Creating with Clay Programs

By creating with clay, we seek to nurture the potential and confidence of each student. Our classroom atmosphere fosters respect for each individual and a cooperative spirit within each group.

We use stoneware clays with lead-free slips and glazes.  Students are encouraged to create from their own imaginations, to develop a variety of hand building skills, to use the potter's wheel, and to use a variety of methods to decorate their pieces.  

Students may build vessels or scenes with slabs and coils; throw cups, bowls, or plates on the wheel; build a lamp, a clock or a mirror frame; create patterns with colored clays; create sculpture.  

By working with clay, students learn about forming, firing, glazing and the vocabulary of ceramics while simultaneously gaining visual, perceptual, problem-solving, and motor skills. They take pride in their creations.

Classes offered
*After school (3:30-5:00) weekly classes for students 6 and older in the fall, winter, and spring.

* Weekly classes (12:30 to 2:30 pm) for home schooled students 6 and older in the fall winter, and spring.

* Saturday mornings--classes for parents and children (ages 6-9) together in three-week sessions on in the fall and winter or during the summer.  

* Saturday afternoons --classes for students 10 and older in three-week sessions in the fall and winter.

* Two-week summer sessions-- each includes morning classes for children 6 to 9 years old, and afternoon classes for various older age groups.

*Adult class meets one evening a week in the fall, winter and summer.