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.