Exploring Handbuilding

Exploring Handbuilding

Summer Class | Registration opens Wednesday, May 7, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States
Handbuilding Room
All Levels
6/16/2025-8/4/2025
10:00 AM-1:30 PM EDT on Mon
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$300.00
Member Discount Available
$30.00

Exploring Handbuilding

Summer Class | Registration opens Wednesday, May 7, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

Whether you are a beginner or more advanced, explore the basics of coil, pinch and slab building techniques to make either functional or sculptural forms. You will learn what method of construction works best for your project ideas and will discover different ways of decorating through wax resist, underglazing, and underglaze transfer techniques. 

 

  • Clay is not included in the supply fee.  Clay purchased with your registration needs to be pick up in this semester.  Clay puchases do not carry over from one semester to the next when purchased with the class.  Clay can be purchased in the office as needed throughout the semester.


    Students who wish to fire work in the soda kiln and are currently registered in a class that is not soda kiln specific can do so for an additional $20 fee per semester. You will be sent instructions with specifics for firing in the Soda Kiln at the beginning of the semester. Please call or stop by the office to sign up.

  • Students should bring basic clay tools (which can be purchased at CAC).
Adams, Jean
Jean Adams

Jean Reiter Adams is a native of Bergen County, New Jersey. She earned her Bachelors of Arts degree in Art Education from Wilkes College in 1978. Since 1985, Jean has been teaching in the Art Department at Wilkes University, teaching both ceramic and survey classes. While she considers working at the potter’s wheel to be her first love, Jean has been teaching hand building techniques along with wheel throwing for the past thirty-seven years. 

“I enjoy making quiet and simple pots that you can live with and react to on a daily basis. I want my pots to serve a purpose, but also stand on their own as strong visual objects.  I am intrigued with how clay works; it is fluid by nature, then fixed, and fragile in its final form. I grew up in a house that valued working with your hands and the value of good craftsmanship. I have worked in clay since 1976 because I love the medium and that love has helped me stay excited for all these years. I strive for the highest quality that my abilities allow me to achieve – which is what I also look for in my students.”

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