Thursdays & Mondays 6-8pm, July 9th-20th (July 9, 13, 16, 20)
Plus optional potluck Thursday 7/23 6-8pm
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 empowering and informative class. We’ll practice different ways to dip & pour glazes, explore the variables that affect how your glaze turns out on a piece, make and use test tiles, and get you started developing a "look" that you enjoy, and that you can reproduce consistently.
This class is open to anyone with some experience with clay, whether handbuilding or wheel throwing — there will be something to learn, whether you’re a newbie glazer or have been making pottery for years. Rather than approaching glazing with trepidation, we’ll learn to see it as a process of discovery and experimentation.
A couple of notes: the class will be focusing on factors you can control when using shared or commercial dipping glazes, such as in a community studio, or in many home studios. We will focus on dipping glazes, but many of the principles can be applied to brushing glazes as well.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Ros meets you where you are. She is so supportive and creates a positive classroom setting. I can’t recommend it enough.” - Jeanne Horst
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.
Thursdays & Mondays 6-8pm, July 9th-20th (July 9, 13, 16, 20)
Plus optional potluck Thursday 7/23 6-8pm
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 empowering and informative class. We’ll practice different ways to dip & pour glazes, explore the variables that affect how your glaze turns out on a piece, make and use test tiles, and get you started developing a "look" that you enjoy, and that you can reproduce consistently.
This class is open to anyone with some experience with clay, whether handbuilding or wheel throwing — there will be something to learn, whether you’re a newbie glazer or have been making pottery for years. Rather than approaching glazing with trepidation, we’ll learn to see it as a process of discovery and experimentation.
A couple of notes: the class will be focusing on factors you can control when using shared or commercial dipping glazes, such as in a community studio, or in many home studios. We will focus on dipping glazes, but many of the principles can be applied to brushing glazes as well.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Ros meets you where you are. She is so supportive and creates a positive classroom setting. I can’t recommend it enough.” - Jeanne Horst
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.
