Multi-Week Classes
Our classes meet once a week for 2.5 hours each week. March+April classes are in session. May classes will be posted online on Monday, April 13th at noon, but our Saturday class is available for signups now.
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 5 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. Our instructors teach through group demonstrations, discussions about example pieces, and one-on-one questions and feedback. We are here to help and want you to excel. We encourage all students to come practice on days outside of their class.
May + June
Saturdays at 10:30am for 4 weeks for $250 taught by Bill: May 2, 9, 16, and 30th. SIGN UP NOW. Age 13+
Sundays at 10:30am for 5 weeks for $280 taught by Theresa. May 31, June 6, 13, 20, 27. SIGN UP NOW. Age 13+
Mondays 6:30pm for 8 weeks for $425 taught by Cathy: April 27, May 4, 11, 18 [skip 25,] June 1, 8, 15, & 22
Tuesdays 6:30pm for 8 weeks for $425 taught by Jerry: April 28, May 5, 12, 19, [skip 26,] June 2, 9, 16, & 23.
Introduction to Handbuilding: Tableware & Design
Spend 8 weeks making your own set of dishes by hand. Each lesson will guide you through a new piece: plates, salad plates, bowls, mugs, and finally serving pieces. We start with bowls, plates and cups, but the techniques you’ll learn will lead you to more ambitious pieces like pitchers, trays, and charcuterie boards. Students will learn a variety of surface decoration techniques, slab construction, plaster molds, templates and glazing. This class is beginner friendly, and open to people of all skill levels.
In the first lesson you’ll try a few techniques so you can work through the style of your set. In the second lesson you’ll be invited to bring in dishes and bowls to use as templates to learn how to pour your own plaster hump molds. You’ll plan your path so you can create a cohesive look across your pieces. After that you’ll move onto specific pieces. Pieces will be fired and glazed throughout the class.
Wednesdays at 6:30pm with Jerry for 8 weeks: May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17 and 24 for $425.
Next Step Wheel: Multiples!
In this class you will begin by exploring a variety of forms; whether a bowl, cup, plate or another piece of your choice. This focused exploration will allow you to narrow down you protoytpes to one piece you’re most interested in.
Next we’ll focus on refining your skills to throw multiple of the same piece, creating a cohesive set of 4 to 8. (Ambitious students are welcome to throw multiple sets!)
With multiples, leaning into the details is key. Perfecting rims, feet, handles, and other sepcific areas are all a means to transforming your pieces into a cohesive and polished body of work. Prototypes from earlier weeks will serve as glaze test and texture experiements, guiding us towards refinement. Now that you’re a potter and all your friends constantly ask for dishware, this is the perfect class to hone your craft!
This is a Next Step class focused on new forms and shapes.
Thursdays at 6:30pm with Daniel for 8 weeks: March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16, 23.
Children & Teens!
Imagine looking at a piece from across the room, and knowing on instinct that it’s yours. Or imagine your friend picking up a piece in the studio and calling you over, knowing you made it because it feels like you.
This class will develop your ceramics practice by focusing on style and cohesion. After working through beginner classes, many students struggle to push their work to exhibit design and detail that embodies their own ethos. This class will draw out your creativity and develop your sense of design.
We’ll focus on ways to create cohesion without making multiples of the same piece. For example, designing rims, edges, planning gold luster, glaze colors and textures, balancing glazed and unglazed areas, proportions, and foot rings. An advanced potter can make dissimilar pieces like a teapot and a spoon rest into a cohesive set.
This class will teach design, playfulness, and curiosity of new constraints. Ashley will work with each student as they sketch and plan their pieces, and help with throwing and handbuilding skills to achieve it. The class will have an organic quality, guided by student curiosity. Bring your inspiration! Each class will begin with a design lecture and discussion. Afterwards, Ashley will work with students individually on their progress. This class will include a multitude of “tips and tricks” for throwing and working with clay, but not include throwing demonstrations. Class includes 25lbs of clay.
In addition to Ashley’s background in sculpture, design, and interiors she is well versed in construction and bringing ideas into reality. She has lectured and critiqued at design studios at UC Berkeley, CCA, and Washington State University.
Students should have taken two full beginners sessions and feel confident to make a variety of shapes and forms. Handbuilders and Wheel Throwers are equally encouraged.
Tuesdays at 6:30pm with Ashley for 7 weeks in March/April for $400.
March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, (skip April 7,) April 14, 21.
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