Course Description: Step right up, spin the wheel, and let the chance elements of The Randomizer influence your work. In addition to pursuing independent projects with dual instructor input, students can take a spin of “The Randomizer,” which will determine what you make and the clay, tools, and techniques used to make your work that day. Try a new clay body, stretch those unused throwing muscles, improve your hand-building skills, or pick up a new surface technique. This class encourages play and gets you out of your comfort zone. Additional randomizers may be used to determine glazing and firing methods. *No class on July 4th, 2024, due to Independence Day... Read more about The Randomizer
Course Description: Clay’s responsiveness to touch makes it the ideal medium to sculpt what we can see with our eyes and new forms that reveal what we cannot. Through lectures and demonstrations, we will discuss various techniques for developing individual creative approaches that students will then use to make a small body of work.The instructor has experience teaching representational and abstraction techniques and can adapt styles to meet the needs of the students. When relevant, we will explore non-ceramic sculpture methods to adda finishing touch to our work.
Dates: May 29 - July 31 (10 classes | 11 weeks) - WAITLISTED Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Level: Advanced Instructor: Audrey An
Course Description: Join 2022-24 Artist-in-Residence Audrey An in exploring computer-aided modes of clay working. Students must have prior mold experience to take this class. Thinking about hand-machine collaboration, the class will introduce various methods to design tools to aid your studio practice or generate digital models that will ultimately become ceramic objects. Throughout the course, students will gain basic proficiency in CAD (computer-aided design) software, Rhinoceros 3D, to create forms that can be folded in paper, 3D printed in plastic to make a plaster
Course Description: In this class, you will learn various ways to capture the likeness of the human figure, working from photographs and life. You will use slabs and clothing patterns, coils, pinch-pots, and templates, emphasizing hands, feet, and facial features.
Dates: May 28 - August 6 (10 classes | 11 weeks)* Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 - 9:30 pm Level: Intermediate - Advanced Instructor: Tom Hubbard
Course Description: Long ago, the local general store stocked many products and was the only place in town for manufactured articles and other necessities. This class will use the General Store's inventory as inspiration for hand-built ceramic work, from bottles, flasks, enamelware, and watering cans to tools and other items. Soft slab construction techniques and simple molds will explore these familiar forms. Texture and other surface treatments will also be covered, including stamping, stencils, and underglaze transfers. Classes will consist of short slide lectures, work sessions, demonstrations, and discussions of design/construction strategies and glazing considerations. Please bring a sketchbook or reference materials for projects.
Course Description: Get ready for a deep dive into surface exploration. Discover new ways to liven up your hand-built or thrown ceramic vessels and consider design elements as you decorate a wide range of functional objects. Expand your technical skillset as you learn to apply slip in new ways, experiment with resist methods, and carve and pierce clay. * There will be no class on July 2nd due to instructor travel.
Course Description: Explore the musical possibilities of clay! Students will learn to make tuned, playable ocarinas (closed-vessel ceramic flutes), including multiple-chambered ocarinas. We will also play with other 'musical clay' objects, such as ceramic flutes,percussion instruments,rattles, etc. Work will be fired in Raku and Saggar.*No class on July 4th.
Course Description: Join 2023-24 Artist-in-Residence Forrest SincoffGard in developing your hand-building skills and confidence in clay. The class will explore the fluidity and tactility of hand-building through techniques such as pinching, coiling, and slab-building and an introduction to mold-making. Projects will explore ceramic sculpture, utilitarian forms, games, clay as play, and pieces with movement. In-class demonstrations will address construction issues and functions and cover various surface decoration techniques.Note - Yes, those waffles ARE made out of clay!
Dates: May 31 - August 9 (10 classes | 11 weeks) Day/Time: Fridays, 10:00am - 1:00pm Level:Beginner - Advanced Instructor: Jennifer Peace
Course Description: From tiny pinch pots to larger sculptural vessels, this class will focus on developing hand building skills. We will consider both practical and expressive intentions behind the work people do. Participants will be encouraged to notice the ways they handle and respond to clay and how this awareness can lead to creating work that is uniquely their own. Due to instructor travel, this class will feature guest instructors - Mary Kenny and Diane Lulek. July 26th will be a work-day with a make-up class on August 9th.
Course Description: This course, designed for Intermediate – Advanced students, encourages students to challenge their interest of the ceramic medium, combining wheel thrown and altered forms, with a focus on integrating new surface techniques with slips and glaze. This course is primarily a studio class structured around student proposals for a current body of work in combination with thematic assignments.
Dates: May 30 - August 8 (10 classes | 11 weeks)* Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Level: Intermediate - Advanced Instructor: Mary Kenny
Course Description: Whether you want to make a sculpture of an animal, add animal features on a thrown pot, or draw, paint, or carve the image of an animal, this class is for you. The instructor will teach you how to look at animals and understand how to replicate either a realistic or stylized version. Lessons will include information on anatomy, proportion, and what features to focus on to capture the essence of the animal. Hand builders and wheel-throwers are welcome though students are encouraged to throw outside of class to ensure enough time for in-class instruction and activity. *Note: No class on Thursday, July 4th for Independence Day
Course Description: Students will look to the garden for inspiration, elevating the experience in their garden setting by creating unique forms and vessels. They will choose a project or projects that may include unique serving vessels, lanterns, planters, or decorative forms that enhance the garden space. Students will use both hand-building and throwing techniques in the creating process. Students need previous
Description:This course uses the potter’s wheel to make functional pottery and introduces ways the wheel can be used to create closed forms and parts to connect. Through demonstrations and hands-on learning each class will build off each other to gain skills and confidence in clay.
Dates: May 28 - July 30 (10 classes | 11 weeks) - WAITLISTED Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 9:30pm Level: Beginning - Intermediate Instructor: Audrey An
Course Description: Join 2022-24 Artist-in-Residence, Audrey An, in expanding your knowledge in basic plaster mold-making for press-molding and slip-casting. Mold-making is an efficient method to quickly replicate forms with exactitude, whether it be a set of mugs or an object that comes together to form a compelling sculpture or installation. Throughout the course, students will learn how to make 1, 2, multi-part
Course Description: Find your creative voice with slab building. This class will demonstrate a combination of slab construction, surface decoration, and an exploration of form. Techniques will focus on both hard and soft slab construction to create mugs, planters, plates and trays, boxes, and anything your heart desires. Surface techniques will include the use of slips, carving, sgraffito, inlay, handmade stamps, and found
