Handbuilding:

In the handbuilding class I teach basic skills, such as pinch potting, coiling, scoring/slipping and rolling slabs, enabling the student to form the clay into their vision. I give ideas and show examples of things one might try making, such as textured tiles (using improvized tools like real plants or rubber lizards), animal sculptures, faces, butter dishes, soap dishes, chess pieces, etc.

Students tend to try out a few things, then quickly become inspired to create their own ideas. I give them the freedom to try whatever they want, while guiding them with suggestions on how to make the final piece hold together. My enthusiasm is genuine in that I am just as inspired by the ideas that the students come up with as they are by mine (probably more so). This kind of enthusiasm tends to be infectious and self-perpetuating.

Students glaze their own work and then their work is fired. All ages are welcome. Classes average around four students. Instructor: Leonie Daniels. $100 per student, plus clay; $125 for parent/child together, plus clay.

Six Tuesdays starting November 24, 3:00-4:30