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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

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

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Heads Up!

Explore the pinched form by creating small unique and playful human heads. Manipulate the clay from the inside of the pinched form to enhance facial features before closing up the form. Design a base for you head to sit on and add finishing and decorative elements to create a group of unique characters. Not Suitable for beginners.
Prereq: Hand Building Basics, Hand Building Across Cultures, or similar exp

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Hand Building Basics – Thursday

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.

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Hand Building Basics – Sunday

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.

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Hand Building Across Cultures Mon

Dive into honoring the beauty of culture clay techniques from around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.

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Clay and the Garden

Pottery and Gardening go hand-in-hand. Let the garden influence the decoration of a serving vessel for nature’s harvest. Create a water oasis for feathered and furry backyard visitors or top off a fencepost with a nature inspired finial!

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Animal Creations in Clay

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.

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Altered Pottery

Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round.
Prerequisite Beginning Wheel Throwing or similar experience Course is not suitable for beginners.

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Hand Building Independent Intensive

This exciting and innovative course will ask students to identify a clay focused artistic goal for the session. Four separate instructors will lead one 2 week block which will include a hand building or surface decoration demonstration and goal specific feedback. This class is designed for the advanced ceramicist that wants to hone their skills and refine their voice through clay.
Prereg: Hand Building Basics and 2 additional handbuilding classes

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30

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