Beginning Hand Building
Adult Classes | Available
Discover the fun of creating pottery with your hands. Even if you have never touched clay, you will learn how to design & build unique pieces. We’ll make functional and decorative forms using clay slabs and other non-wheel pottery techniques. Beginners will be walked through each step of the hand building process including forming, decorating, and glazing. After kiln firings, your finished art will be waterproof and food safe, ready for you to enjoy.
Karen Nelson
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.