Wheel Throwing 1.5: Fine Tuning for Beginners
Overview
Multiple sessions available! Choose your session from the drop down below.
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $250 + $15 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Take your pottery skills to the next level in this guided class designed for potters ready to grow! With your teacher’s encouraging and expert guidance, you will learn the techniques you need to progress and get personalized feedback to help you grow your skills on the wheel. With plenty of hands-on practice and creative exploration, this class will empower you to create pottery that is uniquely yours.
About Karis Barry’s Class: Karis will assist any of your artistic goals, whether you want to just get more confident on the wheel, or throw larger pieces, try new shapes, master handle-pulling, or refine your decorating skills.
About Steve Palmer's Class: We will focus on pieces for the family meal (at my table everyone is welcome). In the process of making, I will help each student improve their throwing with encouragement and helpful tips to improve their skills. I will include underglazes, stamping, and various surface design elements to bring their pieces to life. Caution: there is a small amount of hand building included in this class.
What students are saying about this class
“I had the best time in my wheel class! It was so fun, welcoming, well paced, + a wonderful place for creative expression. Despite the class size, I still felt like I got as much 1:1 help as I needed to make sure I loved my pieces. I can't wait to come back!” - Shannon
“Friendly City Clay & Art Center is a beautiful space filled with natural light and friendly instructors. Come in and give yourself the gift of exploring something new. Better yet, come in with a friend!” - Tamara
“If you are thinking of taking a class - DO IT! Great Environment with so much creativity happening! Instructor was AMAZING with so many varied skill levels and so willing to help!” - Emily
Overview
Multiple sessions available! Choose your session from the drop down below.
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $250 + $15 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Take your pottery skills to the next level in this guided class designed for potters ready to grow! With your teacher’s encouraging and expert guidance, you will learn the techniques you need to progress and get personalized feedback to help you grow your skills on the wheel. With plenty of hands-on practice and creative exploration, this class will empower you to create pottery that is uniquely yours.
About Karis Barry’s Class: Karis will assist any of your artistic goals, whether you want to just get more confident on the wheel, or throw larger pieces, try new shapes, master handle-pulling, or refine your decorating skills.
About Steve Palmer's Class: We will focus on pieces for the family meal (at my table everyone is welcome). In the process of making, I will help each student improve their throwing with encouragement and helpful tips to improve their skills. I will include underglazes, stamping, and various surface design elements to bring their pieces to life. Caution: there is a small amount of hand building included in this class.
What students are saying about this class
“I had the best time in my wheel class! It was so fun, welcoming, well paced, + a wonderful place for creative expression. Despite the class size, I still felt like I got as much 1:1 help as I needed to make sure I loved my pieces. I can't wait to come back!” - Shannon
“Friendly City Clay & Art Center is a beautiful space filled with natural light and friendly instructors. Come in and give yourself the gift of exploring something new. Better yet, come in with a friend!” - Tamara
“If you are thinking of taking a class - DO IT! Great Environment with so much creativity happening! Instructor was AMAZING with so many varied skill levels and so willing to help!” - Emily
Overview
Multiple sessions available! Choose your session from the drop down below.
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $250 + $15 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Take your pottery skills to the next level in this guided class designed for potters ready to grow! With your teacher’s encouraging and expert guidance, you will learn the techniques you need to progress and get personalized feedback to help you grow your skills on the wheel. With plenty of hands-on practice and creative exploration, this class will empower you to create pottery that is uniquely yours.
About Karis Barry’s Class: Karis will assist any of your artistic goals, whether you want to just get more confident on the wheel, or throw larger pieces, try new shapes, master handle-pulling, or refine your decorating skills.
About Steve Palmer's Class: We will focus on pieces for the family meal (at my table everyone is welcome). In the process of making, I will help each student improve their throwing with encouragement and helpful tips to improve their skills. I will include underglazes, stamping, and various surface design elements to bring their pieces to life. Caution: there is a small amount of hand building included in this class.
What students are saying about this class
“I had the best time in my wheel class! It was so fun, welcoming, well paced, + a wonderful place for creative expression. Despite the class size, I still felt like I got as much 1:1 help as I needed to make sure I loved my pieces. I can't wait to come back!” - Shannon
“Friendly City Clay & Art Center is a beautiful space filled with natural light and friendly instructors. Come in and give yourself the gift of exploring something new. Better yet, come in with a friend!” - Tamara
“If you are thinking of taking a class - DO IT! Great Environment with so much creativity happening! Instructor was AMAZING with so many varied skill levels and so willing to help!” - Emily
Instructors
Karis Barry has been making a living as a potter for over 40 years, selling at art fairs and through galleries. She took an adult education class in MA one winter and bought a pottery wheel before she could even throw a good pot, thinking it would be a hobby. After taking more classes at some museum schools in the Boston area, she bought a kiln and hasn't looked back.
When making her pottery her goals are to make something useful and to give visual pleasure. Her work has been influenced by living and traveling in Southeast Asia and Europe. But it is also influenced by her Norwegian ancestry which gives her an affinity for the clean Scandinavian sense of design in regard to form, as well as the Norwegian love of nature.
The images on the work are created by using engobes and sgraffito. An engobe is a layer of liquid clay applied to the surface to the pot. Colored by various oxides, the engobes used on these works are applied when the porcelain is still damp. After the piece dries, a design is chosen and sketched onto the engobe then sgraffitoed (from the italian word “to scratch”) to expose the porcelain body underneath. This creates a slightly raised surface where the engobe has been left on to create the image.
Steve Palmer received his B.F.A. from Rhode Island College, and continued his study of sculpture in Italy at the Tuscan Renaissance Center. As a member of the South County Art Association in RI and now at City Clay, in Charlottesville, VA, He continues to explore the many forms and functions of clay. Through teaching, he hopes to share and ignite the same passion and excitement in his students that he has for the ceramic form. His passion for working with clay took off while he was a Studio Member of the South County Art Association. The opportunity to work and teach in a creative, supportive environment, surrounded by artists is ideal for him.
Class Cancellations and Absence
Refunds minus a $20 processing fee 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.
