Students will explore surface texturing and practice soldering while creating a pair of silver stud earrings from silver discs. Using hammers, stamps, and other tools, students will develop texture on the surface before soldering earring posts and finishing their earrings. Beginners will be guided step by step, while students with prior experience may explore additional surface treatments as time allows. This is a beginner friendly class!

Use a pinhole camera to shoot and then develop photos in our brand new dark room!

Maintenance and care of your tools is an essential skill for any woodworker. Keeping your tools sharp not only helps to improve the quality of your work, but it also promotes safety, longevity,and cost effectiveness.In this course students will be instructed on the different methods of tool sharpening andspecificities in sharpening requirements of individual tools. Additionally students are encouraged to bring in their own tools and sharpening implements for instructor led sharpening.

Participants will learn the art of needle felting and create a three-dimensional wool sculpture of an owl using a special barbed needle. Instruction will be hands-on and will include demonstrations.

Students between the ages of 9 and 12 are welcome to enroll with an adult.

Materials: Included

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.

***Barbara Murphy is taking a sabbatical for Oct/Nov pottery session. In her place will be Kileh Friedman whose fantastic work can be found here: https://kilehfriedmanpottery.com

Learn how to make your own prints and then use them on a variety of types of fabrics and papers. Children will go home with multiple print projects.