classes

AVL clay offers a variety of ways to dip your toes fingers into creating with clay

Clay 101 - Wheel

8 week session - $400

This is a class that focuses on the foundational skills you’ll need to begin making pots on the wheel. We’ll cover it all…wedging, centering, pulling up, shaping, trimming and glazing.

Classes include:

  • experienced instruction in a small group setting

  • kentucky mudworks cone 6 stoneware clay

  • use of all tools, glazes, underglazes, slips

  • bisque and glaze firing

  • access to studio throughout your session to hone your skills

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Skills Refresh - Wheel

4 week session - $225

Maybe you’ve done pottery in the past but you feel rusty or you just took the 101 class and want to step it up. This class will allow you to either re-familiarize yourself with the wheel or simply get more comfortable making a variety of forms.

Classes include:

  • experienced instruction in a small group setting

  • kentucky mudworks cone 6 stoneware clay

  • use of all tools, glazes, underglazes, slips

  • bisque and glaze firing

  • access to studio throughout your session to hone your skills

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Clay 101 - Handbuilding

6 week session - $300

Your adventure starts here! There are so many ways to express yourself in clay. Our handbuilding classes will take you through many of the ways in which you can create including slab construction, pinching, coiling, sculpting and more. We’ll finish up with glazing.

Classes include:

  • experienced instruction in a small group setting

  • kentucky mudworks cone 6 stoneware clay

  • use of all tools, glazes, underglazes, slips

  • bisque and glaze firing

  • access to studio throughout your session to hone your skills

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Surfaces

6 week session - $240

In this six-week session we will cover a wide range of surface design techniques that will add interest and creativity to your work such as underglaze transfer, sgraffito, using stencils as resists, slip trailing, color inlay and more.  Students will be asked to bring simple shapes (i.e. small plates, tiles, cups, etc…) in leather hard condition to class each week.  This class is ideal for the advanced beginner to intermediate potter who is ready to add some new techniques to their pottery skills toolbox.

Classes include:

  • experienced instruction in a small group setting

  • surface design materials (students will need to bring some tools of their own)

  • bisque and glaze firing with some limits on quantity

  • access to studio throughout your session to hone your skills

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Maker’s Choice

6 week session - $250

This is a “choose your own adventure” class where you bring your project ideas (wheel or handbuilt) and you are given studio support to accomplish them. This is a great class for advanced beginners who can work independently. Our final class will be focused on glazing. Classes are 3 hours each.

Classes include:

  • experienced studio support when you need guidance or brainstorming

  • studio buff stoneware clay

  • use of all tools, glazes, underglazes, slips

  • bisque and glaze firing with some limits on quantity

  • access to studio throughout your session to hone your skills

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