Tar Paper
Templates
with Nicholas Danielson
Tar Paper Templates: cups
Learn how to use templates made from tar paper to make simple forms beginning with a cup.
Tar Paper Templates: bowl
Continue to practice techniques while making a bowl.
Tar Paper Templates: oval dish
Watch how Danielson applies techniques learned from previous videos to more complex forms.
Tar Paper Templates: vase
Having mastered techniques of using single templates, learn how to use multiple templates to make advanced forms.
Course Description
Learn from Nicholas Danielson how to create multiples of a form with pre-cut tar paper templates. Using the same templates that students can purchase from the Archie Bray Clay Business, Danielson will demonstrate how to build a cup, bowl, oval dish and vase. Content includes four demonstration videos, a tool list, project worksheet and suggestions for further application.
Nicholas Danielson creates objects to present food, offer conversations, invite touch and enrich space. The work grows from a deep love for historical communal wares; he is inspired by their humility and unapologetic functionality. But with inspiration, comes adaptation. He touches clay with sensitivity and momentum in order to imagine and design pieces that integrate strength and softness. His work explores the boundaries of function and the relationship between object and viewer—finding balance between utility and visual intrigue.
Danielson was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. After 20 years, he moved west to Montana. There he completed his BFA in ceramics at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, in 2012. Following his graduation, he held a short term residency at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. He went on to earn his MFA from Utah State University in Logan, Utah, in 2016. While a graduate student he completed a study abroad program at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. In 2016, he was selected as a Long Term Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Following his residency, he stayed on at the Archie Bray Foundation as the Education Studio Coordinator and continues working in his own studio in Helena, MT.
