Multi-Week Classes
Our classes meet once a week for 2.5 hours each week. Jan/Feb classes will be posted for signups on Monday, Nov 25th at noon
What Makes Us Different?
We provide 25 pounds of clay for students. Students may use any of 5 clay types. Instructors will also make recommendations based on skill set. Classes include clay and use of tools and aprons.
We offer open studio hours to encourage students to practice and excel. Students may come in to practice 6 days per week (different days depending on your class day.)
Most classes run 8 weeks long instead of the standard 6 weeks. We want students to have the opportunity to have their pieces fired multiple times, to encourage learning, experimenting, and technique improvement.
Learn about our instructors here.
Intro to Throwing and Glazing
Wheel throwing classes teach the basics of making pieces on the potter’s wheel. Beginning students learn to prepare the clay, center, throw, and trim. After the pieces are fired, all students are taught how to glaze their pieces. Classes are capped at 11 students for high student/teacher interaction.
Mondays 6:30pm for 8 weeks for $425 taught by Jerry: Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, & 24
Tuesdays at 6:30pm for 8 weeks for $425. Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, Feb 4, 11, 18, 25
Next Step Wheel:
Designing Plates, Blates & Bowls
Thoughtfully designed hand-made tableware can elevate any dish. Bring a personalized touch to your dinner table by learning how to design and wheel-throw plates, bowls, and blates (pasta bowls, low bowls, high-sided plates, and other hybrid dishes) that speak to your personal style.
In this class, you’ll learn three tried and true techniques for creating beautiful wheel-thrown plates, and you’ll be delightfully surprised at how easy it is with the right tools and process. Then we’ll play around with the design of the rim and foot styles, lifting the clay into bowl-plate hybrids (lovingly known as “blates”) with an eye to functionality and composition. We’ll then cover bowl design, exploring curves, angles, and use-cases, learnings to throw with more clay and a consistent wall-thickness. And of course, you’ll learn techniques for a consistent glaze application on these pieces that tend to prove trickier to glaze. Additionally you’ll learn to throw and create shapes using ribs.
Students should have completed a wheel throwing beginner class and be able to throw a cylinder. This builds off of beginner centering skills and will help you advance your skills.
Join us Wednesday evenings from 6:30-9 on Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb 5, 12, and 19th for $400 with Keisha.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing:
Jars, Bottles & Vases
An intermediate class where students will learn to advance their techniques through two main projects: jars and vases. With jars we’ll begin with tips and tricks to improve your cylinders and thin up walls. Then we’ll move onto galleries and throwing matching lids. We’ll discuss style, design, and sizing. The vase portion will build upon our basic cylinders and you’ll learn to collar, create smooth or sharp shoulders, and wide or narrow necks. We’ll look at example vases and discuss the sequence of throwing for each one. This class builds sequentially through these two main topics. The instructor will do group demonstrations and work with students individually. Glazing will be covered for both topics.
*A bottle is the intersection between a jar and a vase!
Thursdays 6:30pm for 7 weeks beginning January 9th for $400 with Daniel. (Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, & 13)
Intro to Handbuilding: Marble, Color & Carve
Handbuidling teaches how to make pottery without using the wheel. It is a more artistic and relaxed practice than the wheel. Classes lead students through using plaster molds, applying colored slip, carving and marbling. Students will make an array of pieces from mugs to planters and from trays to bowls. Students will learn to apply color in four ways: colored clay, colored slip, underglazes, and glazing.
Thursdays at 6pm for 6 weeks beginning January 9th for $350. (Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 6, & 13.)
Glazes Techniques: Making and Using Oxide Washes
Join us for a deep dive on oxide washes. An oxide wash is a metallic glaze colorant that's a mixture of a metallic oxide and water that can be used to create color washes, enhance texture, and add metallic accents or earthy hues to pottery. You’ll learn what they are, how to spot them, how to make them from raw materials, and how to apply them. Beginners and advanced are welcome.
Week 1: What is a ceramic oxide? What is an oxide wash? Learn the science what’s going on and how to apply them to bisqueware. We’ll provide example pieces and basic washes to get started. We’ll also handbuild some pieces with texture. Week 2: Make your first, custom oxide washes from scratch and apply them to your bisqueware. Week 3: Evaluate your pieces and oxide washes and make more! Week 4: Try out final batches and recipes.
Tuesdays at 6:00-8:30pm: Jan 14, 21, 28 & Feb 4 for $225. Taught by Ashley. Students will receive open studio access but students can purchase clay separately.
This is part of our “Glazing” series. #1 Troubleshooting #2 Oxide Washes #3 Wild Clay, and #4 Glazing mixing will follow over the course of 2025. No need to take prior classes to take this one.
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