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Tag Archive for: 8-Week Class

Beginner Wheel Throwing

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Learn to create and glaze functional, decorative, and sculptural forms using a pottery wheel. Focus on developing your understanding of how to operate a potter’s wheel, while you learn to create the three basic wheel-thrown forms: cylinders/cups, bowls, and vases.

Instructor:  Emery Cotten

Supply List

Students will need to bring:  (Links are recommendations, not required brands)

Students will be provided:

    • Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
    • One (1) bag of clay

Beginner Wheel Throwing

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Learn to create and glaze functional, decorative, and sculptural forms using a pottery wheel. Focus on developing your understanding of how to operate a potters wheel, while you learn to create the three basic wheel-thrown forms: cylinders/cups, bowls, and vases.

Instructor:  Emily Malott

Supply List

Students will need to bring:  (Links are recommendations, not required brands)

Students will be provided:

    • Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
    • One (1) bag of clay

Intermediate Handbuilding

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Learn the uniquely expressive qualities of clay to create handbuilt pottery and sculptures. Develop various and more advanced techniques from previous handbuilding classes. Explore advanced pinching, coiling, slab making, and surface alteration to help create beautifully glazed and fired ceramic ware.

Beginner Handbuilding courses are preferred before registering for this class.

Instructor: Amy Pellegrino

Supply List

Students will need to bring:  (Links are recommendations, not required brands)

Students will be provided:

    • Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
    • One (1) bag of clay

Beginner Handbuilding

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Learn the uniquely expressive qualities of clay to create pottery and sculptures. Develop various hand-building techniques including pinching, coiling and slab-making. Create beautifully glazed and fired ceramic ware.

Instructor:  Charity Rust-Jordan

Supply List

Students will need to bring:  (Links are recommendations, not required brands)

Students will be provided:

    • Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
    • One (1) bag of clay

Colored Pencil & Mixed Media

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Explore a variety of techniques in colored pencil, ink, and mixed media. Through class projects, demonstrations, and individual instruction, the instructor will help students build on their skills, strengths, and interests with an emphasis on helping each student develop their own individual style.

Students will have the option of working on class projects or working independently on projects of their own choice.

Instructor:  Nancy Pugliano

Supply List

  • Colored Pencils  (Any brand, recommend at least the 36 pack of Prismacolors with an additional henna, cool and warm greys, and colorless blender)
  • Bristol drawing paper  (smooth or vellum)
  • #2 pencil
  • Kneadable eraser
  • Micron or other brand pigma pens sizes: 005, 01 and 02
  • Portable pencil sharpener (battery preferred)
  • 12 inch ruler
  • Round stencil brushes
  • Turpenoid or solvent and q-tips

Additional supplies will be discussed during the first class.

Advanced Watercolor

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Learn how to paint the people, landscapes, animals, or flowers you love. Receive personal one on one attention as well as daily demonstrations are given in order to help you grow in experience as a watercolor artist. Some painting experience is required.

Instructor:  Ken Buck

Supply List

Watercolor Paints:  Winsor & Newton or Daniel Smith tubes

  • Permanent Alizarin Crimson
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Cadmium Red
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Transparent Yellow
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Cobalt Turquoise
  • French Ultramarine Blue
  • Hooker’s Green Dark
  • Indigo
  • Permanent Mauve
  • Permanent Magenta
  • Permanent Sap Green
  • Rhodonite Genuine
  • Raw Sienna
  • Sepia
  • Phthalo Green

Other Supplies:

  • 4 H pencil and kneaded eraser
  • Watercolor paper. 140 to 300-pound, individual sheets or watercolor blocks (rough/cold press). If using individual sheets of paper, you will need a drawing board to attach the paper to.
  • Two plastic water containers
  • Rags or paper towels
  • Masking tape
  • Flat watercolor palette with multiple wells
  • Flat watercolor brushes, mop brush, and a script brush or liner.

Please bring your own photographic images to paint from each week.

Open Studio (Watercolor, Pastel, Acrylic)

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Explore the medium of your choice in this 8-week open studio class. Students will be given individual attention on the subject of their choosing. Familiarity with the medium is required and no demonstrations will be given during this class.

Instructor:  Ken Buck

Supply List

  • Please bring your own reference photo to class each week.
  • All other mediums and surfaces are at the student’s discretion.
  • Supply advice can be given on the first day of class.

Open Studio-Mixed Media Mosaics

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Connect with fellow mosaic students while receiving guidance and support with your own self-directed mosaic projects.  Students will need to bring their own projects and materials to class. Based on student interests, instruction may be provided in experimenting and exploring a variety of mosaic materials and contemporary mixed-media mosaic methods.


Students should have some prior mosaic experience or have completed an introductory class in mosaic art. This class is construction based; hand strength and dexterity are required.

Instructor:  Julie Christmann

Supply List

Students bring their own supplies to class. Some supplies such as thin-set mortar and hand tools will be available on a limited basis. The instructor can provide references and suggestions to students regarding recommended materials and suppliers. Reach out to her at freeformmosaics@gmail.com with any questions. 

Beginner Wheel Throwing

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Learn to create and glaze functional, decorative, and sculptural forms using a pottery wheel. Focus on developing your understanding of how to operate a potters wheel, while you learn to create the three basic wheel-thrown forms: cylinders/cups, bowls, and vases.

Instructor:  Amy Pellegrino

Supply List

Students will need to bring:  (Links are recommendations, not required brands)

Students will be provided:

    • Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
    • One (1) bag of clay

Beginner Handbuilding

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Learn the uniquely expressive qualities of clay to create pottery and sculptures.  Develop various hand-building techniques including pinching, coiling and slab-making.  Create beautifully glazed and fired ceramic ware.

Instructor:  Tanya Leach

Supply List

Students will need to bring:  (Links are recommendations, not required brands)

Students will be provided:

    • Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
    • One (1) bag of clay