Clay Studio

INTRO TO WHEEL THROWING

Wednesday Nights: 6:00-9:00pm

10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20

In this 6-week course, you will learn how to craft clay vessels in various forms using the pottery wheel. Students will have a chance to try all aspects of the process, from preparing the clay to refining their form. Our main focus will be on building skills in the throwing process. We will also have a chance to briefly explore surfacing, firing, and finishing work.

These classes have plenty of guidance for beginners, making them ideal if you have little to no experience with clay and want to test your interest and grow your skills.

If you have worked with clay in the past and feel comfortable on the wheel with little additional guidance, please register for Studio Time: Wheel Throwing on Monday evenings.

AGE: 18+

COST: $275 Non-Member / $248 Artistry Member/Subscriber (plus $1 processing fee)

LOCATION: Clay Studio at the Bloomington Center for the Arts

INSTRUCTOR: Samantha McCluskey

INTRO TO HAND BUILDING

Monday Nights: 6:00-9:00pm

10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25

In this 6-week course, get your hands into clay and focus on the basic techniques for crafting hand-built objects. You will experience the joy of shaping and refining malleable materials into durable, everlasting objects of beauty, expression, and purpose. Our focus will be on testing the limits of our creativity through basic clay hand building techniques. We will also discuss surfacing, texturing, and refining to suit your creative vision.

These classes have plenty of guidance for beginners, making them ideal if you have little to no experience with clay and want to test your interest and grow your skills.

If you have worked with clay in the past and feel comfortable hand building with little additional guidance, please register for Studio Time: Hand Building on Wednesday evenings

AGE: 18+

COST: $275 Non-Member / $248 Artistry Member/Subscriber (plus $1 processing fee)

LOCATION: Clay Studio at the Bloomington Center for the Arts

INSTRUCTOR: Samantha McCluskey

STUDIO TIME: hand building

Wednesday Nights: 6:00-9:00pm

10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20

This 6 week session is an open studio format for clay lovers, artists, and aficionados who feel comfortable working independently in our studio space.

This session is recommended for folks who have worked with clay in the past, feel comfortable crafting with little additional guidance and wish to focus primarily on handbuilding; extremely limited wheel access may be available, but is not guaranteed.

A facilitator will be on hand to consult, guide, or recommend, as requested, and to help maintain and uphold established norms for working in the space.

For this session, our studio offers access for firing up to Cone 6. Your session fee includes all firing and glaze for one 25 lb bag of pugged reclaimed stoneware clay. Additional bags of clay may be purchased as desired for $20 (plus taxes), which will include firing and glazes. Outside glazes and clay bodies cannot be fired in our shop at this time.

AGE: 18+

COST: $200 Non-Member / $180 Artistry Member/Subscriber (plus $1 processing fee)

LOCATION: Clay Studio at the Bloomington Center for the Arts

INSTRUCTOR: Samantha McCluskey