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Kid's Wheel & Handbuilding

$325

with Sarah Noel

Calendar Sep 30, 2026 at 2 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Ages: 9 - 13

Is your child interested in learning to sculpt and make amazing things in clay? Join us in our historic Clay and Bunkhouse studios where we have been teaching the joy and art of ceramics for over 70 years. Our students learn the foundations of wheel throwing as well as in hand-building. Through fun imaginative projects that are designed to foster creativity and problem-solving, students will learn how to center, cone, trim, slab build, glaze and prepare pieces for final firings. Our instructors are knowledgeable and cultivate a lively, light hearted, and positive classroom atmosphere.

 

Full Course

Kid's Woodworking with STEM

$325

with Mike Scully

Calendar Sep 30, 2026 at 2 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Ages: 9 - 13

Does your child enjoy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics? Are they looking for a space to be creative in these fields? In this first of its kind class at SCS, join woodworking teacher, Mike Scully to combine these principles with woodworking. This course can be taken again and again. Theme: Gears

 

Full Course

Abstract Painting

$325

with Tom Wright

Calendar Sep 30, 2026 at 6 pm

Flip a switch and the entire world becomes the world of your imagination. Bring painting materials along for the journey and you are on your way to developing and refining a truly unique body of work.

This dynamic painting class invites students to “flip the switch” and explore authentic expression by responding intuitively to visual stimuli with a variety of media. Students will learn to see with curiosity, whether seeking purely abstract or more representational outcomes.

Rather than focusing on traditional rendering techniques, this course emphasizes process, experimentation, and the merging of the imagination with the visual world around us. Students will build a personalized “mark-making toolbox” through exercises in line, rhythm, pressure, scumbling, material exploration and more. Over time, they will learn how to trust their instincts, develop visual sensitivity, and cultivate a uniquely personal, embodied creative practice with endless, increasingly meaningful, possibilities.

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 is perfectly acceptable also.

Beginner Mixed Throwing

$475

with Claire Graybuck

Calendar Sep 30, 2026 at 6 pm, runs for 8 weeks

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.

Full Course

Mixed Level Handbuilding

$475

with Willow Stein

Calendar Oct 1, 2026 at 10 am, runs for 8 weeks

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.

Full Course

Children's Handbuilding

$325

with Diana Haghighat

Calendar Oct 1, 2026 at 3 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Ages: 5 - 8

Do you have a child that enjoys getting their hands dirty? Imagine your child getting to play with clay while learning the foundation of hand-building. In this mixed level afterschool courses, students 5-8 years old, learn about making slabs, hand coiling, pinching, texturing, and glazing. Each session begins with a project that children then customize into a unique, whimsical and colorful memory to bring home at the end of the season. Students will have the opportunity to make a variety of projects such as mugs, animals, ugly jugs, flower planters, syrup pitchers, gnome homes and more.

Full Course

Children's Woodworking

$325

with Shelby Statton

Calendar Oct 1, 2026 at 3 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Ages: 5 - 8

Do you have a child that likes to create objects out of wood? This course, designed for our youngest members (5-8 year olds), will allow children to create their very own handmade wooden project over the course of a 6 week period.We teach how to make a different project each season so students often sign up for this course again and again throughout the year.

 

Full Course

Kid's Recycled Fashion

$285

with Max Strothers-Henry

Calendar Oct 1, 2026 at 3 pm, runs for 6 weeks

Ages: 9 - 13

Design and create wild, fun recycled fashion.

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