Description: This is a semi-private 2.5 hour per week ceramics class for novice potters and potters with some experience. Students may practice their hand-building and/or wheel-throwing skills during this course. The class is capped at 5 to ensure that everyone enrolled will have access to a wheel should the student decide to focus on wheel-throwing only. Wheel-throwers will practice centering, pulling walls, and trimming to form finished pieces. Hand-builders will receive individualized instruction based on self-designed projects using coiling, pinching, and slab-building techniques.
Dates: The class meets 6 times. 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24, 6/7. Note: The studio is closed on 5/31 Memorial Day Week.
Age Group: Only students in the age range listed in the course title are eligible for enrollment. Students who do not meet the age criteria must contact ceramics@fyamelrose.org to ask for permission to participate.