Intermediate Handbuilding: Teapots
Wednesdays, 6:00pm
January 13 – February 3
Class:
Designed for students with handbuilding experience, this class explores the creation of teapots, combining multiple skills and techniques to produce a functional work of art!
What You’ll Learn:
Students will employ previously learned techniques in slab, coil, pinch, extrusion and others to develop new skills in teapot construction, lidded vessels, template creation, surface decoration, and more.
We prefer that students have taken a beginner handbuilding class before registering for this class.
What You’ll Leave With:
Depending on the disciplinary skill of the student, each student will produce a finished and functional teapot in 4 weeks.
(Students will submit glazed works for final firing on the last class of the session. Students will be contacted, via email, once their pottery has finished firing and available for pick up on a later date)
***(Students are required to follow the instructor’s curriculum. Only work produced from that curriculum will be fired.)***
Instructor: Alex Noel
Supply List
Students will need to bring:
- Own set of clay or throwing tools if desired
- Printed out pictures of teapots for inspiration
Students will be provided:
- Shelf space as close to their creation station as possible
- (1x) bag of clay
Links to Class Suggested Items: (These are recommendations, not the required brands)
- Clay / Throwing Tools
- Large Cleaning Sponge
- Small clay work sponge
- We recommend buying a basic toolkit with a small sponge included.
- Small Bucket for cleaning
- Any clean, small to medium sized bucket will do.
- Canvas
- We recommend a minimum of 2ft x 2ft piece.
