Using slab and extruded methods, vessels will be constructed during the first two sessions. Only four students attend each firing day so that each student is able to fire more work. Bring a picnic lunch. Specify your firing date preference at the time of registration. Come learn to translate clay into various moods and feelings as viewed through various poses.
Emphasis is on anatomy, proportion, body gesture and expression.
The remaining two weeks will be spent completing works in progress. Work completed in class will be fired and finished. Neriage involves sandwiching dark and light clay into stacked slabs that are first cut into strips and then into blocks which are pressed together to create patterned sheets of clay from which to form clay wares. Millefiori is a technique, borrowed from glass makers, in which a core of one color clay is surrounded by a body of a contrasting color, sliced crosswise into pieces and pressed into slabs. Inlaying involves laminating colored clay slabs in a particular patterns into a piece.