Saturday & Sunday, August 15 and 16, 10am-4pm; Glazing Tuesday, August 25, 6-8pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $200 + $25 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Have a hard time committing to a 6-week class? Learn the basics of slab-building in this relaxed long-weekend class with Ros. Together, we’ll create a handmade breakfast set — a plate, bowl, and mug — while exploring simple techniques for building, shaping, and refining your work. Along the way, you’ll build confidence with clay and get comfortable with foundational handbuilding skills.
Each student will make at least one complete set, then return to glaze your pieces in coordinating colors. A great introduction to clay, with something special to use at home.
Note: This class fulfills the eligibility requirements for membership!
Ros O’Brien is an artist and studio potter who makes nature-inspired pottery from her home studio in Harrisonburg, VA. She works primarily with textured soft slabs, although her work sometimes incorporates thrown, pinched, or coiled components. Ros is endlessly curious, and has studied a diverse range of ceramic techniques with artists and potters around the globe, including Gail Kendall, Lauren Karle, Bill Griffith, and Ellen Shankin, and she was in the 2020 cohort of Naomi Clement’s Finding Your Voice Mentorship Program. Ros loves teaching, from beginner to advanced handbuilding. She loves to see people come together and learn about each other and themselves through clay, and enjoys the creative and unique ways her students come up with to use classic techniques. She is an instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and the owner of Friendly City Clay & Art Center in Harrisonburg, VA, where she teaches handbuilding.
Refunds minus a 10% or $20 processing fee (whichever is lower) are offered until 14 days before the start of class. After that, we do not offer refunds. We don’t offer refunds for missed classes, so please be sure you can attend all sessions of a class, or that you are okay with missing any that you’ll be away for. You can find out more on our studio policies page.
Saturday & Sunday, August 15 and 16, 10am-4pm; Glazing Tuesday, August 25, 6-8pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $200 + $25 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Have a hard time committing to a 6-week class? Learn the basics of slab-building in this relaxed long-weekend class with Ros. Together, we’ll create a handmade breakfast set — a plate, bowl, and mug — while exploring simple techniques for building, shaping, and refining your work. Along the way, you’ll build confidence with clay and get comfortable with foundational handbuilding skills.
Each student will make at least one complete set, then return to glaze your pieces in coordinating colors. A great introduction to clay, with something special to use at home.
Note: This class fulfills the eligibility requirements for membership!
Ros O’Brien is an artist and studio potter who makes nature-inspired pottery from her home studio in Harrisonburg, VA. She works primarily with textured soft slabs, although her work sometimes incorporates thrown, pinched, or coiled components. Ros is endlessly curious, and has studied a diverse range of ceramic techniques with artists and potters around the globe, including Gail Kendall, Lauren Karle, Bill Griffith, and Ellen Shankin, and she was in the 2020 cohort of Naomi Clement’s Finding Your Voice Mentorship Program. Ros loves teaching, from beginner to advanced handbuilding. She loves to see people come together and learn about each other and themselves through clay, and enjoys the creative and unique ways her students come up with to use classic techniques. She is an instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and the owner of Friendly City Clay & Art Center in Harrisonburg, VA, where she teaches handbuilding.
Refunds minus a 10% or $20 processing fee (whichever is lower) are offered until 14 days before the start of class. After that, we do not offer refunds. We don’t offer refunds for missed classes, so please be sure you can attend all sessions of a class, or that you are okay with missing any that you’ll be away for. You can find out more on our studio policies page.
