# TEST Ceramics Program course list Test page [### Experimental Photography on Clay - Online Course ](/experimental-photography-clay-online-course)Level: Beginning – Intermediate **Meets via Zoom on Wednesdays, 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM, June 3 – August 5 (10 classes)** **Instructor: Anne Eder** *Note: this is an online-only course and does not include access to the Ceramics Program facility.* Are you someone who... ![albumen print on clay of lace and light through glass](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/CORINNE_PLANCHE.jpg?itok=TT70vi9U) [### 3D Printing Mural ](/3d-printing-mural)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Mondays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 1 - July 27, 2026** **Instructor: Marek Jacisin** Students will design and produce 10" x 10" ceramic tiles using clay 3D printing. Each tile features a vessel form printed directly onto a clay slab... ![3D Printing tile](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/tile-3Dprint-01.JPG?h=f3bdd9db&itok=yjFnnlv3) [### Basics and Challenges on Mondays ](/basics-and-challenges-mondays-0)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Mondays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 8 - August 3, 2026** **Instructor: Katie Fee** Through demonstrations, individual critiques, and extensive hands-on practice, students will learn the fundamentals of wheel throwing, hand building, and... ![two pairs of hands at a potter's wheel - teacher and student](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Basics_Crop_SU25.jpg?itok=rMEAc0UM) [### Basics and Challenges on Tuesdays ](/basics-and-challenges-tuesdays-0)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Tuesdays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 9 - August 4, 2026** **Instructor: Kyle Johns** Through demonstrations, individual critiques, and extensive hands-on practice, students will learn the fundamentals of wheel throwing, hand building, and... ![two pairs of hands at a potter's wheel - teacher and student](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Basics_Crop_SU25.jpg?itok=rMEAc0UM) [### Basics and Challenges on Thursdays ](/basics-and-challenges-thursdays-0)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Thursdays , 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 11 - August 6, 2026** **Instructor: Kyle Johns** Through demonstrations, individual critiques, and extensive hands-on practice, students will learn the fundamentals of wheel throwing, hand building, and... ![two pairs of hands at a potter's wheel - teacher and student](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-03/Basics_Crop_SU25.jpg?itok=rMEAc0UM) [### Choices and Challenges – What if? Why not? ](/choices-and-challenges-what-if-why-not)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Wednesdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 3 - July 29, 2026** **Instructor: Tom Hubbard** Spend the summer exploring new directions in your studio practice. In this class, students respond to weekly prompts, selecting a making method—wheel... ![ceramic bottles on a sketchbook](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Choices%20%26%20Challenges.jpeg?itok=pEaXxHeo) [### Combined Methods ](/combined-methods-2)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Wednesdays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 3 - July 29, 2026** **Instructor: Ashton Keen** Join Ashton Keen, our 2024-26 Artist in Residence, for this course designed for Intermediate-Advanced students. This course encourages students to... ![ceramic bowl by Ashton Keen featuring soft orange/pink/tan drips of flashing slip with darker areas of clay showing through, with single black dandelion motif](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Ashton_Keen_9_A_Keen.jpg?h=b932b900&itok=3FuGyprb) [### Explore Mid-Range Soda ](/explore-mid-range-soda)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Thursdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 11 - August 6, 2026** **Instructor: Katie Fee** This class introduces a range of vessel-making techniques with a focused exploration of the relationship between surface and form. Through a combination... ![stack of plates with rim with four lobes](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Explore%20Midrange%20Soda.jpg?itok=hv1ToABh) [### General Store – Hand-built functional ware, sundries, and other oddities ](/general-store-hand-built-functional-ware-sundries-and-other-oddities-0)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Thursdays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 4 - July 30, 2026** **Instructor: Tom Hubbard** Inspired by the historic general store—a hub for all things useful and essential—this class will explore a range of hand-built ceramic forms such as bottles... ![three long-necked pouring vessels by Tom Hubbard](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/General%20Store%2026.jpeg?itok=eOZeiZx3) [### Introduction to Wheel Throwing ](/introduction-wheel-throwing-2)Beginner - Intermediate **Meets Saturdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 13 - August 8, 2026** **Instructor: Adriana Sousa Estrella** This course uses the potter’s wheel as a tool for making functional pottery, as well as introducing ways the wheel can be used to create... ![two mugs on a white backdrop](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Sousa_soda-fired-fluted.png?h=6f1e44a3&itok=Hx0ZOog8) [### Life with Flowers ](/life-flowers)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Wednesdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 3 - July 29, 2026** **Instructor: Diane Lulek** Explore the intersection of ceramics and the natural world through flower-inspired forms. In this class, students will learn to create slab-built objects... ![three vases with colorful flowers](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Lulek_Flowers.jpg?h=349a0399&itok=sYNgTrlO) [### Looking at Animals ](/looking-animals-1)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Wednesdays , 6:30pm - 9:30pm, June 3 - July 29, 2026** **Instructor: Mary Kenny** 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... ![ceramic sculpture of a seal balancing on a rock](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Sculpting%20Animals.jpg?h=146c8137&itok=dvqZt0_M) [### Majolica: From Surface and Story ](/majolica-surface-and-story)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Fridays, 10:00am - 3:00pm, June 5 - July 10, 2026** **Instructor: Denny McLaughlin and Natalie Royston** This five-week intensive explores tin-glazed earthenware — the historic technique behind Italian majolica, French faience, and... ![White platter with red fish decoration](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/MajolicaIntensive.jpg?itok=llNPndY4) [### Metamorphic Clay: From Contained to Emergence ](/metamorphic-clay-contained-emergence-1)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Thursdays, 1:00pm - 4:00pm, June 4 - July 30, 2026** **Instructor: Chenlu Hou** In this course, we’ll use the vessel as a starting point and push it beyond containment, toward growth, transformation, and sculptural emergence. Drawing... ![ceramic sculpture of a person diving into the water, in soft tones of lavender, yellow, and teal](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/3.jpg?h=436c1f0b&itok=kgb1gsyc) [### Slab Lab ](/slab-lab)Beginner - Intermediate **Meets Tuesdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 2 - July 28, 2026** **Instructor: Joanna Mark** Whether you are new to clay or already on your journey, in this class, you’ll explore the fusion of slab construction, surface design, and form... ![three cylindrical vessels made from slabs](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/SlabLab_Mark2.jpg?itok=Ar_tlxYl) [### Teapot and Pouring Vessel Intensive ](/teapot-and-pouring-vessel-intensive)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Fridays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, July 17 - August 7, 2026** **Instructor: Ashton Keen** This intensive offers students the opportunity to create a range of pouring vessels on the wheel. Each week focuses on different techniques to develop... ![teapot by Ashton Keen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Unknown-6.jpeg?itok=4MskKRPx) [### Trompe L'Oeil Sculpture ](/trompe-loeil-sculpture)Beginner - Advanced **Meets Mondays, 1:00pm - 4:00pm, June 1 - July 27, 2026** **Instructor: Mary Kenny** The term trompe l’œil—French for “to deceive the eye”—refers to an art tradition in which the artist skillfully fools the viewer into believing painted or... ![hot dog and crinkle-cut french fries made out of ceramic](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Kenny_Mary_2.jpg?itok=Tu_pm3DW) [### Utilitarian Pottery ](/utilitarian-pottery-1)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Tuesdays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 2 - July 28, 2026** **Instructor: Ashton Keen** In the realm of pottery, discerning the success of one’s work or that of peers is essential for growth and development. This class, dedicated to wheel... ![pouring pot by Ashton Keen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Utilitarian_Keen.jpeg?h=a7d7f118&itok=Yga-fiVy) [### Wheel Intensive ](/wheel-intensive-0)Intermediate - Advanced **Meets Mondays, 10:00am - 1:00pm, June 1 - July 27, 2026** **Instructor: Steve Murphy** Focusing on the wheel, this class for Intermediate to Advanced potters will explore size, form, refinement, trimming for perfect feet, and surface... ![tea bowl by Steve Murphy](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/SteveTeabowl.jpg?itok=Ec_SG0xx)