Hand-Building & Wheel Hybrid

This isn’t your grandmother’s hand-building workshop. Over six weeks, students will work with the wildly talented John Masello, whose work blends ceramics, plastics, and fabrics in bold bursts of color.

Students will explore a range of hand-building techniques to create abstract sculptural pieces, with the pottery wheel playing a supporting role. Skills include throwing off the hump, pinching, coil building, slab work, and extruding. The course also covers different ways to plan and develop projects using paper templates, sketches, and photographs.

Schedule: this workshop meets once a week for six consecutive weeks on the same day and time. each session is 2.5 hours, for a total of 15 hours of instruction. please book only if you can attend all six dates.
Skill level: first-time potters through beginners. no prior clay experience is required.