AuSable Artisan Village

Series: Three classes - nine hours

Dates: Thursdays on Feb 12th, Feb 26th and March 12

Time: 4:30-7:30pm

Ages: 9-14     

Instructors: Terry Dickinson, Patrick Ertel & Kellie Carpenter

Class Size: Max 5 students/Min 3 students

All supplies and materials included

Ausable Artisan Village members may use their membership promo code at checkout. If you need help with that, contact AAV.

Class Description:

Join in the fun as students engage in the 3D art of creating with stoneware clay.  Terry Dickinson, Patrick Ertel and Kellie Carpenter experienced pottery teachers, will guide students as they develop hands-on knowledge, experience and skills with stoneware clay. Each class will build on the skills presented in the previous classes.  

Ceramic Clay:

Working with ceramic clay is a fun, educational process where children develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, focus, and creativity by shaping clay into unique forms.

Ceramic clay, which is a natural material that hardens by drying in the air then firing in a kiln, while polymer clay is a plastic-based, man-made modeling material that requires baking in a home oven to become hard and durable.

Class 1: Overview & Handbuilding with Clay

Students will learn the fundamentals of working with ceramic clay. Techniques such as slab rolling, stamping, cutting, scoring, and slip/joining to create tiles, pinch pots, figurines, decorative wall art. Projects are only limited by the imagination!

Class 2: Potter's Wheel

Join us for some muddy fun as we learn how to throw clay on the pottery wheel. Maybe a mug? Maybe a bowl? Maybe just a mess!

This class is more about learning how the clay, the wheel and the potter interact. Students will learn the basics of securing the ball of clay to the wheel, centering and opening, and pulling to a desired shape.

Class 3: Glaze Day

On the last day of Clay Club, students will finish their clay creations by glazing their work. Each student will use colorful glazes, called “underglazes” to decorate their pottery. Students may use a variety of different techniques, such as painting, using stencils, or fine details with squirt bottles to create their unique designs.

Class Disclaimers:

Full refunds if AAV cancels the class. Refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before class begins. No refunds after that time.

AAV is handicapped accessible.

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions.