Learn the basics of throwing or increase your skill--this 8 week course is the bedrock of our pottery community. Instructors will demostrate different forms and help students through the process of creating work, firing and glazing. Additionally, we work with students to learn and improve handbuilding skills. We are a rare student-centered studio that focuses on cone 9-10 firings.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.

Students will develop basic observational drawing skills in six 2 hour sessions. Students will begin working from a provided still life with intricate manufactured and simple natural objects illuminated from a single light source. Students will be “drawing what they see” as compared to drawing what they think they “know”. Weather permitting, students will step into the courtyard and draw from nature & architecture, selecting a scene that most inspires them. Students will learn to organize visual space using the law of thirds while exploring various ways of making marks on a page which might include hatching, cross hatching, smudging, and scribbling. Each class will begin with a drawing exercise to stretch and relax, while developing fine motor skills.

In order to register for this course you should feel confident in the processes of ceramic creation.

This course is predominately student lead with instructor guidance. Each session has a theme/poem/concept to engage students. Students are encouraged to stretch their skills within the confines of our studio offerings. Often students take this course many times and then leave to create their own independent studio.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.

“Working out of doors your eye will be brought up to color – it has the effect of shaking off the shackles or your mind, showing you that you can do anything you please, making you dare”. Charles Hawthorne

The early 1900 summer art schools of William Merritt Chase (Shinnecock on Long Island) and Charles Hawthorne (Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown MA) taught artists the Impressionist practice of painting plein-air, or in the outdoors, seeing how sunlight effects color. These schools were the influence of many American painters, encouraging them to see the true color of objects in nature.  “Block Studies” and the “Outdoor Still Life” are two teaching tools used to simplify and practice seeing lights effect on color and a way to prepare for the more challenging work of landscape painting.

In this class we will be painting simple still lifes outdoors with oil paints, learning how to see lights effect on color and how to mix and apply paint. We will look at examples of past and present painters who are “capturing the light” in their work.  This is a class for all levels or painters, those who have never painted before to the experienced painter looking to explore something new.

This class skips May 13th

Learn the basics of throwing or increase your skill--this 8 week course is the bedrock of our pottery community. Instructors will demostrate different forms and help students through the process of creating work, firing and glazing. Additionally, we work with students to learn and improve handbuilding skills. We are a rare student-centered studio that focuses on cone 9-10 firings.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.

This course offers painters with a practice to improve their skill through critique and insight. Each week begins with a critique that focuses on light, composition and color and then opens to painting with deep, thoughtful feedback from Stephanie. This course can be taken again and again.

Students bring their own supplies.

This course is located in our cheerful, yellow historic bunkhouse which once housed the individuals who built the railroad tracks.

This course skips May 14th.

If you have never touched clay, please check out our "Beginner Handbuilding" course in order to get an understanding of this medium. This course will continue exploration in the extruder, slab roller and the processes of our studio.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.

Flip a switch and the entire world becomes the world of your imagination. In this course the emphasis is on interacting with the seen world, seeing what YOU see and interacting with it. Develop the process and allow yourself to see what you see AS you draw or paint and build your own personal LANGUAGE that comes out of living in the moment of your creations. It’s not simply about what you want to say but also about what is the work saying? Can you listen to its voice while you are working on it? Whatever materials you bring along for the journey are fair game. This class emphasizes process, experimentation, and the merging of the imagination with the visual world around us. You will build a personalized “mark and color toolbox” through exercises in line, rhythm, pressure, material exploration and more. Over time, you will learn how to trust your instincts, develop visual sensitivity, and cultivate a uniquely personal, meaningful practice..This class is for students who are ready to discover the core of their creativity and ready to develop a truly unique body of work.Open to all levels. Skills for success include curiosity and a willingness to explore.This is a mixed media class: oil, acrylic, wax pencils, oil sticks, pastels, charcoal are some of the possibilities. Painting on paper is encouraged as an affordable way to experiment. Canvas and panel and other materials are acceptable also.