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Family Studio: Clay Animals: Lions + Tigers + Bears, oh my!

July 09, 2024

Make art side by side as a family. exploring a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Get messy with us and spend your morning creating little critters out of air dry clay. Form a mound of clay to look like a real life animal or a creature born of your imagination! […]

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Handbuilding with Clay (Ages 15-18)

July 09, 2024

Get your hands dirty and learn how to make pottery! Make artwork that you can eat out of and admire. Learn tons of different techniques like pinch pots, and coil building, using molds and operating the extruder.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (B)

July 09, 2024

Expand your skills by learning additional throwing techniques and working on complex projects. We'll explore larger-scale pieces, throw platters, make sets, and add hand-built elements to our pieces. This class caters to individual interests, so we'll address specific techniques for your projects. Discussion on reduction firing in the gas kiln and glaze firing to cone […]

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Family Studio: Air-Dry Clay Magnets for Your Fridge Art

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Clear the fridge and get the art out! Come to the clay studio and make and decorate tiles of clay shaped like animals, galaxies and other fun shapes. Decorate them and glue a magnet on […]

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (A)

July 09, 2024

Expand your skills by learning additional throwing techniques and working on complex projects. We'll explore larger-scale pieces, throw platters, make sets, and add hand-built elements to our pieces. This class caters to individual interests, so we'll address specific techniques for your projects. Discussion on reduction firing in the gas kiln and glaze firing to cone […]

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Guided Studio: Alternative Firings + Surface Design

July 09, 2024

Learn new techniques to improve your functional and non-functional ceramic forms. Try cone 10 reduction glazes and soda firing. Learn new surface design processes using slips, underglazes, terra sigillata and the spray booth application of both underglazes and overglazes. This class is best for intermediate and advanced students with a solid foundation of the basics […]

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Lids, Lids + More Lids!

July 09, 2024

Explore various types of wheel-thrown lids and the benefits of each in relation to its pot’s form and function, from closed-form lidded pieces and sets countertop cannisters to casserole dishes and honey pots. Discuss topics will be various surface decoration and glazing techniques, including a raku fire at the end of the session. Must have […]

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Introduction to Clay (A)

July 09, 2024

Explore the basics of clay. We’ll cover the proper use of studio tools, equipment and materials. You’ll learn about slab construction, coil building and combined techniques. We’ll also demonstrate wheel throwing and discuss how various clays and glazes respond to each other.

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Introduction to the Wheel (F)

July 09, 2024

Learn to throw clay on a potter’s wheel. We’ll cover the foundations of wheel work, including wedging and centering clay and forming cylinders, cups and bowls. Basic glazing information will help you finish your final forms.

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Introduction to the Wheel (E)

July 09, 2024

Learn to throw clay on a potter’s wheel. We’ll cover the foundations of wheel work, including wedging and centering clay and forming cylinders, cups and bowls. Basic glazing information will help you finish your final forms.

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Set the Table: Hand-Built Tablescapes

July 09, 2024

Students will explore forms based on utility, covering the most essential pieces of the dinnerware set: cups, bowls, plates. In addition we will explore larger centerpiece forms as well. Techniques covered will be pinching, coil building, slab building.

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Wheel Throwing for Everyone (C)

July 09, 2024

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing? Come throw a pot using white stoneware, then fire and finish your pieces using food-safe glazes.

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Surface Design with Slip for Wheel Throwers

July 09, 2024

Learn how to create your own mason stain slips and successfully apply to thrown pieces: brushing, slip trailing, mocha ware techniques, sgraffito, stamps and more. We will have time to throw during class, but demos will focus on surface treatment. Intermediate to advanced throwers, please see supply list.

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Wheel Throwing for Everyone (E)

July 09, 2024

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing? Come throw a pot using white stoneware, then fire and finish your pieces using food-safe glazes.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing + Hand Building

July 09, 2024

This class is designed for those interested in expanding their skills, techniques, and concepts in clay. Weekly demonstrations will be individualized to cater to each student's skill level and interest.

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Wheel Throwing Refresher (B)

July 09, 2024

Brush up on the basics! We'll review wheel throwing techniques and skills. Create and complete work during class, with enough time to fire and glaze. This class is open to students who have previously taken wheel throwing classes. We will review and refresh our knowledge of wedging, centering, throwing, trimming and glazing. We will take […]

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (C)

July 09, 2024

Expand your skills by learning additional throwing techniques and working on complex projects. We'll explore larger-scale pieces, throw platters, make sets, and add hand-built elements to our pieces. This class caters to individual interests, so we'll address specific techniques for your projects. Discussion on reduction firing in the gas kiln and glaze firing to cone […]

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Wheel Throwing for Everyone (F)

July 09, 2024

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing? Come throw a pot using white stoneware, then fire and finish your pieces using food-safe glazes.

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Introduction to Clay (B)

July 09, 2024

Explore the basics of clay. We’ll cover the proper use of studio tools, equipment and materials. You’ll learn about slab construction, coil building and combined techniques. We’ll also demonstrate wheel throwing and discuss how various clays and glazes respond to each other.

read more

Introduction to the Wheel (C)

July 09, 2024

Learn to throw clay on a potter’s wheel. We’ll cover the foundations of wheel work, including wedging and centering clay and forming cylinders, cups and bowls. Basic glazing information will help you finish your final forms.

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Small Figurative Hand Building in Clay

July 09, 2024

Using hand-building techniques (coil, pinch, and slab) students will create small figurative pieces in clay, exploring contemporary artists. Students will use glazing and surface design techniques.

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Hand Building: Make a Serving Tray or Bowl

July 09, 2024

Make the perfect centerpiece to display a delicious dinner! Or a bowl to hold all your countertop fruits Join me in this class where we will utilize several clay building techniques to make a piece of serving ware that cateres to your specific preferences!

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Raku Firing Workshop (A)

July 09, 2024

Head over to VisArts' courtyard and join us for some raku pottery firing—an exciting approach to pottery surface design! Participants will glaze their pieces, help load them into the kiln, grab a beer or snack across the street at Goatocado, then return to enjoy the campfire-like atmosphere with friends on our back patio.

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Raku Firing Workshop (C)

July 09, 2024

Head over to VisArts' courtyard and join us for some raku pottery firing—an exciting approach to pottery surface design! Participants will glaze their pieces, help load them into the kiln, grab a beer or snack across the street at Goatocado, then return to enjoy the campfire-like atmosphere with friends on our back patio.

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