3038: CERAMICS OPEN STUDIO
Instructor: none

CERAMICS OPEN STUDIO enables students to practice techniques and pursue individual skill development.  All tools and equipment in  studio are made available.  However, no instruction is provided.  Open Studio is included in the course fees for currently  enrolled ceramics students.  Previous students may enroll in Open Studio by the month.  The monthly fee includes 25 pounds of clay, firing fees and the use of all glazes and underglazes.  Please note:  Open Studio times are subject to change. 
*Tuesday, 9am-noon, and 4:30-6pm
*Thursday, 4:30-6pm
*Sundays, noon-6pm, ongoing and other times as scheduled (see front of Ceramic Studio for schedule). 
*Cards can be purchased for a month's use of the studio for $67.  Please register at The ArtsCenter front desk.

Price: $67
Friend Price: $67
ongoing, Tuesday, 9am-noon, and 4:30-6pm Thursday, 4:30-6pm and Sundays, noon-6pm

3039: INSPIRATIONAL HANDBUILDING
Instructor: Toby Luria
Toby Luria's bio

For those who want to experience a wide scope of methods for creating with clay. Thorough instructions will be presented to allow the student to gain a depth of understanding that will provide the confidence and techniques independently to create whatever form is desired.  The class will include methods for pinch pots, coiling, slab forms, paddling, as well as decorating with impressions, slips, and a variety of glaze techniques.  The concentration will be on creatively inspired bowls, vases, and masks, but the student is encouraged to bring their own special projects to the class. Pieces will be both functional and decorative.

*Tuition includes materials fees.

Price: $208
Friend Price: $190
Saturday, 10am-1pm, June 6-July 25 (no class July 4)

3040: WHEELTHROWING
Instructor: Jessica Sandford, Susan Wells & James Ward
Jessica Sandford's bio; Susan Wells' bio; James Ward's bio

These introductory wheelthrowing classes are open to both beginning and advanced/beginner students.  Beginners will learn to center the clay and throw basic utilitarian forms.  More advanced students will improve their throwing skills, enabling them to work with larger amounts of clay and creating more complex, assembled pieces.  All students will learn to work with glazes and other decorating methods that will result in lovely functional pieces of pottery.

*Tuition includes materials fees.

Price: see below
Friend Price: see below
(Wells): Monday, 9-11:30am, June 8-July 20 (7 weeks) $172 public, $164 Friends
(Wells): Monday, 6-8:30pm, June 8-July 20 (7 weeks) $172 public, $164 Friends
(Ward): Tuesday, 6:30-9pm, June 9-July 21 (7 weeks) $172 public, $164 Friends
(Sandford): Thursday, 6:30-9pm, June 11-July 16 (6 weeks) $154 public, $142 Friends
(Sandford): Thursday, 6:30-9pm, July 23-August 27 (6 weeks) $154 public, $142 Friends

3041: BASIC GLAZE CHEMISTRY
Instructor: Ronan Kyle Peterson
Ronan Kyle Peterson's bio

This class will focus on the basics of mixing and firing glazes. We will look at some aspects of glaze chemistry, how to read glaze recipes and properties of the materials used to make up glazes. We will make test tiles to test glazes that we will mix up during the class, and if time allows, students will be able to test some glazes on vessels made during the class. Instruction will include using different types of glaze scales and tools needed for mixing glazes. We will focus on cone 6 clays and glazes fired in oxidation, but the information learned can be applied to both earthenware and higher firing temperatures. This class is intended to enable students to read glaze recipes, to be comfortable mixing glazes, to learn some basic properties of glaze chemicals and to be aware of safety concerns when handling and firing glaze chemicals.

Optional recommended reading before and during class is John Britt's High Fire Glazes, from Lark Books.

This class is an intermediate class, and students should have taken at least one ceramics class prior to registering for it.

*Tuition includes materials fees.

Price: $133
Friend Price: $124
Wednesday, 6:30-9pm, June 10-July 8 (5 weeks)

3042: SURFACE EMBELLISHMENT
Instructor: Ronan Kyle Peterson
Ronan Kyle Peterson's bio

This short class is devoted to the adornment and embellishment of ceramic vessels. We will explore using slips, underglazes, slip trailing, sgraffito, slip inlay and different types of resists to enhance the surface of our ceramic vessels. Demonstrations will also include glaze layering, surface interactions, and treatment of bisqued wares. Students should be open to experimentation and have at least completed a beginning wheel or introduction to handbuilding class. Students should bring at least 4 leatherhard objects/vessels to the first night of class.

*Tuition includes materials fees.

Price: $115
Friend Price: $107
Wednesday, 6:30-9pm, July 29-August 19 (4 weeks)