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.
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.
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 […]
Pottery: The Wheel & More
Want to make ceramics on the potters' wheel? This class is for you. Come learn all the techniques and steps to make successful pottery on the wheel, including wedging, shaping, trimming, decorating and glazing.
Kids Pottery By Wheel & Hand
Students will work on the potter’s wheel and learn hand building methods as well. Beginners will learn all the basics of pottery while returning students will get a chance to improve their skills on new projects. Students can make some pieces to use for food and drink; there will also be time to explore their […]
Making Pottery – “Pas De Deux”
Veteran instructors Anita Griffith and Robert Parrott team-up to combine the best of their approaches to teaching pottery. Alternating weeks of instruction, Anita and Bob will offer a comprehensive survey of hand building and wheel throwing, with an emphasis on form, function, and development of personal style and expression. Learn about ceramic shapes and uses, […]
