Wheel Throwing

Mondays, 6pm - 9

Oct. 26 - Nov. 14th

Eight week class | $375

Hand Building

Tuesdays, 6pm - 9

Oct. 27 - Nov. 15th

Eight week class | $375

In Wheel Throwing we will learn or keep learning how to throw on the wheel! We will start from square one, but this class can be catered to any experience level. Wheel throwing can be a challenge at first, but we promise you will get better with practice! We will make cups, bowls, sculptures, anything round, or once round. What you want to make in this class, and all of our classes, is entirely up to you. In each class we will demonstrate wheel throwing techniques, work with students one on one and just hang out and throw! All skill levels welcome!

Teacher | Virginia Torrence

In this 8 week Handbuilding course we’ll pinch, coil and slab our way toward whatever we can imagine. Handbuilding has come to mean any kind of clay forming that doesn't involve the potter's wheel, and so together we’ll learn how to slip, score, smush and push our forms and surfaces until they’re just so, round or not, functional or not, smooth or not, small or not- Handbuilding is for everything and everyone, or not! Well look at historical works, pick apart examples of hand built pottery and sculptures, and uncover what they can teach us, what permissions, questions and challenges they pose - unpacking surfaces and forms and the opportunities afforded by different clay bodies, and cover some approaches to mixing and augmenting them. We’ll explore a range of techniques for composing clay forms and surfaces, learn strategies for several different making approaches, and put them to use toward our projects as we see fit. We’ll touch on bisque molds, slip transfers, terra-sigilatta, and more, but mostly we’ll touch clay. All skill levels are welcome, no experience necessary.

Teacher | Henry Crissman