All Things Pottery
Boost your wheel throwing confidence with exercises focused on fundamental pottery techniques essential to a potter’s arsenal.
This studio-focused intensive summer art camp is a two-part 3D art experience designed to build your vocabulary in ceramics. An emphasis in both handbuilding and wheel throwing techniques will provide students with the opportunity to develop an array of skills in pottery and sculpture.
June 30 – July 13, 2024
Two week session
Student Exhibition
Friday, July 12, 2024
@ 6:00pm
Parks Exhibition Center
14 – 17
$3,730
$2,180
$175
$200
All levels
12 Students
Total Capacity includes Residential and Day Students
In your first week, you will focus on methods of construction, including various hand building techniques, sculpture, and the potter’s wheel. In your second week, you will examine glazing and firing, learning techniques such as high-temperature reduction (gas kiln) and mid-temperature oxidation (electric kiln), with the potential for raku and horsehair firing. This intensive gives you excellent opportunities for individual instruction, group interaction, and growth, whether you are a beginning or advanced student.
Our Visual Arts classes do not require any type of assessment or portfolio to get into the program. Instructors will work with your child at the level that they are at. Your child will improve and learn new skills whether they are a beginner or have been an artist for years.
A refillable water bottle
Comfortable clothes that can get messy
An apron or large, button up shirt to wear over your clothes
Sturdy closed-toed shoes
TBD
Boost your wheel throwing confidence with exercises focused on fundamental pottery techniques essential to a potter’s arsenal.
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