Classes & Workshops

Instructor: Lisa Walker

This beginner class will cover the fundamentals of wheel throwing, including wedging, centering, pulling and more. No experience required.

Instructor: Jane Zell

This hybrid class series will cover both wheel throwing and basic hand-building and surface decorating techniques tailored to your interests. No experience required.

Instructor: Lisa Walker

This All Levels class is perfect for students looking to work in an environment where they have the support of an instructor while improving both wheel throwing and hand-building skills. No experience required.

Instructor: Lisa Walker

This All Levels class is perfect for students looking to work in an environment where they have the support of an instructor while improving both wheel throwing and hand-building skills. No experience required.

Instructor: Martín Hanley

This beginner class series will help students new to the potter’s wheel learn the foundations of throwing. No experience necessary.

Instructor: Lisa WB Walker

This intermediate class series will guide advanced beginners to the next level of wheel throwing skill. A strong foundation with basic wheel throwing is required - students should be able to center and pull walls proficiently.

Instructor: Martín Hanley

This intermediate class series will help advanced beginners get to the next level of throwing. Students are required to have a strong foundation of throwing, including being able to center and pull straight walls independently.

Instructor: Elissa Dunlap

This is an excellent opportunity for potters to participate in a gold luster firing! Learn how to prep your surface and apply luster decoratively in different ways. Pots will be fired immediately following the workshop and ready for pick up shortly thereafter.

IMPORTANT: Students must bring their own bottle of gold or silver luster rated to fire at 018 or share with another participant. Please bring pots that have already been through a glaze firing. Pots with matte glaze with have matte gold luster results, and glossy glazes will yield glossy luster results.

This workshop takes place outdoors - please dress accordingly. The rain date is Friday, June 6, 10am-1pm.

This course is a required prerequisite for current CSAs who would like to participate in future luster firings.

Have you always wanted to try the wheel? Or are you ready to dust off your skills from a time past?

Join us for a special opportunity to learn how to use the potter's wheel from a seasoned professional! Under their guidance, learn the basics of throwing. At the end of the night, choose one piece to keep. We will glaze the piece for you with your preferred glaze color! 

Instructor: Madeline Fine

Create beautiful organic forms. Leaf earrings or Leaf pendant Time to turn over a new leaf? Create three-dimensional forms from flat sheet metal. You’ll learn the basics of fold forming, an exciting and compelling technique that involves percussion and patience.

Instructor: Martín Hanley

This intermediate class series will help advanced beginners get to the next level of throwing. Students are required to have a strong foundation of throwing, including being able to center and pull straight walls independently.

Instructor:  Laurie Savage
Tuition: $100 | $40 material cost paid to instructor
Beginning jewelry-making students can continue learning in this workshop which focuses on creating a sterling silver pendant with a bezel-set cabochon stone. Students will develop their fabrication skills, including drilling, sawing, piercing, filing, multiple soldering techniques, tumbler finishing, and setting the stone. All materials will be provided: sterling silver sheet and bezel, copper (for practice), cabochon stone, saw blades, solder, and sandpaper. A materials fee of $40 is payable to the instructor on the day of the class.

Instructor: Caralyn Aufiero

This beginner class will cover the fundamentals of wheel throwing, including wedging, centering, pulling and more. No experience required.

Instructor: Jane Zell

This hybrid class series will cover both wheel throwing and basic hand-building and surface decorating techniques tailored to your interests. No experience required.

Instructor: Knaide Rosenberg

This All Levels class is perfect for students looking to work in an environment where they have the support of an instructor while improving both wheel throwing and hand-building skills. No experience required.

Instructor: Martín Hanley

This All Levels class is perfect for students looking to work in an environment where they have the support of an instructor while improving both wheel throwing and hand-building skills. No experience required.

Instructor: Kymberlee Keckler

This Intermediate level, 6-week project-centered class will be all about surface design! Techniques include creating texture using stamps & sprigs, stencils, inlay & trailing, water sanding, UG transfers, wax & latex glaze layering, and more!

Instructor: Martín Hanley

This beginner class series will help students new to the potter’s wheel learn the foundations of throwing. No experience necessary.

Instructor: Martín Hanley

This intermediate class series will help advanced beginners get to the next level of throwing. Students are required to have a strong foundation of throwing, including being able to center and pull straight walls independently.

Instructor: 
Diana Hsu

Have you been curious about using commercial glazes like Amaco Potter’s Choice? Join us for this demo-only Saturday morning workshop to learn all things commercial glazes, including how to select glaze, application techniques, glaze combinations and more.

Have you always wanted to try the wheel? Or are you ready to dust off your skills from a time past?

Join us for a special opportunity to learn how to use the potter's wheel from a seasoned professional! Under their guidance, learn the basics of throwing. At the end of the night, choose one piece to keep. We will glaze the piece for you with your preferred glaze color! 

Instructor: Elissa Dunlap

School’s out for summer! Join us for a fun one-week youth clay series, Monday-Friday 1:30pm-5:00pm. Students will learn the ins and outs of sculpting in this Hand-Building Class. No experience required. This course is appropriate for youth ages 8-12 years old.

Instructor: 
Emily Schuhmann

Have you always wanted to try making your own plaster mold but didn’t know where to start? Do you love incorporating natural motifs in your work? This workshop is for you!