Monday Night Clay | Fall 2

Monday Night Clay | Fall 2

Ceramics | Available

Bruce House | 171 Cedar Street Corning, NY 14830 United States
Ceramics Studio | Whole
18+
10/28/2024-12/9/2024
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$302.00
$252.00

Monday Night Clay | Fall 2

Ceramics | Available

A mixed-level class for beginner to intermediate students with Kirk Allen. You will learn varied clay techniques: wheel throwing, hand building, slab rolling, and more. The instructor will work with the students in the class to decide where their interests lie and what they would like to learn! Students will walk away from this class with a greater understanding of ceramics as a whole and a feeling for the direction they would like to take in their work.

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Allen, Kirk
Kirk Allen

Kirk Teaches: Wheel Throwing, Teen Pottery, Thrown Together, and Wheel Workshops

Kirk has been a Ceramic Artist for 25 years.  He has a Bachelor of Art: in Art, Theater, and Recreation, with a focus on Ceramic and Print Making from Northwestern Collage, Orange City, IA. He was a ceramics instructor at Orange Street Pottery, Wilmington, NC, and is currently teaching at 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY. He has taken classes at both locations, as well as at John C. Campbell Folk Arts School, Brasstown, NC, Over the years he has also attended many other ceramic workshops and Talks.  He currently works in a small pottery studio at home, with a focus on wheel-thrown functional wear.  He also enjoys helping out with his wife’s basket making, brewing beer with friends, cooking, and woodworking projects.

The focus of Kirk’s work is to make beauty that supports the joy found in the everyday.  For Kirk pottery is a personal journey of self-exploration and problem-solving.  In clay we can find where we come from and who we are.  The potter can dig clay from the ground, form it into a vessel, fire it with discarded brush, then add fresh vegetables from the garden and you have a meal to enjoy with friends.