Japanese Pottery and Glazes

Japanese Pottery and Glazes

Adult Multi-Week | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Clay I

Advanced

9/13/2018-11/15/2018

6:00 PM-8:30 PM EDT on Th

$220.00

$198.00

$10.00

$50.00

Learn to make traditional Japanese forms including yunomi and chawan tea vessels, sake sets, ikebana, single-flower vases and more. Glaze them using Japanese glazes, such as shino, ash, tenmoku, celadon, chun and nuka white. We’ll focus on ceramic subtleties that the greatest potters in the world have borrowed from Asian aesthetics. Students will design their own glaze through several rounds of testing and will mix a bucket of their customized glaze at the end.

  • Prerequisite: a beginner clay class or comparable experience. Students must be able to center 4-5 pounds of clay. All necessary materials and equipment are provided. Each student receives 25 lbs of clay; additional clay is available for purchase.
  • Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
Coppage, Ryan

Ryan Coppage has made pottery for 15 years, starting with an art minor and perpetuated by frequent adoption by art programs during his graduate chemistry work. As current chemistry faculty at the University of Richmond, he enjoys developing glazes, publishing glaze tech articles in Ceramics Monthly, and fussing over academic aesthetics of ceramics. Ryan teaches a Japanese ceramics class at VisArts that includes glaze design projects. He also makes too many pots. Website: www.ryancoppage.com