In this 3-hour live online demonstration workshop, Paul Briggs will focus on his basic technique for pinch-forming ceramic pinch pots as much more than an introductory hand building process. Today, increasing numbers of ceramists are pinch-forming vessels and have found the method to be far more than an introduction to clay, but a technique for creative expression in ceramics on par with all others. Pinch forming isn't a fast process and one must be mindful in ways that are quite different than working with slabs or throwing on the potter's wheel. To pinch well, one must slow down, focus, and feel the clay during every pinch. In these times, given that our way of being is yet fast paced and we are constantly plugged into technology and social media, once students settle themselves down into the process, they may find pinching to be a meditative, quieting process during which they can turn off the brain chatter.Tuesday, October 5, 6-9pm ESTMore about Paul Briggs:I was born in Beacon, NY and grew up in the Hudson Valley region of upstate New York. Slab-building is my "primary" method of expression. Pinch-forming is what I do to meditate, slab building is what I do to think through ideas, to philosophize concretely. I have studied educational theory and policy, art education, theology, sculpture and ceramics. After a circuitous and fortuitous journey, I am an artist-teacher at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. My partner and I share the evenings musing about sewing and quilting, ceramics and sculpture, art, life, and how far away our three children live.