Course Description:

Learn and advance your throwing skills and glazing technique. This course will focus on the fundamentals of constructing multi-part vessels, as well as showcasing small demos each week of different gifts you can give to your friends and family! The skills you'll acquire in this course will help improve skills such as pulling handles, throwing off the hump, and making lidded forms. This class is for experienced wheel throwers only. This is not a class for students with little experience.

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Course Description:

Introduction to the potter’s wheel, giving you a solid base on which to build your throwing skills.. Purchasing a beginner's pottery set from a local art store is required.

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Course Description:

This is for those interested in studio access without instruction. Anyone enrolling must have a studio orientation with the Ceramics Studio Coordinator and adhere to EAC’s studio policies on materials, clean-up, and entrance and exit procedures. Prerequisite: students enrolled in Independent Study must have completed one ceramics class at EAC. Time depends on class schedule and will be determined in the first week of class.

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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Course Description:

Snip, tear and assemble your way through the expressive medium of collage. Create compositions using a variety of papers and techniques to gather images, shapes and colors. To inspire your work, themes such as quotes, poems, landscape and personal imagery will be shared.

Skill Level: All Levels

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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

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

Course Description:

Paper Mache Sculpture: Form and Structure introduces paper mache as a versatile medium for constructing three-dimensional forms, whether representational or abstract. We will explore armature construction, layering methodologies, and surface development through hands-on projects. The course emphasizes structural integrity, balance, texture, and experimental approaches to form-making.

Skill Level: All Levels