Private Lessons

Come try out a new pottery tool! Use the extruder as the jumping off point for making an imaginary creature. Work will be available for pickup or shipping two to three weeks after class.

Suitable for ages 6 and up. 

This immersive workshop introduces participants to essential handbuilding techniques: slab, coil, and bisque molds, while offering an opportunity to load, fire, and finish work in The Bascom’s soda kiln. Students will create functional forms in stoneware and may also bring pre-bisque fired cone 10 stoneware or porcelain pieces to glaze, decorate, and fire. Instruction will cover glazing methods, the use of flashing slips, kiln loading, and the firing process, with participants actively involved in soda introduction and kiln management. The final session includes unloading and discussion of results, along with an exploration of soda kiln design for those interested.

This class is for students who have bisque pieces ready to glaze.  These pieces could have been made in Open Studio, the Resident Artist Series, Workshops, etc.  

Try out the pottery wheel to make small things. Student work will be available for pickup or shipping two to three weeks after class.

Ages:

10-18

In this immersive three-day workshop, Natasha Dikareva guides participants through the creation of mythic totems and fantastical ceramic figures that draw on mythology, contemporary culture, and imaginative storytelling. Through demonstrations and hands-on practice, participants will explore clay hand-building techniques for constructing dynamic figurative and totemic forms, with an emphasis on narrative, proportion, gesture, and texture.

In this 5 day wheel throwing class, we will focus on making tableware such as plates, small and large bowls, candle holders, salt and pepper shakers, pitchers, etc.  This class includes Open Studio only on the day of class.  There will not be a glazing component to this class.  Please see Glazing Class in the Resident Artist Series Schedule.

You will have time to work on 4 or more leather projects depending on size and complexity. Choices for your projects can be from the following: Make a leather shoulder bag or two, make a tote, learn how to use a wood burning tool to inscribe a design onto the leather and then colorize it. With your first bag all done on Day One you can make some accessories for days two and three, such as a leather belt, phone pouch, key fobs, “magic braid” bracelets, and other smaller projects…OR…you can make another bag such as a Fringe Bag, portfolio, etc.! 

This class is for students who have bisque pieces ready to glaze.  These pieces could have been made in Open Studio, the Resident Artist Series, Workshops, etc.  

Make your own customized toad abode for all your amphibious friends. Student work will be available for pickup or shipping two to three weeks after class.

Suitable for ages 6 and up.