Description
Designed for beginning students.
This 6 week class is specifically designed for learning the basics of wheel throwing. You may be entirely new to clay and the wheel or returning to it after a little experience in the past. We will be learning to wedge clay, center, form pots, and finish your wares with trimming and glazes. Be aware that learning to center takes some commitment on your part as it takes time and patience but once you get it, you’ll be making pots!
Bring an apron and a towel. This is a messy process that is not for the faint-hearted!
Ann Gleason had been a professional potter and part time teacher of clay for over 30 years in the upstate Carolina area. Working in many varieties and techniques of clay from earthen-wares to porcelains, low fire to high, raku, primitive firings, gas firings, and electric, her explorations in the medium have evolved in many ways over the decades. “Clay is an immensely diverse material that can be made to do almost anything when in skilled and creative hands.” says Gleason “The fascination is that this very tactile and physical medium offers infinite directions a person can go with it. The other side of this is that you have to restrain yourself from scattering in too many directions at once but learn to focus and develop select techniques and ideas first. When I teach clay classes, the projects are designed to encourage the student to build on the techniques and ideas needed to learn and grow.
