Beyond Beginner 202 Ceramics with Amy Tischler | Thurs 6-9 pm | 2/27-4/10 | Spring 2025
Ceramics | Available
Dare to get MUDDIER! In this program, you'll get your hands dirty and make personalized gifts and/or handmade, food-safe dinnerware for your home while advancing your skills in ceramics.
Designed to take you beyond beginner to the next step, while working with clay using hand building and wheel throwing techniques. Learn how to throw tall cylinders, 2-part pieces, and create volume along with the knowledge to combine hand-built parts to enhance the wheel thrown forms. Push your skills to create lidded jars and multiples using a technique called “throwing off the hump.”
Individuals should have taken at least 2 beginner level courses, have the ability to center clay on the wheel, and all the necessary basic steps to complete a ceramic piece.
- All clay used in Art League ceramics classes must be purchased at the Art League. Clay purchased at the Art League cannot be brought outside of the studio. If additional time is needed to complete projects, students in a ceramics class may enroll in open studio time. Work produced in Art League classes must be constructed at a reasonable size so as to not overload the kilns. The Art League thanks its students for following guidelines to keep the kiln schedule under control so that all students receive their work back in a timely fashion.
- Students must purchase a basic beginner ceramics tool kit. For a limited time kits are available in the front office for purchase. Instructor will go over tools that need to be purchased during the first class meeting. Students may only work with and fire clay purchased from ALLI. Your teacher will review clay types on the first day of class, and you will be able to purchase at that time. Clay is $40 per bag.
Amy Tischler
Dare to be MUDDY!
In my classes you'll get your hands dirty and make personalized gifts and handmade/ food-safe dinnerware for your home while advancing your skills in ceramics. I studied at Alfred University School of Art and Design, where I received my BFA in ceramics. I earned my Masters in Teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). I developed those skills even further as a production potter in Manhattan.
I've been with the Art League of LI for 15+ years. I started out as a student taking the portfolio workshop, taught classes for the Summer Art Adventure in many different mediums, and now teach Ceramics. My work focuses on enhancing the ordinary, using smooth lines to imbue utilitarian objects with a new vibrancy.