ClaysCool

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585 Park Street Naples, FL 34102 United States

Studio 205

5-8yrs

6/24/2024-6/28/2024

1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri

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$150.00

This class explores the never-ending possibilities of what you can hand build with clay. You will use slabs, coils, slumping, pinching, extruding, and many other techniques to create fun and functional pottery. New projects every week!

 

  • Please bring a drink & snack for the mid-class break.

    Students staying all day must bring a bagged lunch from home.
  • All supplies included. 
Nelson, Karen

Karen is a native Californian with a career as a decorative painter. She brings to her students her knowledge of composition, color, design and communication. Karen has honed her painting skills using acrylic and oil paint for murals, specialist painting techniques and watercolors for commissioned artwork.


With her ceramics, Karen hand-builds and applies her painting skills to the decoration of the surface. Ceramics allows her to create without a high bar of perfection, allowing for the thrill of the unknown, taking chances and having fun.

Karen graduated from Mills College, having studied ceramics with Ron Nagle. She received her MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating she taught painting classes at SAIC while starting her business.