ONSITE: Advanced Wheel + Hand Building Techniques

ONSITE: Advanced Wheel + Hand Building Techniques

Adult Multi-Week | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Clay I

Advanced

1/10/2022-2/21/2022

6:30 PM-9:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$170.00

$153.00

$5.00

$40.00

Learn new techniques to improve your functional and non-functional ceramic forms. Try raku, cone 10 reduction glazes and soda firing. Learn new surface design processes using slips, underglazes, terra sigillata and the spray booth application of both underglazes and overglazes.

  • Prerequisite: a beginner and intermediate class or comparable experience. All materials and equipment provided. Please bring a positive attitude and a desire to improve and/or grow.
  • You will receive 25 pounds of clay; additional clay is available for purchase.
  • This class does not meet on 1/17.
  • Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
  • Students must follow social distancing protocols and wear masks at all times. For more info visit visarts.org. This is an On-site course. On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program: if interested please visit visarts.org.
Johnson, Alex

Alex Johnson is a studio potter living in Richmond, VA. He specializes in a contemporary interpretation of the functional pottery canon, exploring the centuries old and culturally diverse desire to transform soft clay into hard, utilitarian objects full of personal meaning. For the past 19 years he has teamed up with Mike Brown as Tree Hill Pottery, where they have built and fired a number of wood fired kilns.