Do you enjoy working on your own independent clay projects but sometimes come across a stumbling block?
Do you enjoy working on your own independent clay projects but sometimes come across a stumbling block?
Sunday Clay – High Fire! with artists Erik Wold and Emily Herb is an eight-week workshop offered from March 12 through May 7 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus.
Wold and Herb will provide individualized assistance for those with previous or no prior clay or wheel throwing experience. The class will impart basic techniques including clay preparation, centering and throwing.
Sessions are from 11:30 a.m.-2:20 p.m. or 2:45-5:45 p.m. Cost for either session is $185 or $166 for VAC members plus a $13 materials fee for 6 pounds of clay, including glazes and firing. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
The classes will be an introduction to working with and firing midrange stoneware. Emphasis will be on learning and refining wheel-throwing skills and the possibilities of stoneware glazes. Eight registration slots are open to “wheel-throwers” and two additional places will be open to “hand-builders.”
During the morning and afternoon classes, Wold will focus on making work for stoneware reduction firing; in the afternoon class, Herb will offer techniques for decorating and glazing stoneware for electric kiln firing.
The workshop will include “wet work” with clay on six Sundays: March 12 through April 16. No class April 23 (to allow time for pieces to dry before firing). Glazing will take place April 30. The final glaze firing will be in a local Volcano potter’s kilns, with kiln opening and potluck to follow May 7.
To register or for more information, call 967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.