Ceramics: Wheel Throwing (Wednesday)
Adult Class | This program is completed
Come and learn to make earthenware pottery and vessels. This class is based strongly on finding out your individual needs, as every student comes in with different ideas about what they want to make. The class will encourage students to challenge themselves by stepping out of their comfort zone, by trying new techniques and reminding them that the best way to try something new is to treat it like play; bring your humility to class and you’ll learn a lot more and have much more fun!
What you will learn:
1. Basics of wheel throwing
2. Ceramic hand-building techniques
3. Advanced surface treatment with slips and glazes
Firing Schedule: All work should be placed on the bisque firing shelf by Friday, February 28, and on the glaze firing shelf by Friday, March 7 to guarantee it will be fired by the last week of classes. Students can continue to drop off work for glaze firing until Friday, March 14. Finished work can be picked up during operational hours between terms. Questions about the firing schedule can be directed to Scott Cooper, Studio Technician at scooper@fleisher.org.
All artwork and supplies must be removed from Fleisher’s Ceramics Studio shelving by Friday, March 14 unless registered for a Ceramics class during the upcoming Spring 2025.
Start the term with these supplies:
• Your first bag of clay is included in your registration - no outside clay is permitted. Additional clay can be purchased at the front desk.
• Basic clay tool kit (rib, cut off wire, pin tool, small sponge, loop trimming tool)
• Cloth hand towel and apron
Midway through the term students will need these supplies:
• 1” and 2” inch hake brush
• Personal supply of decorating tools
• Various carving tools
Isaac Scott
Isaac Scott is a multimedia artist who aims to reflect, absorb, and reinterpret the world around him. Working in photography, painting, and ceramics, his work is rooted in observation. In 2020, he documented Black Lives Matter activism in Philadelphia and around the country following the murder of George Floyd by police. His photographs were published in New Yorker Magazine. Taking that experience and knowledge, he pushes his artwork forward in an effort to create, as Scott states, “a monument that reflects the voices, emotions, and experiences of his environment”. His ceramic sculptures contain a similar resonance as the photography, but are entirely abstract. They take familiar forms such as a chalice or a column in order to establish cultural parallels, and elevate the everyday to the level of history.
https://www.isaacspottery.com/