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
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
Course Description:
Learn the basics of woodturning in this one-day workshop, and take home a lovely turned bowl of your own making! No previous experience in woodworking needed.
Skill Level: Beginner
Course Description:
In this three-session workshop, you’ll learn the basics of Paper Mache—how to build forms, layer for strength, and finish your project with paint and decoration. No experience needed, just your creativity!
Skill Level: Beginner
Course Description:
Using water-based inks, alcohol inks, watercolor, and metal tools to create designs and textures on Claybord and Scratchbord is creative, joyful, and relaxing. Come join the fun!
Skill Level: Beginner
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
Course Description:
Adaptive ceramics is a starting point for everyone that may be apprehensive, allowing students to become comfortable and familiar with clay. Grow, learn, and become confident in what you create. Working with clay in both hand building and wheel throwing reduces anxiety. Patience with yourself and others is encouraged.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Learn pinch, coil, and slab techniques to create a variety of projects ranging from functional vessels to sculptural forms, figures, and tiles. Paint and carve while exploring with slips and glazes. Historical and contemporary artists will be introduced for inspiration. More advanced students will be encouraged to hone their skills and develop projects.
Skill Level: All levels
Course Description:
For those experienced in wheel thrown ceramics, hone your technique. Learn to use clay more efficiently, and make increasingly complex forms. Weekly demonstrations will include throwing, building, and glazing techniques.
Skill Level: Advanced
Course Description:
Learn and advance your throwing skills and glazing technique. Projects center around creating functional pottery forms---mugs, dinnerware, pitchers, vases, and covered forms. Beginning students should purchase a beginner's pottery set from a local store.
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
