Workshop Leader
Randy is an experienced teaching artist and workshop leader conducting programs for school-age children to senior adults. Her workshops focus on inspiring others to discover their passion for creativity. Classes are geared for all skill levels with instruction in clay and mixed media.
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Upcoming Clay Workshops
Clay Relief Sculpture 101 with Randy Fein
October 1, 2022
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Farnsworth Art Museum
Gamble Education Center, Rockland Maine
This one-day workshop will give you the tools to sculpt a bas-relief sculpture in clay. A bas-relief sculpture features subjects protruding slightly from the background, placing an emphasis on texture, light, shadow, and perspective.
Your relief sculpture will be inspired by your personal choice of subject. Randy Fein will share her expertise in how to translate architecture, seascapes, landscapes, and abstract compositions into a relief sculpture.
Finding Your Way With Clay
Start Date: November 15, 2022
Five Tuesday Meetings
Adult and Community Education at Five Town CSD
Rockport, Maine
Finding Your Way With Clay is a crash course in trying your hand at creating clay objects. No experience necessary, just the interest to take risks during your creative journey. Instruction in hand building, wheel thrown pottery and low fire glaze techniques will be discovered.
Collaborative Art Installation Workshops
I have conducted more than two hundred K-12 mural building workshops throughout New England, mentoring thousands of students during my thirty plus years of leading art workshops.
My collaborative programs focus on creating large permanent art installations in clay and mixed media. These creative workshops inspire students to explore curriculum related topics in a variety of hands on mediums.
Our Town Union
Union Elementary School, Union, Maine
“Randy inspired our 125 pre-K to 6th grade students at Union Elementary to create a large, eight-part clay relief mural titled “Our Town Union." The student-made installation will live on in the school, long after those who created it are grown. I was impressed by Randy’s strong work, planning, envisioning the finished pieces, and keeping the project on time and within budget. This resulted in well thought out and excellent finished artwork that is now a long-term part of the school in a hall where kids walk by, touch it, and reflect on Union’s birds, fish, trees, plants, and human history. It sparks conversations, learning and pride.”
-Anthony Lufkin, art teacher for six mid-coast elementary schools, Knox County teacher of the year in 2018.
Out of This World
HBS Elementary School, Brunswick, Maine
This program focused on astronomy, where students created imaginative paintings of our solar system and celestial objects. The workshop involved 125 fifth-grade students who each created an individual painting on wood panel. These unique student views of our universe were assembled into a colorful 4 foot x 24 foot permanent mural, appropriately titled, Out Of This World.
Home By The Sea
St. George School, St. George, Maine
This outdoor clay relief Installation is the result of a workshop with twenty-five, 8th grade students at the St. George School in St. George, Maine.
Protect Our Watershed
Lincolnville Central School, Lincolnville, Maine
This workshop involved one hundred and twenty five, fourth through seventh grade students who all collaborated on the creation of a permanent clay relief mural. Our curriculum focused on the flora and fauna found in the local watershed adjacent to the school grounds.
