Nocturnal Creature Feature

Nocturnal Creature Feature

Fall Class | Registration opens Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States
Ceramic Studio Annex
All Levels
9/9/2025-11/25/2025
6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Tue
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$415.00
Member Discount Available
$35.00

Nocturnal Creature Feature

Fall Class | Registration opens Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

A simplistic approach to clay. 

 

Bring your appreciation of creatures with you and let’s create using coils and pinched forms. 

 

This course will have lessons/demos each week with the option to take the task on hand or work on your own project at your own pace. 

 

Learn to build your piece, not from removing clay, but by adding to finish your form. Wings, horns, hooves and scales on work that options for low fire or high fire finishing. 

 

Functional Artist can also how to build a nonfunctional creature to augment their thrown work. 

  • Clay is not included in lab fee. Clay is to be purchased through the office. Purchase can be made via email, by phone and/or in person during office hours. Please note specific clay body when placing order. Porcelain clay bodies (257 and 437) are priced at $60 per unit. Non-porcelain clay bodies are priced at $35 per unit. Purchase in advance of class and present receipt to instructor before collecting clay.

    Please note: 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/semester. Only available to students who have previously taken a soda specific class or workshop at CAC.




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

Brad Hagmayer is a Ceramic Artist from Royersford, Pennsylvania. Beyond Royersford, Brad spent much of his life in Ocean City, New Jersey where his father operated a gift shop on the boardwalk till 1972 and the family continues strong ties with the city by way of a second home.
Brad has been doing art since a young child and has won numerous awards in several mediums. A graduate of Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg Pennsylvania, with a BA in Art Studio, in 1988. Brad has focused his talents in the last ten years on his ceramic arts.
He is a member of the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania where he is known for his Octopus, Mushrooms, Rabbits and French Bulldogs as well as a few other creatures.
He works with both Low Fire and High Fire clays and glazes and dabbles in Raku as well. Brad has also practically used his admiration with animals by spending his adult life working in the Veterinary Field and is currently a Practice Manager for a veterinary office in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.