Classes and Workshops
Rise and Shine Wheel Throwing For Beginners +
with Shari Zabriskie
This fun morning class will introduce you to the fundamentals of throwing pots on the wheel. Over the course of eight weeks, learn and practice the techniques of clay preparation, centering, throwing, trimming, glazing, and more! This class is geared towards beginners, those continuing to work on their basic skills and those who are coming back to pottery after many years. . Demonstrations, discussions, coaching, and abundant practice time. Ages 16 and up.
Upcoming Sessions:
January 7-February 25, Tuesdays 9am-Noon
January 30- March 20, Thursdays 9am-Noon
March 18-May 6, Tuesdays 9am-Noon
April 17-June 5, Thursdays 9am-Noon
$320 fee + $42 for each bag of clay used.
Daily practice time included.
email shabbazabba@yahoo.com to register!
Beginner+ Wheel Throwing
with Teta Hilsdon
Throughout eight weeks, practice the basics of making pots on the wheel: centering, throwing different forms, trimming, glazing, recycling clay and a few decorative techniques.
For beginners, those continuing work on their basic skills, or those coming back to pottery after many years.
Demonstrations, discussions, coaching, and abundant practice time. Ages 16 and up.
Upcoming Sessions:
Jan 7 through Mar 4, Tuesdays 6-9pm (includes snow date) WAITLIST
Feb 3 through Mar 31, Mondays 6-9pm (includes snow date)
Mar 11 through Apr 6, Tuesdays 6-9pm (includes snow date)
Apr 14 through Jun 2, Mondays 6-9pm
$320 fee + $42 for each bag of clay used.
Daily practice time included.
Email tetahilsdon@gmail.com to register!
Pinch Pot Sculpture Skills!
with Meg Dougherty
Learn essential skills for creating pinched sculptural forms. In this one day workshop, students will learn strategies for each step of designing and building a complex pinched object: drawing and designing, pinching and joining, shaping and finishing. Students will watch demos, then practice skills with instructor guidance. Students will leave class with a new set of skills and 5 lbs of sculptural clay. Some hands on clay experience is helpful, but all skills will be introduced from a beginner's perspective.
Saturday October 5 (waitlist only)
9 AM-Noon
For ages 16 and up. Some experience is necessary.
$115 includes clay and use of the studio on the day of workshop until 6pm.
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Tumble and Slip!
Three Week Intensive
with Shari Zabriskie
This three part workshop will open you up to exploration! The first class is all about throwing lots of test pots while searching for new cylinder forms and/or throwing off the hump. The idea is to workshop tu in preparation for our second class. During our second session we will get messy with slip decorating leather hard pots. Slip can be applied in many different ways using different tools and techniques. Try slip trailing, dry brushing, build up skin like stucco, play with dots, paper blocking, mocha diffusion and even mono-printing. Our third session will be a glazing session where you have opportunity to lay on another layer of decoration using under-glazes, stains and dipping glazes. Class includes lots of consultation on developing your own ideas and daily practice time during the three week session. There will be deadlines to finalize work for the bisque kiln (in preparation for our glazing session) and any other pieces made after that firing can be finished in the studio using day passes.
Three Saturdays:
October 19, 26 and November 2 (waitlist only)
9 AM-Noon
For ages 16 and up with throwing experience.
$235 plus clay (colored slips, underglazes, stains, glazes and firing included).
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Short Intro to Wheel Throwing
with Teta Hilsdon
This is a new class offering, giving curious students a short and sweet introduction to wheel throwing before winter sets in. In three sessions over just two weeks, you'll have a chance to throw a few pots, trim, and glaze. Just enough to give you a taste of the process. If it's great, you might want to register for an 8-week winter class later.
Tuesday, December 3, 6:00–8:30PM: Wheel throwing demo followed by coaching.
Thursday, December 5, 6:00–8:30PM: Trim the work you threw on Tuesday.
Tuesday, December 10, 6:00–8:30PM: Glaze your work.
Thursday, December 12, 6:00–6:45PM: Pick up finished work!
For new students, ages 16 and older.
$120 includes clay.
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Intro to Sectional Throwing
with Teta Hilsdon
In this 2-session workshop you will learn about the techniques, clays, and tools needed to make larger vessels by throwing in sections. You're limited only by your imagination, persistence, and the capacity of your kiln, so dive in!
December 7 and 14
Saturdays, 9am – 12pm
For potters who can reliably center and throw 5# or more.
$160 includes 15# of clay for your first vessel.
To inquire about class or to register, please email Teta:
2025 workshops
Building with Slabs!
with Teta Hilsdon
Building with slabs is a fun and relatively easy way to make plates, trays, platters, and vases with beautiful textured patterns. Learn to roll clay into a slab, cut, design, texture, form pieces, and glaze. We'll make both flat and three dimensional pieces. Class includes daily practice time during the three week class session. Once the full class is over, you'll have the skills to work on your own at Wheelhouse using a day pass.
January 4, 11 and 25
Saturdays, 9am – 12pm
For ages 16 and up. No experience necessary.
$200 plus clay ($21 for 1/2 bag, includes glazes and firing).
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Winter Moon Rising:
Throwing Round Vessels
with Ben Eberle
Love the volume of those round moon pots? Having issues finding that form on the wheel? Interested in learning to throw a little larger and level up your cylinder game? This weekend workshop will address those issues with demos and hands-on practice exercises. Students should consider themselves intermediate throwers with experience throwing 3-4lbs of stiffer clay. The ability to pull a 6-8" cylinder is a bonus but not 100% necessary.
Ben Eberle is a studio potter, writer, kiln builder and educator from Conway, MA. He has been working in clay for over 25 years and teaches workshops all over New England. His thrown and altered pots have appeared in shows accross the country as well as the two local pottery tours in Western, MA. He hosts group firing workshops twice a year at his Karma Kiln in Shelburne, MA.
Satruday and Sunday
February 1 and 2
9 AM-Noon
For ages 16 and up with throwing experience.
$200 plus clay. Students are welcome to continue working independently until 6pm on both workshop days.
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Coil and Pinch Vessels
with Josh Gold
This course will teach the ancient art of coil and pinching clay vessels. Learn how to gain complete control of the form while building bowls, cylinders and thin necked vases and bottles.
Josh Gold has been a studio potter for over 50 years. His functional pottery has been sold in galleries and included in National Exhibitions all over the USA. For the past 10 years he has been concentrating on hand built figurative sculpture, on display and for sale at his studio in Westminster West, VT. Josh has taught month long workshops at Iowa Wesleyan University, Knox College, Carrol University and continues to offer private lessons from his home studio.
Saturdays
March 1 and 8
9 AM-Noon
For ages 16 and up. Some clay experience is helpful but not necessary.
$200 plus clay. Daily practice time between 12-6 during the week between sessions is included in the tuition.
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Exploring Glaze!
with Meg Dougherty
What is glaze? What makes a glaze durable? Is this food safe? What are the best ways to apply glaze? In this workshop you will learn the basics of what glaze is, how it works, how to apply it and how to start making adjustments to ready mixed glazes. We will run three glaze experiments: layering glaze, combining ready mixed glazes and adjusting color. This class will offer you a few ways to play with your studio's glazes even if you don't have access to a glaze mixing lab.
Three Saturdays:
April 12, 19 and 26
9 AM-Noon
For ages 16 and up. Experience is necessary.
$235 plus materials
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