Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

Use hand building and wheel methods to create an animal from a photo or a drawing using simple geometric forms. Start with simple forms on the potter’s wheel and finish your creation using hand building techniques.
Prereq: Hand Building Basics, Beginning Wheel Throwing, or similar experience. Class not suitable for beginners.

Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing

Experiment with paper, plants, fabric, and more as you create hand-built pottery with unique texture and pattern. Make you own stamps and spring molds to personalize your work as we create nature-inspired pottery.

Experiment with colored slips and clay, transfers, and more to enhance the clay surface. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery.

Explore and celebrate unique clay techniques from cultures around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.

Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.

Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: Hand Building Across Cultures; Hand Building Basics; or similar experience. Not suitable for beginners.

Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.