From The Studio To The Kitchen: Hand/Wheel Hybrid
Adult Classes | Available
Start your party with beautiful pieces made by you in the studio! This hybrid class is for the wheel throwing or hand building student who wishes to focus on making vessels that are both functional and satisfying for the kitchen and home. Group demonstrations will include: chip/dip plates, serving bowls and plates, tea pots, lidded jars, spoon rests, mugs, planters, vases and more. Students should come to the class with goals of what they’d like to make and perfect, ready to start hand building or wheel throwing. Making good functional pieces with clay requires learning and practicing so you can take them to the next level.
- Please note that this class runs 5 WEEKS.
Rebecca Matarazzi
Using a variety of techniques in clay, my objective is to produce pieces for utilitarian purposes that convey a sense of tradition while allowing new concepts and ideas to develop. I get inspiration from the natural environment, creating designs for the home and kitchen that are pleasing both visually and tactilely. My teaching style is to observe each student and assess their individual needs in perfecting our craft. With a BS in Ceramics, Penn State University, I spend my days working in my pottery studio, using the Florida sun to hasten drying while fresh pieces await their first firing!
Holly Jones
Holly’s love of clay began in high school. She bought a potter’s wheel with her HS graduation money & that same wheel is in her home studio in Bonita Springs today. She was a fine art major in college, but she fell in love with geology and became a research scientist and adjunct professor at Indiana University. She earned a BA in Geology and a master’s in public Affairs. She served as a volunteer ceramics tech at Indianapolis Art Center for many years. She’s a trained naturalist, an arborist, a master gardener & a chef. A farm kid at heart, her skills range from things like working with dogs and horses, growing and preserving delicious food, welding, baking bread, hunting fossils & making things. Her works combine elements of nature, and she incorporates indigenous clays she collects while studying soils here in south Florida.
Most recently, she taught Sustainability as an adjunct professor at FGCU in Fort Myers. In summer, she enjoys traveling to see her daughter and sailing on Lake Michigan.
She has a passion for learning and loves to see people (and things) thrive. Working in clay combines her true loves: earth minerals, creating forms, playing in the mud, growing community, and fires.