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COURSE NAME: Brush Up Your Wheel Skills II - Beginner to Intermediate

COURSE #: 715
START DATE: 8/05/10
# WKS: 3
DAYS: TH
TIME: 1:00-3:00
FEE: $100.00
MEMBER FEE: $75.00

• LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Beginner-Intermediate

• STRUCTURE OF YOUR CLASSES:
There will be demonstration, discussion and critique.

• SUBJECT MATTER: This is a 3 session of 2 hours each class of brushing up on wheel throwing techniques and skills. There will be an informal discussion of what forms or techniques class participants want to refresh. This will be followed by demonstrations. This will be the format for all 3 sessions. Students will need basic wheel throwing tools (available in gift shop), towel, small bucket, apron, and drycleaner plastic. Each student will receive a half bag of clay. All pieces made in the class will be bisque fired at the end of the final session. Each student may use one hour outside of class time to glaze the pieces made in class and the pieces will be fired. The student will be expected to purchase studio time at the front desk for any work to be done outside of the class. The student may also purchase more clay to work on these skills independently.

• CRITIQUES: There will be a final informative critique.

COURSE NAME: Handbuilding - All Levels

COURSE #: 716
START DATE: 9/07/10
# WKS: 3
DAYS: T
TIME: 1:00-3:00
FEE: $100.00
MEMBER FEE: $75.00

LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Beginners are encouraged to join the class. Experienced students are welcomed back!

STRUCTURE OF YOUR CLASS:
The hand building clay class will introduce beginning students to clay as a basic and plastic material used in creating expressive three dimensional art. Returning students will continue to immerse themselves in the creative and expressive manipulation of clay. There will be demonstration, and discussion.

SUBJECT MATTER: We will explore the methods of working with clay without the wheel: slab, coil, extruded and sometimes pinch construction, and students are encouraged to explore possibilities in the form the students prefers. An exploration of surface treatments and techniques will also be included. The final class will be for the glazing of the completed bisques pieces.

• CRITIQUES: A final informal critique will be given.

INSTRUCTOR: HOWE
• INSTRUCTORS BIO:
I began working in clay in 1968, the year I graduated with a BFA degree from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. I studied pottery and glaze chemistry for 2 years at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. I was a founding partner of the 78th Street Pottery in 1972 on the upper west side of Manhattan, where we taught 100 students per week. In 1975, I went to Ibiza, an island in Spain and built a wheel and kiln and traveled. My experiences in far off places influenced my re-thinking of the value of clay. In India travelers toss their clay cups from the trains. The tracks are littered with shards. Returning home, I worked for tradition North Carolina potters in Seagrove, earning price per piece. I earned my MFA degree in 1986 and was off again to South Korea as a Fulbright Scholar. My purpose was to combine the influence of Asian form and technique with a European tradition of functional pottery. I have held one-woman exhibitions and have been included in many invitational shows and fine art fairs. I have taught ceramics and art history at the university level, art center classes for adults, children, home-schoolers and others, as well as public school elementary and middle school art. “I have a way with clay. I am better with clay than I am with people. I love the way clay responds to my touch when I am in harmony with the material and the making. Working in clay, for me, is a ritual.”