Making Pottery - "Pas De Deux"
Adult Class | FULL
Veteran instructors Anita Griffith and Robert Parrott team-up to combine the best of their approaches to teaching pottery. Alternating weeks of instruction, Anita and Bob will offer a comprehensive survey of hand building and wheel throwing, with an emphasis on form, function, and development of personal style and expression. Learn about ceramic shapes and uses, from cups, bowls and plates to vases, bottles and teapots. Beginners are welcome and will learn all the basics of forming and glazing. Intermediate and advanced students will be challenged to work toward more refined products and to design independent projects with guidance and demonstrations.
Robert Parrott
ROBERT PARROTT holds a BA from the University of New Hampshire. He has been a full time potter since 1971, working in domestic stoneware and numerous forms of architectural ceramics. He has taught at Creative Arts Workshop, Wesleyan Potters, Brookfield Craft Center, Horizons and Pratt Institute in NYC. He exhibits and sells internationally.
Anita Griffith
ANITA GRIFFITH holds a BFA from Tulane University. She also studied at the New York College of Ceramics, Alfred, and has professional training in industrial design, mold making and slip casting at a pottery studio in Kyoto, Japan. She is a full time potter and Principal of "It's Only Mud," a commercial pottery of her original ceramic objects. Her work has been commissioned and exhibited widely throughout the USA. She teaches at Southern Connecticut State University and Creative Arts Workshop, and has taught at Wesleyan Potters, Brookfield Craft Center, and through the Visiting Artists' program of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She taught travel workshops on Native American pottery processes in the American Southwest, and Spanish tile-making in Seville. She has also served as juror for local and national arts organizations.