**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**

Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.

**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**

Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.

Create functional hand built items for your garden. Explore your style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include planters, watering cans, plant stakes, and bird feeders.

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.

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.

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.

Develop your unique style of hand building and glaze techniques. Explore individual style with a preconceived idea or based on a class demonstration. Students will be encouraged to push the boundaries of design and function of utilitarian pottery. Learn to experiment with glazes and glaze techniques.
Prereq: Beginning Handbuilding or similar experience. Class is 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