This six-week class introduces figure sculpture through hands-on ceramic projects that explore the human form. We’ll begin with a small hanging portrait to learn facial construction and build comfort with the material. From there, students will create a small, full-bodied figure using coil-building techniques, with demos on proportion, gesture, and detail. The class ends with surface treatments—either glazing or cold finishing—to bring each piece to life.

6-Week Schedule

Week 1 – Pinch Pot Hanging Heads

Intro to facial sculpting. Students make a small hanging head to get comfortable with clay and show their working style.

Week 2 – Begin Big Project: Coil-Built Figure (Body + Legs)

Demo on coil-building torsos and legs. Students begin their full-body sculptures.

Week 3 – Continue Big Project: Arms, Head + Details

Demos on arms, head construction, and refining facial features and gestures.

Week 4 – Workday + Final Builds

Work session with optional demos. Goal: finish construction and begin controlled drying.

Week 5 – Drying & Optional Bonus Project

Place figures on the bisque shelf for a slow, monitored fire. Optional project: body-part cup (ear cup, nose vase, etc.) or a glaze/cold-surface demo.

Week 6 – Surface Treatments

Students choose between glazing or cold finishing (e.g. watercolor + wax) and finalize their work.

Students will learn basic rules of artistic landscape design in the impressionist style to unlock the power of the their own independent artistic expression, translating from landscape images. They will learn composition, blocking in shapes, color, and value to create visual interest. In addition, they will learn the beginnings of how to develop their own artistic process and intuition. In addition, they will have the opportunity to learn problem solving and expand their capacity to work on multiple pieces at once. This is a beginner friendly course. 

Course Breakdown

Week1: Composition and Blocking in Shapes (thumbnails)

Week 2: Color and Tone (thumbnails)

Week 3: Larger sketches combining first two weeks of learning

Week 4: Warm up with larger sketches combining first two weeks of learning. Begin work on final project. 

Week 5: Continue work on final project. 

Week 6: Complete final work. 

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing Porcelain? Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls! Master Potter, John Bailey teaches through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try the challenge of Porcelain, this is a great class too! If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Beginning Watercolor 

Explore the vibrant world of watercolor, learning key techniques like wet-on-wet, dry brushing, and expert color mixing. Perfect for beginners and those looking to refine their skills, this class provides hands-on guidance to help you build confidence with every brushstroke. Dive into the medium and create stunning effects while gaining a deeper understanding of watercolor’s unique qualities.

Creative Scrappy Stuffies, 6 week course 

Anyone with a basic knowledge of using sewing machines may take the class. Students will learn a number of techniques to construct one or more stuffies, beginning with a scrappy owl. As owls are finished, students may choose from additional projects such as mermaids, sea serpents, and one-of-a-kind dolls with mix and match body parts patterns 

Over six weeks, resident artist Chrystal will guide you through the finer points of pottery design — handles, lids, and spouts. Learn how to craft functional forms that fit seamlessly with your pieces while adding character and style. Perfect for hobby potters ready to level up their skills

This class will introduce students to sand casting, in a miniature bench top setting! Sand casting is usually considered an industrial technique of metal casting, but it can actually be quite accessible and fun for artists. Although it is not as refined as lost wax (investment) casting, sand casting has the major advantage of being fast and cheap with all materials being recycled and no waiting time for making the molds. Each student will make small castings out of aluminum and bronze. We will cover some basics of pattern making and what makes a good pattern, and we will experiment with carving molds directly in the sand. At the end of the class, students will have the understanding and a list of where to get materials and tools to set up their own small (or not so small) sand foundry.

In this class we will explore different ways to make interesting and exciting linoleum prints! I willbe teaching the basics of linoleum printmaking including the use of the tools, materials, and presses! This class is going to be very Freeform and fun, I want everyone to enjoy their time and produce artwork you can be proud of. I will also be showing how to use other mediums such as paint, colored pencil, and fabric.

For this class I recommend bringing your ownsketchbook and carving tools if you have them, if not they will be provided!

6 week plan

Week 1- Basics of printing: We will learn how to use the tools of printmaking safely and efficiently to make an amazingartwork. We will be making a small linoleum carving of something involving texture. This is prettyfree form and you can do pretty much anything with this!

Week 2- How to print using a press: We will be learning how to prepare, ink, and print our first linoleum carving from the previousweek. We will also be talking about and planning our next print.

Week 3- We will be making a larger print of something that inspires us. This can be a person,place, thing, or pretty much anything that you draw inspiration from in life or in your art. We willalso be talking about how to enhance our previous prints with the use of colored pencils or paintand emphasis on specific parts of the print using color.

Week 4- This will be one of the most fun classes as we will be printing our previous prints onshirts, totes, or any other kind of other materials you want to bring in! You can do this in color inkor in black ink! This is one of my personal favorite things to do with my prints and I love to wearmy artwork!

Week 5- This week we will be doing a more advanced kind of print involving the use of multipleink colors. You will slowly carve away the different layers of your print with the goal of usingthree different colors! This will be a completely free subject print where you can make whateveryou want and I will simply be around to help out, give tips, and advice when needed.

Week 6- We will finish up the last of our prints and have fun while we work! This day will mostlybe dedicated to printing with the press and using other materials to spice up the prints that youwant to! You will also collect the prints that are dry and ready to take home!