This class will introduce you to the joy of creating beautiful, sound, and well-crafted art with clay. Instruction will include essential techniques including pinch pot, coil, and slab construction. Projects will encourage personal creativity using texture and other decorative enhancement. Instruction in glazing will be included. All levels are welcome. Tuition covers glaze materials and kiln firing. Clay and tools are available for purchase. (Wheel access during this class time is available to Intermediate/Advanced students only.)

This class will introduce you to creating pottery using a potter’s wheel. You’ll learn the steps of “throwing” basic forms with stoneware clay in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. You will also learn how to glaze your work. No previous wheelthrowing experience required.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Ceramics or equivalent experience. (Int/adv wheelthrowers are also welcome)

This class will offer instruction in techniques in wheel throwing, as well as methods of surface decoration and glazing. This class is for intermediate and advanced students only and encourages learning, creativity, and community!

This class will expand upon the handbuilding skills learned in earlier classes.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Ceramics or equivalent experience. 

Explore how line, shape, texture, and composition move from drawing and surface design into clay construction. Learn hollow building techniques, structural integrity, armature use, and developing sculptural presence in the round.

Students should have experience in handbuilding or wheelthrowing. 

Intermediate/Advanced

Students will learn the history and evolution of Raku, how raku glaze is formulated for low-fire rapid cooling, and the role of combustion and reduction chambers in creating crackle, metallic, and carbonized surfaces.

This course is for students with prior handbuilding or wheel experience

Learn how to get reliable, expressive results in high-fire reduction. Learn the right way to apply glaze and how to be more creative in your approach to the glazed surface. Explore the technical side - glaze materials, chemistry, and firing dynamics, kiln atmosphere, and how reduction affects color development and surface quality. 

tudents will learn how to successfully transition from small functional work to medium and large-scale vessels (5–20+ lbs). Emphasis will be placed on efficient body mechanics, structural integrity, sectional construction, and refining form at scale.

This course is for students who can comfortably center 3–5 lbs of clay independently.