Classes & Workshops Ceramics

Hand building Explorations

Hand building Explorations

  • Mondays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 9, 2025
  • Instructor: Vince Sansone
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Handbuilding Across Cultures Mon 6:30PM

Handbuilding Across Cultures Mon 6:30PM

  • Mondays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 9, 2025
  • Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
  • Location: Main Campus

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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Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm

Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm

  • Mondays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 9, 2025
  • Instructor: Jesus Minguez
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Altered Pottery

Altered Pottery

  • Tuesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Delila Smalley
  • Location: Main Campus

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. Prereq: TD Beginning Wheel Throwing or similar exp. Course not suitable for beginners.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Vadim Malkin
  • Location: Main Campus

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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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)

Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Vadim Malkin
  • Location: Main Campus

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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Pouring and Drinking Vessels

Pouring and Drinking Vessels

  • Tuesdays | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Robert Reedy
  • Location: Main Campus

An investigation into the design and function of the ceramic pouring and drinking vessels. Gain handbuilding and wheel throwing skills through the creative exploration, design and construction of different types of functional and abstract forms. We'll explore different types of handles and the ergonomic issues facing utilitarian forms. Though focused on handbuilding skills, there will be some opportunity to combine thrown components.

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Decorative Clay for the Home

Decorative Clay for the Home

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Kelly Evans
  • Location: Main Campus

Have fun exploring your own style while making creative pieces for your home. Special emphasis is placed on surface design with students experimenting with wax resist and carving, along with occasional additions post firing such as wood and fiber.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 10AM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 10AM)

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Instructor: August Mendez
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden

Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden

  • Tuesdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 10, 2025
  • Level: All
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Comm Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Jars, jugs, platters, and bowls! Explore form and surface decoration, as you create pottery vessels to gather, store, and present food. Suitable for all levels. Handbuilders and throwers are welcome!

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Evening Pottery Throwdown

Evening Pottery Throwdown

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 11, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus
A more informal, larger group guided independent study time with a focus on fun and togetherness, space to stretch out on ideas and projects with teacher and community support. Come with goals, ideas and a joyful heart, ready for learning, sharing, music and some laughs.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing;  or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).

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The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 11, 2025
  • Instructor: Robert Reedy
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore your creativity while focusing on functional serving ware through a variety of handbuilding processes. Students of all levels will learn and explore new skills and techniques and how to apply the visual elements and principles of design to create serving vessels of their own design and imagination.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)

  • Wednesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 11, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 11, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs 1PM

Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs 1PM

  • Thursdays | 01:00 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 12, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

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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Altars & Wall Shelves

Altars & Wall Shelves

  • Thursdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 12, 2025
  • Instructor: August Mendez
  • Location: Main Campus

Design and create unique functional wall pieces, such as altars and shelves. Use a slab roller, an extruder, and other tools to create these forms. Focus on the building process, form, structure, as well as decoration and finishing techniques.

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Hand building Basics

Hand building Basics

  • Thursdays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 12, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

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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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 12, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Creative Hand Building

Creative Hand Building

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn a variety of hand building skills though instructor demonstrations of hands on slab, coil and pinch techniques to create original and decorative pieces.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)

  • Fridays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)

  • Saturdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Delila Smalley
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures

Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures

  • Sundays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Sarah Johnston
  • Location: Main Campus

How do meditation and mud relate to one another? Decompress and feel refreshed for the week ahead. Class will start with a short 5-minute guided meditation with clay. Learn handbuilding, stamp-making and underglaze layering techniques to create a series of vessels. You will leave feeling centered and inspired; ready to greet a new week.

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Tile Making for Home and Garden

Tile Making for Home and Garden

  • Sundays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Sarah Johnston
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn basic tile-making skills such as relief, mosaics, and painted wall tiles, along with the techniques to keep your tiles flat and how to adhere and grout your work. Learn to plan and implement projects for homes and gardens, i.e. backsplashes, indoor/outdoor murals, framed mirrors, wall hangings and garden stepping stones.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 7)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 7)

  • Sundays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: June 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

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.

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