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Find a fresh approach in developing your creative expression as you explore new forms, techniques, and surface designs in handbuilding. Projects primarily will focus on small to large functional works, but sculptural and individual or collaborative ideas also are encouraged. Prerequisite: Beginning Handbuilding. For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes, the tuition includes a $98…
This class explores the firing process of Callanwolde Pottery Studio’s Cross-Draft Soda Kiln. Students will study the effects of introducing Soda into the kiln and the effects that can be achieved with flashing slips and glaze. Our main spring quarter throwing project will focus on lidded vessels. For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes, the…
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Reconnect breath with body. In this class we’ll use meditation and breathing techniques (pranayama) to calm the nervous system, move through postures (asanas) for strength, flexibility and balance, cultivate mindfulness and relax into a state of well-being. This class is appropriate for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners. You’ll leave feeling restored and renewed. Please…
Internship course for learning to operate a pottery studio. Kiln firing and design, basic glaze formulation, and photographic techniques will be covered. You will work with assistants and attend 5 mandatory lecture sessions. (This course is required prior to application for pottery assistantship.) Tuition includes the cost of studio manual.
Drawing 1.5 is for students who have already received Introduction to Drawing. This is a self-guided course, where students are given assignments and asked to work independently while receiving guidance and constructive feedback. In-class critiques will take place after the completion of every assignment.
The first 3-4 weeks we will make cups, bowls and vase forms using basic pinch, coil and soft slab construction methods. We will also make cylindrical roller stamps and other stamps that can be used to add texture and pattern to work. In the remaining classes, we will focus on building more complex forms. By…
Handbuilding is the art of making ceramic forms without the use of a potter’s wheel. Students will study the basics of building pots by pinch, coil, and/or slab built techniques, and learn the important safety guidelines and procedures of ceramics studio.
This is the perfect entry level class for beginning wheel students. It will cover the basic techniques of throwing, glazing, and firing. Students will also learn the important safety guidelines and procedures of the ceramics studio. Projects on the wheel will focus on small forms (cups, bowls, saucers). For all virtual and onsite Pottery classes,…
In this intermediate class, students will learn to create unique clay forms by altering their wheel-through vessels into new functional and sculptural creations. This altered pottery class will focus on transforming wheel-thrown forms into non-round shapes through bending, cutting and attaching, and adding hand-built elements. The goal is to move beyond the traditional circular form…