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POTTERY CLASSES

 

Clay Mix offers pottery classes. We limit only 10 students in each class so that everyone receives individualized instruction from an instructor. All levels are welcome. You can use the studio during our regular business hours.

Sign up today for pottery classes!

Wheel-throwing Class with Craig Easter
(all levels are welcome)

Morning class (8 weeks):
May 15 - July 3  
Tuesdays, 9:30am - Noon

Evening class (8 weeks):
May 15 - July 3 
Tuesdays, 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Fee: $195 for 8 weeks each 

This course focuses on working with clay on a potter's wheel. Beginners will learn basic skills in throwing and trimming. Intermediate and advanced students will explore new techniques based on individual interests and working at their own pace.  

Fee include:
- 1 bag of clay (25 lbs.)
- Firing fee for work produced during class time up to 2000 cubic inches. Additional firing is 1 cent per cubic inch.

Wheel-throwing Challenge
with Craig Easter

Wednesday Evenings
May 23 - July 11 :  6:00-8:30pm 
(Makeup class on July 5 for July 4) 

This class is designed for advanced students or potters who want to take on some new challenges in wheel-throwing to improve their work.  In this eight-week session, each student will decide their own topic and goals in collaboration with the instructor. Some outside studio work and research will be required and students should have a good foundation of throwing skills prior to signing up for this class.    

Fee: $185 for 8 weeks 
includes bisque firing fee for work produced  
during the class time (up to 2000 cubic inches).

Glaze Calculation
with Garrett Masterson

June 11 - July 9
Mondays:  2:00-4:30pm

Are you looking for a particular glaze but cannot find any? Create your own glaze! Find the right glaze solution for your style of work. This is a basic glaze course to understand foundations of glaze mixing. This class requires you to prepare your test bisque ware (small cups and test tiles in the clay you normally use) outside of the class time.

Fee: $125 for 5 weeks  
includes materials for small glaze tests

Surface Decoration 
with Garrett Masterson

June 11 - July 2
Mondays:  6:00-8:30pm

This class will cover a variety ways to decorate the surface of your pieces. Students will explore various ways of applying glazes (dipping, brushing, spraying and over lapping) as well as use of slip, engobe, underglaze, wax resist, carving and other techniques. This class requires you to prepare your pieces outside of class (some leather hard pieces and some bisque ware). 

Fee: $95 for 4 weeks

To register, pay with PayPal:
Pottery Class

Call 559.485.0065 for more information.

 

 
 

 

 

Instructor

Craig Easter has been creating ceramics over 35 years. He had served President of San Joaquin Clay & Glass Association and has been a Emeritus Member of Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California.

Garrett Masterson holds a Master of Fine Art from Portland State University, Oregon. His ceramic sculpture entitled "Seated Figure" was recently added to the collection of the Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum in Jingdezhen, China.

You can view Craig's and Garrett's work at Clay Mix gallery.

 

 


 

Craig Easter