Intro To Throwing Clay On The Wheel: Session A 7/7-11 Week 3
Have you ever wanted to make your own pots using the potter’s wheel? Students will learn this process through teacher demonstrations, individual instruction and wheel time. Glazes will be used to finish the pieces making the work functional. Be sure to bring a smock or wear old clothes.
Intro To Throwing Clay On The Wheel: Session B 8/11-15 Week 8
Have you ever wanted to make your own pots using the potter’s wheel? Students will learn this process through teacher demonstrations, individual instruction and wheel time. Glazes will be used to finish the pieces making the work functional. Be sure to bring a smock or wear old clothes.
Secret Sculptures 6/30-7/3 Week 2
This class explores the magic of finding art where you don’t expect it! Participants will learn
how to make “secret” clay sculptures to hide around the GAC grounds and around town.
Students will make slip cast “rocks” with surprises inside, a camouflage sculpture using
textures from nature, and an independent ultra top-secret final project! This class will introduce
participants to hand building and slip casting clay techniques, and include some time for
drawing and planning a scavenger hunt. Please note: NO class Friday 7/4
Hand Building With Clay: Session A 6/23-27 Week 1
In this class students will be taught the hand building methods of pinch, slab and coil. We’ll be using them singly and in combination to create a variety of sculptural and functional pieces. Students will also have time to work on projects of their choosing. Glazes will be used to complete the work.
Hand Building With Clay: Session B 7/14-18 Week 1
In this class students will be taught the hand building methods of pinch, slab and coil. We’ll be using them singly and in combination to create a variety of sculptural and functional pieces. Students will also have time to work on projects of their choosing. Glazes will be used to complete the work.
Clay Architects and Sculptors 7/28-8/1 Week 6
Learn sculpture and 3D skills while you make a Doll House, Club house, Boat, or Video Character environment. Try your hand at clay, cardboard and wood bits, pipe cleaners, fabric, wire, and pompoms.
Create a Clay Circus 8/18-22 Week 9
Make a circus out of clay from Mother Earth. In a circus there are ponies and horses and riders with plumes, dogs that jump through rings, a music band, acrobats on swings! Talking parrots and monkeys on trikes. We can add fabric and wire to make a tent, the flying trapeze and the tightrope.
Ceramic Animal Art 8/4-8 Week 7
This class is about making art for humans and animals to enjoy! Participants will learn basic clay skills (hand building, using slump molds, glazing) and paper-making techniques to create 3 unique projects for pets and wild animals to play on, live in, and/or eat. In creating our sculptures students will learn a bit about animal habitat use and conservation in our local environment.
Weekend Wheel Throwing and Handbuilding for Kids
In this class students will learn both hand building and wheel throwing techniques. Students will make functional pottery on the pottery wheel, or by using coils, slabs and pinching. Imaginative sculptural projects are also encouraged, and we will utilize a variety of tools to achieve texture and pattern, along with slips and glazes to decorate […]
Pottery/Clay Sculpture
Children will learn skills to create kiln fired pottery while engaged in fun projects. Experiment with coil, slab, pinch and glazing techniques. Children will also become familiar with how to use a variety of clay tools, and different methods to create design and texture in clay. Come join the exciting fun and see how your […]
