Pottery and Ceramics for Adults

Course Days and Times:

Monday  

TBD

Time Options

5:30- 7:30PM *OPEN to Returning & Intermediate Students ONLY 

7:30- 9:30PM *OPEN to Beginner and Intermediate Students 

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Tuesday 

TBD

Time Options

5:30-7:30PM *OPEN to Beginner and Intermediate Students

7:30- 9:30PM *OPEN to Beginner and Intermediate Students

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Wednesday  

TBD

Time 6-8 PM *OPEN to Beginner and Intermediate Students

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Thursday 

TBD

Time 7:15 - 9:15PM *OPEN to Beginner and Intermediate Students

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Saturday 

TBD

Time 1-3PM *OPEN to Beginner and Intermediate Students

Beginner Pottery & Ceramics for Adults

This course is for students of all experience levels and will focus on understanding and applying the aesthetics, processes, form, and function of the ceramics art form. Students will learn many of the following skills: handbuilding (pinch, coil, slab), wheelwork (centering, pulling, shaping, attachments, cylinder and bowl forms), glazing, and sculptural (additive, subtractive, positive, negative methods). At minimum, wheel access will be split during each class; each student will have half of the class time of designated wheel access per session. During the adult sessions while students are not accessing the wheel we provide various handbuilding projects and lessons each week. The last two weeks of the course is focused only on trimming and glazing. 

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Intermediate Pottery & Ceramics for Adults

This course will focus on advancing wheel work, handbuilding skills, glazing and decorative techniques. This class will allow the option for students to choose to focus on one area either handbuilding or wheelwork. 

Additional Information about the Courses

ABSENCES

These 6-week courses will run within a 8-week flexible time frame of your choice from the time of your first class. Basically, you will pay for and attend 6 classes, but it is up to you what days to come within an eight-week period. We wanted to allow flexibility so adults can attend, but also be able to miss a class when needed. If you happen to have no absences and make it to 8 classes, that's fine too, but we won't let you make up classes unless you miss two or more classes.

MATERIALS

Most materials such as clay and basic low fire glaze will be provided with the cost of the course as well as tools. We provide earthenware clay  (up to 25 lbs per student and basic low fire glazes, if students want more than 25 pounds of clay or a specific type of glaze that isn’t provided at STAC they may choose to purchase it for extra when we have it in stock, otherwise we can recommend a vendor. We fire at cone 05. 

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SCHEDULE

Although there are many days and times to choose from, once you choose one day and time, you can not switch to another one. For example if you choose to register for Tuesday at 7:30, you can not switch to Thursday 7:15-9:15 or any other day/ time unless under special circumstances, there is room in the preferred class, or permission from faculty.

RETURN/ REFUND POLICY

Classes are nonrefundable unless it is canceled 3 weeks prior to the start of the first class. Classes that do not meet the minimum requirement of participants to run will be fully refunded. You must register and pay to reserve a spot in the course. 

ABANDONED ARTWORK POLICY

If artwork is left or abandoned for 30 days or more after the last day of the class session it will be discarded or recycled. 

SNOW DAYS/ EMERGENCY DAYS

We will cancel classes during declared weather emergencies. We will post the cancellations on our website, facebook page, and will send an email. When classes are cancelled due to an event, we will make that class up the following week. Please note, this make up class may effect the start day of the following session.