Join Marie the Potter on Sunday, March 22nd from 11:00AM-2:00PM as she teaches you how to center clay on a wheel, how to form a cylinder, cut the skirt off and cut the piece from the wheel. Ultimately, you’ll make several small bowls or dishes.

Important Information About This Class: This class was designed with beginners in mind, and those wishing to improve their wheel throwing skills. We hope that the information that follows will help you to approach it with realistic expectations and a hopeful beginners mindset. If you’ve never ever touched clay previously, we highly recommend that you join us for one of our hand building classes before trying wheel throwing. They’ll provide you with a feel for clay and the manners in which we manipulate it. These classes also ensure successful beautiful larger scale projects to most everyone who attends them. No one easily creates big beautiful bowls when they sit down at the wheel for the first time. It’s a process, and it takes time to master it. The skills that you learn in each class will build on one another, and we encourage you to embrace this progress as a measure of your success.

After class, Marie will finish each piece that you create. They’ll be trimmed, dried, fired in our kiln, glazed, dried, and fired in our kiln again. This entire process can take approximately 4 weeks depending on the humidity level and the time that it takes your pottery to thoroughly dry between kiln firings. We’ll update you by phone or text when your pottery is ready for pickup. Finished classwork must be picked up within 90 days of notification that it’s ready. At the end of 90 days, student projects will be disposed of at the gallery’s discretion.

To allow the most individualized attention possible, class size is limited to 6 students, 1 per wheel. The all inclusive price of $79 for this class includes all supplies, tool usage, glaze selection, 2 kiln firings, and expert instruction. Register through the event website link provided below or call 910-245-4129.