This course is an introduction to sculpting clay using hand building processes. Pinch, coil, slab, and combination approaches to working with clay are used as the basis for creating a variety of forms. This course is intended for ages ranging from middle school to adult; emphasis is placed on personal development regardless of starting ability. Each class provides process demonstrations and individualized direction.

Explore the versatility of modeling clay to create inventive or traditional sculpture. Learn sculpting techniques and the use of tools and finishes through demonstrations and hands-on projects. Work from imagination, drawings, or photographs for inspiration. As in all classes, the instructor provides individual guidance and support for each student to realize their artistic vision.

Learn the fundamentals of pottery. Explore hand building techniques as well as the use of a potter's wheel to create decorative and functional objects such as bowls, platters, plates, and cups, or sculptural pieces. Discover a variety of ways to enhance your form using glazes, underglazes, sgraffito, and clay slips

Explore hand building techniques as well as the use of a potter's wheel to create decorative and functional objects such as bowls, platters, plates, and cups, or sculptural pieces. Further enhance your skills with glazes, underglazes, sgraffito, and clay slips.

Learn how to express the figure through observing the nude model and understanding human anatomy. Emphasis on proportion, gesture, texture, and practicing traditional modelling in clay.

Learn how to sculpt the human head in clay direct from a live model with one pose for the whole session. Produce a finished piece, suitable for ceramic firing.

Learn the basics with an emphasis on centering, trimming, additions, and glazing using the wheel. Create mugs, bowls, plates, and more.

Develop your wheel skills by learning how to alter the basic thrown forms - cylinders become pitchers with handles, bowls transform into colanders with feet and handles.

Drawing from observation, learn the traditional and contemporary methods of depicting three-dimensional space, textures, patterns, and hyper realistic details. Using the rules of linear and atmospheric perspective, create still lifes, landscapes, and figure drawings. Composition, light, tonal value, spatial relationships, perspective, and design principles are explored. A model will be present for the last two sessions.