*NEWS*
New classes begin the first week in January
Open Studios: Wednesdays 1 - 4, Fridays 12 - 3
NO CLASSES:
Monday, January 2, 16 or February 20
.Student demo for the
"Saggar-Fire" workshop
TUITION:
Your tuition includes clay, use of our tools and state of the art equipment, instruction, firing and clear glaze.
You will purchase your own colored, (inexpensive) glazes.
WHO CAN ENROLL:
Anyone 17 years and older.
We welcome beginner and advanced clay workers!
IF YOU MISS A CLASS:
You can "make it up" by attending any other class during the same session.
(We can't "roll over" missed classes).
CLASS FEATURES:
- We teach hand-building techniques in an atmosphere free of judgment, expectation or pressure.
- Make what you want to make and we show you how!
- Classes are self-paced.
- A "Candle Circle" during each class encourages mindfulness, relaxation, and creativity. Each person lights a candle silently for a loved one or a personal intention. The Circle sets a "tone" that makes these classes quite special and meaningful.
2012 Class schedule:
Mondays - 5:30 to 8:30 -
Wednesdays - 10:00 to 1:00
Wednesdays - 5:30 to 8:30
Thursdays - 10:00 to 1:00
Fridays - 9:00 to 12:00
Weeks of:
January 1 thru February 19
February 26 - April 15
April 29 - June 10
June 17 - July 29 (classes end first wk in Aug.)
August Open Studios
September 2 - October 21
October 28 - December 16
Please note that due to holidays and other campus closures, the Monday night classes will often be fewer weeks.
Tim Ballingham, instructor
The kiln room with two Skutt automatic electric kilns. We bisque to cone 04 and glaze to cone 06 (earthenware). We also use innovative surface treatments.
OPEN STUDIOS:
Wednesdays: 1 - 4
Fridays: 12 - 3
$10
Available to current students only
Caution, you've entered a clay construction zone
and what you are constructing is you.
Come, seize the journey.
Each turn in the road is a new adventure
that requires you leave the old map
of trepidations behind.
You won't see your world the same again:
the texture on the sole of your shoes,
a pine cone or a simple stick,
a thimble, a button,
a garden tool or a bracelet.
She's a wild horse, this clay,
she's a world in a static bag of moist velvet earth
and her body
will take you to undiscovered planets
hidden within yourself.
She will work on you,
visiting you in your dreams
and greeting you unrelenting in the morning.
She will open your heart
and ask it to be even more accepting
of the differences you notice in others,
and the paradoxes that live within yourself.
Slow down, watch.
Take the curves she throws, mindfully.
Proceed in nano-time,
for what is in front of you
is what you are in the moment.
She holds a mirror, quietly,
without you knowing it.
If you are impatient, she may break.
If you drift or feel inadequate,
she will bare the scars.
She flowers with your respect and caring,
and she tares when you don't.
She is tough love.
She likes to play
and takes the lead when you let her
into unknown places
showing you that her nature is your own
in all your many colors.
She will greet and celebrate your surprises
like a long lost Anam Cara.
She is shy, this Muse within you,
and she travels best
when you suspend your judgments,
blossoming then, shining then --
for all she cares about is you
in the moment,
not what others will think tomorrow.
She is frustration,
surprise and disappointment,
and she will sit with you
until you try again, and then again.
She is the messenger,
and the message is you.
.
Caution, You've Entered a Clay Construction Zone
Copyright 2010 Pamala Ballingham
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2012 CLASS SCHEDULE
Mondays: 5:30 - 8:30, Jan. 9 - Feb. 13 $100 (5 wks)
Wednesdays:10:00 - 1:00, Jan. 4 - Feb. 22 $151 (8 wks)
Wednesdays: 5:30 - 8:30 , Jan. 4 - Feb. 22 $151 ( 8 wks)
Thursdays: 10:00 - 1:00, Jan. 5 - Feb. 23 $151 (8 wks)
Fridays: 9: 00 - 12:00, Jan. 6 - Feb. 24 $151 (8 wks)
NO MONDAY CLASSES: JANUARY 2, 16, FEBRUARY 20
Open Studios - $10
(currently enrolled students only)
Wednesdays: 1 - 4 Fridays: 12 - 3
PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR ALL 2012 CLASSES
