CERAMICS
In ceramic classes, youth and adult students learn to work with their hands and express their creativity and imagination through molding and manipulating clay. Youth and adult weekend workshops explore hand-building techniques, while adult weekday classes and weekend open studios delve further into wheel-throwing, pinch pot and coils techniques, simple ceramic vocabulary, and an understanding of firing techniques.
Ceramics Open Studio
Open Studios meet the 3rd OR 4th Saturday of each month | Noon-3PM OR 4-7PM
For more independent Weekday Pottery students, open studios allow more time to work in the studio outside of class hours. Having learned studio practices, equipment, and materials in Weekday Pottery Classes, students have the option to concentrate on larger projects and to practice more frequently in the studio. With an experienced instructor present, answers or advice are readily available!
Prerequisite: You must be a Weekday Pottery student who has taken at least 4 classes (1 month) of Weekday Pottery Classes within the last 12 months to date.
Kids Pottery Workshop
Workshop meets 1st Saturday of each month | 10am – Noon OR 2-4pm
Students learn about and explore clay through hand-building to make a functional or decorative ceramic piece. Each class focuses on a themed project designed to foster creativity and imagination! In December, each student will create a mini gingerbread house.
Adult Pottery Workshop
Workshop meets 2nd Saturday of each month | 10am – 1pm
Students learn about and explore clay through hand-building to create a functional or decorative ceramic piece. Instructors workshop and problem solve to help bring each student's creative idea to the surface!
Weekday Pottery Class
Mondays 10am-Noon OR 6-8pm | Tuesdays 6-8 pm | Wednesdays 10am-Noon OR 6-8pm
Pottery class instruction includes various methods such as hand-building, wheel-throwing, and pinch pot and coils techniques using slabs of clay. Students learn how to mold and manipulate the clay and apply glazes, in addition to simple ceramic vocabulary and an understanding of firing techniques.
Raku Firing Sessions
Sessions meet the 4th Sunday of each month | 9:45am-3:45pm, hour-and-a-half increments
For students interested in a reduction firing technique, Raku Firing Sessions allow first hand experience in loading raku kilns, controlling atmosphere and transporting pieces to a reduction chamber! Students will be briefed with a small lecture on the history of raku and its westernization, then guided throughout each part of the process leading to post-reduction. Join us and watch your work transform into a beautiful multi-colored finished piece right in front of you!
Prerequisite: You must be a Weekday Pottery student who has taken at least 4 classes (1 month) of Weekday Pottery Classes within the last 12 months to date.
Attire: For student safety, the attire policy for these sessions is as follows: closed-toe shoes, long-sleeve cotton shirt, jeans, long hair tied up, a bandana or respirator, and no jewelry. Students will also be required to wear heat-resistant gloves, which will be provided by the instructor at the session.