Ceramics: Wheel Throwing for Beginners
Adult Class | This program is completed
What makes a ceramic pot useful? What makes it beautiful to you? What makes a pot a “good” pot? This course will teach beginning wheel throwing and ceramic glazing skills by exploring these questions. We will cover the entire process of making functional wheel thrown pots, including design ideation, throwing, trimming, making handles, and surface decoration. We will also view images of pottery ancient to modern, and explore our own home ceramic collections. Focusing on craft, material sensitivity, and identifying personal taste, students will work on attainable forms to build new skills rapidly. This class is designed for complete beginners but intermediate potters will find it helpful as well.
What you will learn:
1. To throw a variety of small forms (cylinders, bowls, closed forms for more advanced students) on the wheel
2. To create functional finished pots using trimming, handle-making, additive and reductive decoration, and glazing techniques
3. To articulate their personal taste and vision, and use this to plan and execute pots they will enjoy using
This is a 9-session course. Fleisher will be closed on Monday, September 25 and Monday, October 9.
- • Clay is included in your registration - no outside clay is permitted
• Basic pottery tool kit: cutting wire, sponge, wooden knife, needle tool, wooden rib, metal rib, large and small trimming loops
• Sketchbook and drawing tool
• One or more small towels (dish size is good)
• Clothes and shoes you are comfortable getting dirty
• Apron (optional)
• Hand lotion/salve (optional but recommended)
• If you get dry cleaning, bring the thin plastic cover they return clothes with