Pottery Classes
Sign up for our mini 2- and 3-week pottery classes that work with your summer schedule!
Our 8-week classes start July 7th. check for availability
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Join now! Our Summer mini-series starts June 20th
Our short classes in July offer new ways to love ceramics and stay in clay this summer.
Our short classes in July offer new ways to love ceramics and stay in clay this summer.
Kintsugi:
The beauty in the broken
by Alison Begala
July 11th and 18th,
and Sunday, July 20th
Our next 8-week session begins July 7th.
Sign up for studio updates to register when they open.
Explore Hand-Building
Explore Hand-Building
8 weeks/3 hours each $350 - Thursdays 9 am - noon
Instructor: Joe Netta
Who? Teens 13+ and adults. Open to all skill levels (novice and above) who want to elevate their hand-building skills.
You've asked for it: a whole session dedicated to the art of hand-building! Learn how to make unique work using pinch, coils, slump, and slab techniques -- as well as compound combinations -- in this project-based curriculum that culminates with surface design. After this session, you'll be able to apply these concepts to functional and sculptural ceramic forms. This class is designed to refine your handwork with clay.
Basic Wheel, Hand-Building & Beyond
Beginner Levels 1 & 2
Basic Wheel, Hand-Building & Beyond
Beginner Levels 1 & 2
8 weeks/3 hours each $350 - Multiple days and times offered
Instructors: Rachel Bevis, Alison Begala, Jenny Wood, Joe Netta
Who? Beginners/all levels - Teens 13+ and adults
This pottery course is full of ways to fall in love with clay! Whether you’ve never worked with clay or are returning, you’ll start with the basics of hand-building to make functional pieces like plates, mugs, and vases using slabs, textures, and coil. You'll also learn wheel throwing, centering and opening cylinders, cups, and bowls. If you've taken a previous lesson, continue where you left off with new demos and techniques. This class blends levels and is super fun and encouraging. We meet you at your level! Learn finishing techniques, firing, and glazing. Class time will be hands on with time to practice.
Includes:
25 lbs of clay, bisque, and glaze firing (more clay may be purchased in studio)
Tech supported open studio/week - independent practice
Basic toolkit required (add to your cart or bring your own).
Bring your own apron, or buy one of ours and prepare to get muddy!
Beginners' Pottery Wheel
Beginners' Pottery Wheel
8 weeks/3 hours each $350 - Thursday evenings or Saturday (two Sunday mornings within this session)
Instructors: Genevieve Conlin, Alison Begala
Who? Teens 13+ and adults. First-time wheel throwers and those who have taken an introductory wheel class.
Have you always wanted to try the potter's wheel, or have you taken an introduction to wheel class and want to continue to practice and learn? In this basic potter's wheel throwing course, you will focus on centering, opening, and making cylinders, cups, bowls, and more. If you've taken an intro class already, we will work with you to throw higher and make different forms. You'll experiment with trimming and surface treatments, plus learn glazing and under-glazing techniques. The class is hands-on instruction, and practice, practice, practice!
Includes:
25 lbs of clay, bisque, and glaze firing (more clay can be purchased in studio). Specialty clays are available for additional fee.
One 2- or 3-hour tech-supported Open Studio/week - independent practice (studio techs are available for questions).
Basic toolkit, reclaim bucket with lid and aprons required. Add to your cart if you need a new one and start your pottery tool obsession.
Bring your own apron, or buy our new Centered Clay branded split leg apron, and prepare to get muddy!
Prerequisite: able to throw a 6" cylinder, create open forms and know hand-building basics, or have taken two 8-week classes.
Intermediate Wheel & Surface
Intermediate Wheel & Surface
8 weeks/3 hours each $350 - Multiple times offered
Instructors: Joe Netta, Debby Wyatt
Who? Teens 13+ and adults who are further along on their pottery journey.
This intermediate pottery course is designed to build on and challenge your skills. You'll learn to build higher and more consistently, learn new throwing techniques, alter shapes, and create compound forms. You'll also continue adding new decorative applications.
Students will have 3 hours of Open Studio/week to practice.
Includes:
25 lbs of clay, bisque and glaze firing (more clay can be purchased in studio). Specialty clays are available for additional fee due at the start of the session.
Sometimes we get very experimental, such as with colored clays and dramatic surfaces. Additional materials fee may apply, but you can opt out of that demonstration.
Basic toolkit required. Add to your cart if you need a new one and start your pottery tool obsession.
Bring your own reclaim bucket and lid and apron, or rock it in our new Centered Clay Studio split leg apron - and get muddy!
Is your studio closed, or do you have a pretty booked summer and can't commit to 8-week sessions?
Is your studio closed, or do you have a pretty booked summer and can't commit to 8-week sessions?
Fear not clay addicts, we have a pop-in program for you! See below.
Fear not clay addicts, we have a pop-in program for you! See below.
Pop-In Pottery Class - $45/week
Pop-In Pottery Class - $45/week
Choose a minimum of 3 time slots at registration. These instructor-led sessions include demos and challenges to work on...or bring your own and receive coaching while advancing your skills.
Instruction weeks: July 7th through August 25th
Who? Teens 13+ and adults who have at least 6 - 8 weeks of prior classes here or elsewhere on the wheel or hand-building and want to focus with an experienced instructor to stay in clay this summer. This is not a first-timer's class.
Includes:
12.5 lbs of clay (3-week session), bisque, and cone 6 glaze firing.
More clay for purchase in the studio. Specialty clays (BMIX 5, KM Brown Bear, Standard 112 speckled, white stoneware 240) are available for additional fee. (Only clay purchased at Centered Clay Studio is allowed for kiln safety reasons.)
Enjoy 3 hours of Open Studio during the same week as your instruction. These can be found on the studio calendar.
*This class qualifies you to be eligible for a studio membership.
Would you like to become a Studio Member?
Click here to complete the studio membership application form.
POLICY FOR CANCELLATIONS, REFUNDS, AND CHANGING CLASSES:
• If you register for the wrong class, please email debby@centeredclaystudio.com to be transferred. Do not double book, or you will be charged a change of registration fee of 6%. (Our registration system requires an admin to make the change, or a new order is generated, hence the 6% fee.)
• Cancellations 48 hours or more before the class start time will be processed minus a 6% transaction fee.
• Withdrawals on week 1 of class will get a 50% refund.
• No refunds are given after the first week.
• If you need to make a class change within the same semester, please email debby@centeredclaystudio.com or call 717-860-1507.
We require a minimum of 6 students to hold a class. We will notify you within 7 days of the class start time and refund 100% of the price if a class cannot be held.
Thank you for understanding. Our instructors schedule far in advance and we want to be respectful of their time.
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