Hand-Built Vessels: Exploring Forms in Clay

Course Description:

All skill levels are welcome to create a delightful variation on the vessel. Create a piece by joining slabs of clay to build a unique towering form that can be painted with colorful slips. Basic skills covered are wedging, rolling slabs, creating textures, scratching and attaching. Participants will choose a shop glaze, and the teacher will complete the ceramic process.

Skill Level: All Levels

 

Hand-Built Vessels: Exploring Forms in Clay

Record Type
Workshops

Course Description:

All skill levels are welcome to create a delightful variation on the vessel. Create a piece by joining slabs of clay to build a unique towering form that can be painted with colorful slips. Basic skills covered are wedging, rolling slabs, creating textures, scratching and attaching. Participants will choose a shop glaze, and the teacher will complete the ceramic process.

Skill Level: All Levels

 

Color Theory: A Complete Color Guide

Record Type
Workshops

Course Description:

In this three-session workshop, you’ll explore the foundations of color theory as both an art and a science. Through hands-on exercises and guided practice, you’ll learn how colors mix, match, and contrast, while gaining a deeper understanding of value, hue, chroma, and temperature. We’ll learn about different color systems (CMYK, RGB, HSB, grayscale), experiment with shade, tone, and tint, and practice strategies for color dominance and harmony.

Skill Level: Beginner

Creative Sewing Machine Techniques

Record Type
Classes

Course Description:

Discover how a basic sewing machine can add embellishment and dimension to fabric in your creative projects. Learn sewing techniques like fiber couching, thread sketching, applique, and techniques to add texture to fabric with ruffles, pleating, layered cutting, and controlled crumpling. 

Skill Level: Intermediate, Basic sewing knowledge is required

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Bookbinding: Basics and Beyond Ages 16+

Record Type
Classes

Course Description:

Learn the materials and methods of bookbinding, and make a variety of handmade books. Starting with folded books and pamphlet stitch, students will gradually hone their skill and continue on to more complex books. You will complete eight or more books over the course of the session, books that can be used as journals or given as gifts! 

Repeaters of the course will practice learning new skills alongside new binders, honing their craft.

Skill Level: Beginner