Formal Classes
These classes run for 8 consecutive weeks, once per week. You will have your hands in clay every single class.
Wheel Throwing
$280/ 8 week class
Learn to throw or improve your skills on the pottery wheel. Beginners can clearn to center, open, and pull cylinders. From there create bowls, cups, and plates. Learn trimming techniques that take your pottery to the next level. For intermediate throwers, learn to collar for bottles, create galleries and lids, spouts, handles, and more. For more advanced thowers, learn to throw more identical pieces for production, center 10 lbs of clay, build larger pieces in sections, or discuss how to improve details. For expert throwers, you can come teach me! I run a small studio of only 3-4 people on wheels.
Includes one (1) 25lb bag of clay. Additional clay availabe for purchase. No outside clay in the studio.
*Bisque firing of in-class work is included, additional costs for glaze firing .05 per square inch. Kilns are fired when there is enough work to moderately fill, which can be as often as every week, as little as once a month.
Handbuilding
$280/ 8 week class
Join a long history of making beautiful things with just your hands and the clay. From dishware to sculptures, there are no limits to what you can make in this class. We will start with traditional pinch pots, followed by coil, slab, and extruded clay. Put all the techniques together and the possibilities are only limited by your imagination. This is a small studio of only 3-4 students at a time.
Includes one (1) 25lb bag of clay. Additional clay availabe for purchase. No outside clay in the studio.
*Bisque firing of in-class work is included, additional costs for glaze firing .05 per square inch. Kilns are fired when there is enough work to moderately fill, which can be as often as every week, as little as once a month.
Everything Glaze
$280 / 8 weeks
This class has everything but the chemistry, though we will touch on that, too. Learn to layer, peacock style, cuerda seca, underglazes, transfers, screen printing, oxides and washes, scraffito, dipping, brushing, layering, precision lines, flooding, and more. As a ^6 studio, I don’t have many dipping glazes, but most home potters won’t either. I’ll cover it so you are comfortable in a community studio, but most of what we do hand applied. There is no making of clay pieces in this class, so make sure you are experienced and can bring pieces that are at different stages such as leather hard or bisque. We can arrange to bisque fire your work ahead of time if needed. I will also have 6” x 6” tile available for a nominal fee. I run a very small studio, so only about 3 - 4 students at a time.
. *Bisque firing of in-class work is included, additional costs for glaze firing $ .05 per square inch. Kilns are fired when there is enough work to moderately fill, which can be as often as every week, as little as once a month.
**in class glaze supplies are provided up to a 6x6x6 piece per project, larger projects may have increased charges to cover material costs, please discuss. (Commercial glazes run about $20 per pint and that adds up quickly.)