Creature Feature
Summer Class | Available
We will begin with hand-built forms and rather than remove clay by cutting and carving, we will add textured elements. Projects will start as basic functional forms and progress to more complex animal forms. The semester will also include traditional lessons using test tiles, making your work smooth, and use of wire as decor or functionally as a tool for hanging. Glaze understanding and discovery for work, to prevent running over the sides of your work, allowing the clay body to remain exposed with no glaze and how to safely use glaze combinations.
Additional projects for this semester may also include ornaments, Black Clay, adding a glass element to your work, and beginning your year-long Chess Set creation - all with a theme from the animal, fish and insect kingdoms. Let’s start pinching and rolling some clay!
Schedule Notes:
There will be a substitute instructor, Pat Hoban, on 7/14/2026.
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 $25 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).
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.