Current ClassesStart with your hands.
For our inaugural season we will start with the basics in ceramics and build as we go!
- Supplies included
- Beginners welcome
- Ages six and up
- One price per course
Elementary
Pottery For Kids, 6 to 9
Dates: Saturdays, October 17 and 24
Introduction to clay and the pottery-making process using hand-building methods. Make pinch pots and learn coiling, slab work techniques, painting, glazing and firing.
Supplies included. All of it, with no additional costs, and the price covers the whole course rather than each session.
Elementary
Pottery For Kids, 9 to 12
Dates: Saturdays, October 17, 24 and 31
Introduction to clay and the pottery-making process using hand-building methods. Make pinch pots and learn coiling, slab work techniques, painting, glazing and firing.
Supplies included. All of it, with no additional costs, and the price covers the whole course rather than each session.
Teens and adults
Intro to Pottery 1
Dates: Wednesdays, October 14, 21 and 28
Create beautiful pots and clay forms using simple tools. Explore hand building with the three most common forms of creating hand-built pots: pinch-pot, coiling and slab techniques. Paint, glaze and kiln fire your pieces. This class requires little to no experience.
Supplies included. All of it, with no additional costs, and the price covers the whole course rather than each session.
Teens and adults
Intro to the Wheel
Dates: Orientation Thursday October 8, then Thursdays from October 15
Introduction to the potter's wheel with emphasis on clay preparation, centering, firing and glazing. This class introduces traditional techniques for cylinders, cups and other foundational forms. After one orientation week, plus 6 instructional weeks, students will take home 4 to 6 pieces of finished work. This class requires little to no experience.
Supplies included. All of it, with no additional costs, and the price covers the whole course rather than each session.
Workshop
Halloween Ghost-O-Lantern
Dates: Saturday October 10, collect your finished piece on the 17th
Build your own ghost from slab clay and carve his fancy face.
Supplies included. All of it, with no additional costs, and the price covers the whole course rather than each session.
Interested?
Ask about a placeNo payment yet.
Tell us which class and we will be in touch. Nothing is charged here and nothing is confirmed until we have spoken.
Which one should I take?
The wheel, or
the table.
At the wheel, the clay spins and you shape it against your hands. It is genuinely hard for the first hour, and then something clicks and it is one of the better feelings available to a person. That is Intro to the Wheel.
At the table, you build by hand: pinch pots, coils, slabs, stamps. No machine, no fighting for center, and it is where everybody starts. That is Intro to Pottery 1, and both children's courses.
Neither is the beginner version of the other. They are different crafts that happen to share a kiln.
Before you come
What people
actually ask
What should I wear?
Clothes you do not mind marking. Wet clay washes out of most things but not reliably out of everything. Short nails help enormously at the wheel, and long sleeves want rolling past the elbow.
Do I take my piece home that night?
No, and this surprises everybody the first time. Clay has to dry, then be fired, then glazed, then fired again. The Halloween workshop is the clearest example: you build your ghost on Saturday 10 October and collect it the following Saturday. The six stages are laid out on the How Firing Works page.
Do I need to bring anything?
No. Every class this season says supplies are included.
I have never done this. Will I be behind?
Behind whom? Most people in the room are in exactly the same position, and both Intro courses say in so many words that they need little to no experience.
Can I come and watch first?
Come to the Open House on October 1, 2 or 3. That is precisely what it is for, and it costs nothing.
Come once and
find out.
Short courses for children, teens and adults, and something real to take home once it has been fired.