Creature Feature

Creature Feature

Summer Class | This course is completed

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States

Ceramic Studio Annex

All Levels/Intergenerational/16 to Adult

6/22/2021-8/10/2021

6:00 PM-9:00 PM EDT on Tue

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$245.00

Member Discount Available

$25.00

Bring your appreciation of creatures with you and let's create using coils and pinched forms. We will discuss and augment the best characteristics of your favorite critters in clay. Build with various clay bodies that best suit your varmints. Glaze in ways that enhance the best aspects of your specimens. Master the application of wings, horns, scales and gills. Appreciate the differences with low and high firings and learn to dip, drip, and spray three different glazes on your work or allow the raw clay body to highlight your sculpted forms. Texturing before, during and after shaped work is optioned to artists. No Rabies vaccination is required. Minimum enrollment needed to run each program, so please don't wait to register!

This course has loosely specific lessons each week. The course also allows individuals to work on a side project and/or major project of choosing with the assistance of the instructor.

• Dip, then drip, then spray three different glazes on one piece. Glazing the non-functional piece that is not a bowl, cup or platter.
• Glaze minimalist techniques and alternatives. Wax resist for texture and surface décor. Using the unglazed clay body to finish a piece.
• Building by addition. Arms, legs, tails, horns, wings, beaks, scales, fur – adhering clay to clay.
• Enhancing a mundane functional piece with a creation you design and adhere.
• Animal silhouette slab renderings
• A simplistic approach to clay. Learning to accept certain aspects of the creature you are making without attempting to do every attribute (a silhouette in clay).

  • Clay is not included in lab fee.
  • Please Note:  This class is planned as an in person class and we expect that it will run the full semester in person.  However, there is an ongoing need to adhere to guidance and safety practices in order to safely manage the COVID-19 situation.  The guidelines from state government and public health authorities change as time progresses and the CAC may need to make adjustments accordingly.  It is possible that this class will transition to an online format at some point during the semester.  In this case, tuition refunds will not be issued unless the CAC is unable to provide the same number of class sessions as initially planned either in person or in a remote format. 
  • 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 kiln specific class or workshop at the CAC. Please call or stop by the office to sign up.
  • Students should bring basic clay tools (which can be purchased at CAC).
Hagmayer, Brad

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.