects of our craft, and each participant will receive a PDF that discusses bowls and other important turning information. Each person will spend the class experimenting at the lathe on each suggested form, or a personal selection of forms. The class will conclude with a discussion of successes and flops and how we might improve our next attempts. Final sanding and finishing will take place back in your shops. The emphasis will be on understanding the form you’re trying to make, and practicing the techniques necessary to bring together the various parts of the bowl.
Key Points
*Lathe Safety
*Using the side ground bowl gouge along with other edge tools
*Shape Terminology
*Learn to think creatively
*Learn in a stress-free environment
Some wood will be provided, but each person is strongly encouraged to bring several blanks either wet or dry, you just don’t want to run out of material during the class.
Demonstration
October 12, 2024 (8:30am to 1:00pm - demonstration starts at 9:00am)
Mann Tool & Supply, 802 Chris Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169
Cost: $10 (You must have paid your yearly dues)