4 thursdays, 1-3pm, 10/29-11/19
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $125 + $30 materials
Some clay experience needed, whether wheel throwing or handbuilding
Grow your confidence with glazing in this informative, hands-on class. We’ll learn how to make effective test tiles and explore why glazes behave the way they do, using a simple, approachable method for testing glazes and glaze combinations. By the end of class, you’ll feel more comfortable experimenting with new glazes, combining them thoughtfully, and troubleshooting unexpected kiln results.
There will also be plenty of time for questions, so bring all your burning glaze mysteries!
This class is open to anyone with some experience working with clay, whether you primarily handbuild or throw on the wheel. Whether you're just starting to explore glazing or have years of pottery experience, you'll leave with practical tools for making more informed glazing decisions. Instead of approaching glazing with uncertainty, we'll learn to see it as a process of curiosity, testing, and discovery.
A few notes: we'll focus on factors you can control when using shared or commercial dipping glazes, such as those commonly found in community and home studios. While the class centers on dipping glazes, many of the principles we discuss can also be applied to brushing glazes.
What students are saying about this class:
“Class was informative regarding glazing and you had plenty of opportunity to make lots of different glazed tiles. As always, Ros is positive, kind, helpful, and fun.”
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.
4 thursdays, 1-3pm, 10/29-11/19
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $125 + $30 materials
Some clay experience needed, whether wheel throwing or handbuilding
Grow your confidence with glazing in this informative, hands-on class. We’ll learn how to make effective test tiles and explore why glazes behave the way they do, using a simple, approachable method for testing glazes and glaze combinations. By the end of class, you’ll feel more comfortable experimenting with new glazes, combining them thoughtfully, and troubleshooting unexpected kiln results.
There will also be plenty of time for questions, so bring all your burning glaze mysteries!
This class is open to anyone with some experience working with clay, whether you primarily handbuild or throw on the wheel. Whether you're just starting to explore glazing or have years of pottery experience, you'll leave with practical tools for making more informed glazing decisions. Instead of approaching glazing with uncertainty, we'll learn to see it as a process of curiosity, testing, and discovery.
A few notes: we'll focus on factors you can control when using shared or commercial dipping glazes, such as those commonly found in community and home studios. While the class centers on dipping glazes, many of the principles we discuss can also be applied to brushing glazes.
What students are saying about this class:
“Class was informative regarding glazing and you had plenty of opportunity to make lots of different glazed tiles. As always, Ros is positive, kind, helpful, and fun.”
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.
