Studio School Adult Classes

MON / OCT 28 - DEC 9, 2024 / 6 - 9 PM
$175 / $160 Museum Members

Are you new to the world of pottery? Are you a potter in love with hand building? Join Pam Hart and explore the three major hand building methods: pinch pot, coil, and slab using a project-based approach. Hand building helps students to understand the properties of clay and learn skills all potters need. Every session introduces NEW projects that will allow students to explore making both functional and artistic work. Experienced potters can build on their own work with instructor support. All students are expected to purchase clay from the Center for $40.

Location / Carriage House Hall (directions to be emailed closer to class start date.)
Instructor Pam Hart / Beginners & Intermediate

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TUE / OCT 29 - DEC 10, 2024 / 6 - 9 PM
$175 / $160 Museum Members

Now that you’ve developed your hand building ceramics skills, you may ask yourself, what’s next? Beginner Wheel is for you! Mike will leverage your hand building skills and break down the basic small steps to teach you how to throw on the potter’s wheel with control and confidence. You’ll be applying your new skills in sequence to make cylinders, bowls, and plates while being actively vulnerable, learning from mistakes, and having a lot of fun along in this journey! All students are expected to purchase clay from the Center for $40.

Location / Carriage House Hall (directions to be emailed closer to class start date.)
Instructor Mike Zureich / Intermediate

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THU / OCT 31 - DEC 12, 2024 / 6 - 9 PM
$175 / $160 Museum Members

This semester we will focus on how to improve your wheel skills by throwing matching sets of two! Just for fun, each session will begin with a mini challenge! So far, we have learned how to throw cylinders, mugs, bowls, plates, and vases. Now, let’s set our pointer’s and begin to make equally sized pieces finishing them out with glaze and surface design. Individual goals, sketchbook, and glaze journals will be discussed. Demonstrations and one-on-one assistance will be offered throughout the course. All projects and “just for fun” class challenges are optional. All students are expected to purchase clay from the Center for $40.

Location / Carriage House Hall (directions to be emailed closer to class start date.)
Instructor Becca Waltz / Intermediate & Advanced

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THU / OCT 31 - DEC 12, 2024 / 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
$175 / $160 Museum Members

Now that you have learned the basic forms and techniques, let’s have fun with them! In this class we are going DEEP—by exploring advanced forms, surface techniques, and a bit of sculpture. In addition, we will stretch our minds to think more broadly in the realm of aesthetics and how to create a cohesive body of work around a single theme. Come join us for an adventure as we dive deeper into the vast world of ceramic possibilities. All students are expected to purchase clay from the Center for $40.

Location / Carriage House Hall (directions to be emailed closer to class start date.)
Instructor Beth Nova / Advanced

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This hand-fabricated jewelry class offers a wonderful opportunity to explore the versatility & endless possibilities of manipulating precious metals & gemstones into objects of adornment. Students will learn fundamental jewelry manufacturing techniques while working in gold & silver, as well as essential geological information about gemstones & how they should be cared for during the manufacturing process. Students must purchase all raw materials.

Location / Carriage House Hall (directions to be emailed closer to class start date)
Instructor Roger Schmidt / All Skill Levels

Take your designs on paper through the process of lost wax casting to create finished jewelry. Beginning students will execute a guided project; intermediate and advanced students will work on their own designs. Wax working, casting, and finishing techniques will be demonstrated. At the start of the class, a group order will be placed for metal and supplies.

Location / Carriage House Hall (directions to be emailed closer to class start date)
Instructor Sharon Berkan-Dent / All Skill Levels

Create beautiful illustrations in ink, exploring both realism as well as more whimsical, stylized applications. Learn basic drawing skills with both pen and pencil, and then add a burst of color using watercolor markers. This technique is relaxing and experimental and works with a variety of drawing styles.

Instructor Allise Noble / All Skill Levels

Take your drawing and painting skills and apply them to portraiture. Classes will focus on proportion, scale, and perspective as they relate to the human face. We will work on color mixing, using a limited color palette to achieve different skin tones, and study images from Art History. For the most part painting will be from photo references with a focus on how best to take photos for that purpose.

Instructor Jill Tatroe / Intermediate & Advanced

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Transparent watercolor and acrylics are both water-based media. If you have taken a watercolor class in the past, Nancy can help you explore and improve in a class designed for intermediate to professional painters. Bring your paints, brushes, water container and paper or canvas, and get individualized instruction in a non-competitive and welcoming environment. You may choose to work in either acrylic on canvas or watercolor.

Instructor Nancy Philo / Beginners & Intermediate

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