Join us on Tuesday evenings for an 8-week pottery class focusing on surface design and decoration with glaze. Beginning through advanced students will have opportunities to create both wheel-thrown and hand-built work, with a focus on surface experimentation.
Full Course Description:
People have been decorating ceramics as long as they have been making them. This course is designed to allow students to develop their skills in decorative glazing, primarily using a majolica-style technique on earthenware tiles. An emphasis will be made on experimentation with mixing and layering different colored glazes or underglazes. As we look back through 20,000 years of ceramic art history to discover the different ways people have been adorning their work, design topics will range from patterns to the representational, to pictographs, text and the purely abstract. With a heavy focus on encouraging students’ curiosity and examination of the world around them, students will be asked to bring in a reference or bit of inspiration they found each week for a brief show-and-tell at the beginning of each meeting.
Students will be provided with earthenware tiles and low-fire glazes to work with over the 8-week period, but the concepts covered are applicable to all kinds of ceramic ware, so they are welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze as well. After a few weeks of experimentation and familiarization with the materials, students will embark on a main project of their choosing for the remainder of the course, which can be anything such as a framed tile mosaic, an individual set of tiles, or a pot or sculpture the student has brought in of their own.
All experience levels are welcome.
Financial aid packages are available: APPLY
Join us on Tuesday evenings for an 8-week pottery class focusing on surface design and decoration with glaze. Beginning through advanced students will have opportunities to create both wheel-thrown and hand-built work, with a focus on surface experimentation.
Full Course Description:
People have been decorating ceramics as long as they have been making them. This course is designed to allow students to develop their skills in decorative glazing, primarily using a majolica-style technique on earthenware tiles. An emphasis will be made on experimentation with mixing and layering different colored glazes or underglazes. As we look back through 20,000 years of ceramic art history to discover the different ways people have been adorning their work, design topics will range from patterns to the representational, to pictographs, text and the purely abstract. With a heavy focus on encouraging students’ curiosity and examination of the world around them, students will be asked to bring in a reference or bit of inspiration they found each week for a brief show-and-tell at the beginning of each meeting.
Students will be provided with earthenware tiles and low-fire glazes to work with over the 8-week period, but the concepts covered are applicable to all kinds of ceramic ware, so they are welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze as well. After a few weeks of experimentation and familiarization with the materials, students will embark on a main project of their choosing for the remainder of the course, which can be anything such as a framed tile mosaic, an individual set of tiles, or a pot or sculpture the student has brought in of their own.
All experience levels are welcome.
Financial aid packages are available: APPLY
