Adult Handbuilding: Coil, Pinch, and Kurinuki with Ros
Overview
8 Wednesdays 6-8pm, 6/18-8/6
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $225 + $20 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Explore handbuilding with clay without a pottery wheel. We will practice a variety of creative techniques, including pinch, coil, and kurinuki, to make beautiful pieces using our hands and a few simple tools. If you have always wanted to learn to handbuild, or you want to expand your handbuilding skills to include new techniques, this is a great class for you.
Students can choose their projects, from luminaries, vases, and cups, to small-form sculpture. We will be meeting for 8 weeks, to give ourselves plenty of time with each method.
This class is perfect for absolute beginners or those looking for a refresher. More seasoned handbuilders are also welcome, whether looking to gain new insights or work independently with extra guidance.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Ros and the Friendly City Clay and Art team are amazing! Each class is a beautiful community of learning a new skill TOGETHER. Ros creates a wonderful and welcoming atmosphere that I look forward to being part of weekly” -Erin"
About the Instructor
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.
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.
Overview
8 Wednesdays 6-8pm, 6/18-8/6
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $225 + $20 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Explore handbuilding with clay without a pottery wheel. We will practice a variety of creative techniques, including pinch, coil, and kurinuki, to make beautiful pieces using our hands and a few simple tools. If you have always wanted to learn to handbuild, or you want to expand your handbuilding skills to include new techniques, this is a great class for you.
Students can choose their projects, from luminaries, vases, and cups, to small-form sculpture. We will be meeting for 8 weeks, to give ourselves plenty of time with each method.
This class is perfect for absolute beginners or those looking for a refresher. More seasoned handbuilders are also welcome, whether looking to gain new insights or work independently with extra guidance.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Ros and the Friendly City Clay and Art team are amazing! Each class is a beautiful community of learning a new skill TOGETHER. Ros creates a wonderful and welcoming atmosphere that I look forward to being part of weekly” -Erin"
About the Instructor
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.
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.
Overview
8 Wednesdays 6-8pm, 6/18-8/6
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $225 + $20 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Explore handbuilding with clay without a pottery wheel. We will practice a variety of creative techniques, including pinch, coil, and kurinuki, to make beautiful pieces using our hands and a few simple tools. If you have always wanted to learn to handbuild, or you want to expand your handbuilding skills to include new techniques, this is a great class for you.
Students can choose their projects, from luminaries, vases, and cups, to small-form sculpture. We will be meeting for 8 weeks, to give ourselves plenty of time with each method.
This class is perfect for absolute beginners or those looking for a refresher. More seasoned handbuilders are also welcome, whether looking to gain new insights or work independently with extra guidance.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Ros and the Friendly City Clay and Art team are amazing! Each class is a beautiful community of learning a new skill TOGETHER. Ros creates a wonderful and welcoming atmosphere that I look forward to being part of weekly” -Erin"
About the Instructor
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.
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.
