Community Creative Center

Handbuilding in Clay

This ceramics class is perfect for beginners who want to learn to create bowls, dishes, vases, tiles and sculptures without the use of the potter’s wheel. Experienced potters are also welcome. We will create basic but fun forms using the building methods of pinch, coil and slab and additional techniques will be demonstrated to add a personal touch to your work by using sculpting, alteration, stencils, painting, slip, stains, sgraffito, and inlay. Subject matter will be student directed with instructor guidance.

Many of the student projects will be self directed but these will contain hollow forms (pinch method), coil methods, and slab methods including slump, drape and tar paper slab building method.