Silicone Moldmaking

In this one-day hands-on workshop students will learn how to create a silicone mold of an object of their choosing**. You will leave this workshop with a flexible, strong and durable mold that can be used to recreate your original object for years to come. Corran will demonstrate how to use a slab-pressing method with your new mold to create copies in clay.

** The object students should bring should be a NON-porous object to make a mold of. This could be an object you sculpted, but no bisqueware. Leather hard or vitrified clay is okay. This could be a found object- but no fabric or absorbent material. In both cases, the object shouldn’t have long/thin parts (for example, a strawberry works, but the leaves would not be successful). Students are encouraged to bring an object with some complexity- the benefit of doing a silicone mold is that undercuts are…