Description
Designed for intermediate to advanced students.
Students with some hand-building or clay experience will be learning to make well-crafted and creative functional wares such as: dinner wares, bakers, platters, plates, butter dishes, lamp bases, soap dishes, lidded jars, vases, teapots. We will also cover altering basic forms, using ready made forms, and making slump and hump molds. There will be suggested projects at the beginning, with students’ preferences or ideas being explored as we advance.
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.
