6 Tuesdays, 6-8pm, 11/10-12/15
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $225 + $35 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Get your hands dirty in this beginner-friendly coilbuilding class with Ros. We’ll use coils to build one-of-a-kind vases, exploring fun shapes and unexpected forms along the way. Then we’ll bring them to life with colorful underglazes and a technique called sgraffito, carving through the color to reveal patterns and designs beneath. No drawing skills needed—just come ready to play with clay.
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.
6 Tuesdays, 6-8pm, 11/10-12/15
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $225 + $35 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Get your hands dirty in this beginner-friendly coilbuilding class with Ros. We’ll use coils to build one-of-a-kind vases, exploring fun shapes and unexpected forms along the way. Then we’ll bring them to life with colorful underglazes and a technique called sgraffito, carving through the color to reveal patterns and designs beneath. No drawing skills needed—just come ready to play with clay.
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.
