Multi-Week Classes
Our classes meet once a week for 2.5 hours each week. Nov/Dec classes are posted below. All classes skip the week of Thanksgiving.
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. Taught by Jerry.
Mondays 6:30pm for 6 weeks for $350 taught by Jerry: November 4, 11, 18, (skip 25) Dec 2, 9, 16.
Tuesdays at 6:30pm for 7 weeks for $375: Oct 29, Nov 5, 12, 19, (skip 26) Dec 3, 10, 17.
Next Step Wheel: In Pursuit of the Perfect Mug
Just in time for the holiday season, learn how to make the perfect gift: beautiful hand-thrown mugs that feel just right in your hands. In this class, you’ll learn how to throw and construct mugs by thinking through and designing for ergonomics, weight, size, texture, and style. You’ll learn how to throw body shapes with thoughtful angles and curves with consideration for your personal style.
We’ll then do a deep dive into handles: you’ll learn several techniques for making handles, designing shapes to account for weight and force, integrating unique handle designs into the overall mug design, and attaching handles and troubleshooting cracks. Finally, we’ll dive into decoration and glazing that plays into your style and creative strengths.
Wednesdays at 6:30pm for 6 weeks beginning Nov 6 for $350 with Keisha https://www.quicheceramics.com (Nov 6, 13, 20, (skip 27,) Dec 4, 11, 18)
This class is aimed at students who have taken at least one wheel classes before. This builds off of beginner centering skills and will help you advance your skills.
Intermediate Wheel: All Things Vases
Bud Vases, Cylinder Vases, and Bulb Vases
An intermediate class where students learn vase techniques. We’ll learn how to close forms and collar cylinders into simple vases. We’ll cover bud vases and short, round vases. Then we’ll move onto taller vases with thin necks, and finally larger, rotund forms similar to moon jars. We’ll cover trimming vases on chucks and unusual forms. Other techniques included: how to bring more mass up from the base, how to achieve uniform, thin walls, and how to have enough clay left at the top to be able to close the form.
Thursdays 6:30pm for 6 weeks beginning November 7 for $350 with Daniel. (November 7, 14, 21 (skip 28,) Dec 5, 12, 19)
Handbuilding Winter Crafts: Candles & Ornaments
Get cozy this winter making solstice and Christmas themed crafts. Candles, ornaments, and figures. We’ll focus on single candle holders, sculptural candelabras (multiple candles,) hanging ornaments, and decorations…all with a modern and minimal flair.
In the first lesson we’ll cover techniques related to working at at small and precise scale. We’ll work through a single candle holder and in lesson two we’ll advance to multiple candles or pieces that join together. In later classes we’ll focus on hanging ornaments and small figurines, like trees or snowflakes.
You’ll be invited to bring in example pieces and photographs to talk about style and design. We’ll have group discussions on design as well as one-on-one instructor time to work through your own projects. All pieces will be fired and you’ll learn to apply glaze as well. Beginners through advanced welcome.
Sundays at 10:30am for 7 weeks for $350: Nov 3, 10, 17, 24, (skip Dec 1,) Dec 8, 15, 22.
Glazing Techniques & Troubleshooting
Have you labored over a beautiful piece and then wrecked it with a messy glaze application? Would you like to understand why fingerprints show in some glazes but not in others? Interested in understanding why layering two foodsafe glazes does not automatically yield a foodsafe application? Understand what “foodsafe” actually means? Would you like to learn how metal oxide washes work and how to make them? We’ll provide bisqueware for you to test new techniques on without fear. Bring your questions. Beginners and advanced are welcome.
Week 1: Smoothing fingerprints, catching crawl before it begins, ways to glaze without wax. Week 2: Layering glazes, crawling, pinholing. Week 3: Learning to mix and use oxide washes. Week 4: All things troubleshooting: compression cracks, crazing, food safety, and your questions.
Tuesdays at 6:30-9:00pm: Nov 5, 12, 19 & Dec 3 for $225. Taught by Ashley. Students will receive open studio access but students can purchase clay separately.
This is the first class in our 4-part “Glazing” series. #2 Oxides/Slip Making, #3 Wild Clay, and #4 Glazing mixing will follow over the course of 2025.
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