Saturday 4/4, 10am-2pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $125 + $10 materials (all materials are included)
Beginners and returners welcome!
Dive into slab-building with this playful spring project focused on making textured ceramic mugs. We’ll start by building slabs and adding surface texture, then explore a shaping technique called darting to gently alter form and create movement. You can choose to follow Ros's template for a square-bottom mug, or explore creating your own shape. Each student will leave with 1-2 mugs that are functional, expressive, and one-of-a-kind. This class is beginner-friendly and also offers plenty of room for experienced potters to expand their hand-building skills.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Thank you so much for offering this class. 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.
Saturday 4/4, 10am-2pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $125 + $10 materials (all materials are included)
Beginners and returners welcome!
Dive into slab-building with this playful spring project focused on making textured ceramic mugs. We’ll start by building slabs and adding surface texture, then explore a shaping technique called darting to gently alter form and create movement. You can choose to follow Ros's template for a square-bottom mug, or explore creating your own shape. Each student will leave with 1-2 mugs that are functional, expressive, and one-of-a-kind. This class is beginner-friendly and also offers plenty of room for experienced potters to expand their hand-building skills.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Thank you so much for offering this class. 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.
