Join Jerry Bennett, a leading international paper clay artist, as he guides you through how to make paper clay and bonding slips for hand-built forms. This course expands your understanding of this unique material by adding various clay fibers to create functional pottery and sculptural forms. Gain valuable insights as Jerry shares practical, problem-solving advice related to your studio work, such as fixing broken work and preventing cracks. This is an introductory class in Paper Clay, adding cellulose-based fibers to wet clay to improve the workability of the clay and lessen many of the problems associated with hand building. This class will use various material techniques, including paper clay, decorating techniques including underglaze techniques, textures, colored slips, and glaze applications.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jerry Bennett
Cost: $585
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Want to make a couple of really cool pots this session? In this workshop style class, we will be exploring multi-piece pots that will be a combination of wheel thrown sections, hand-built sections and a variety of surface design techniques to complete larger pots. We will be focusing on, designing our pots, building each section, adding coils, slabs, carving and finishing with stains and glazes. This class is designed to elevate your pottery into eye catching works of art. Class tuition includes your first bag of stoneware clay as well as glazes and firing fees for coursework completed in class. Prior wheel throwing experience is required.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Eva Hozinez
Cost: $585
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Bring your creativity and ideas into the studio! In this class we will be creating functional and non-functional pieces with an added flair. Projects will be wheel thrown to start, then altered, trimmed, and finished with handbuilding. Turn your plates into birdbaths, your mugs into face mugs, and your candlestick holders into goblets. The possibilities are endless. This class is for beginner to advanced level skills. Your first bag of stoneware clay plus glazing and firing fees for pieces completed as part of your coursework are included.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Veronica McLaughlin
Cost: $585
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Satisfy your curiosity about clay! Come get your hands dirty in this fun and thorough introduction to throwing pots on the pottery wheel. What have you always wanted to make? Coffee mugs, bowls, a decorated plate or vases. You will have the opportunity to learn the skills required to make these wheel thrown forms. Each student will receive a 25 lb bag of clay included in the price of the class. Additional clay may be purchased after that. Tools are available for purchase from the center, or you can bring your own tools. After throwing pots you’ll learn how to decorate and glaze your ceramic work for the final firing. Wear old clothes or a smock……throwing is dirty but fun!
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Peter Murray
Cost: $585
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Bring your young artists to join us in the ceramics studio as we learn various hand-building methods for creating and decorating ceramic masterpieces. Each week's project will include a method of constructing clay by hand (pinch, coil, slab, etc.) and plenty of opportunities for self-expression and experimentation. After students construct a clay piece and paint it with colorful glazes, projects will be fired in electric kilns. Students should bring their imagination and be prepared to get messy as we dive into the world of functional and sculptural ceramics. This is a 9-week, 1.5 hour, after school class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Carolyn Coyle
Cost: $245
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Throw yourself into the art of making pottery! Learn hand-building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills in this popular ceramics class while creating functional and sculptural forms. Spend the first few days building your pieces, then experiment with design and colorful glazes. This is a 7-week, 1.5 hr. after-school class held on Tuesdays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Shannon Wolsky
Cost: $245
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

This is an introductory class in formulating, making, and using glazes for your work. Why make/formulate your glazes? Using other people’s recipes for your glazing runs contrary to your best needs as an artist; control of your materials and the look/identity of your work. Other advantages include cost, fit, and durability of the ware and the uniqueness and beauty of your glazes. We will focus on developing glazes free of defects and teach you how to correct those that occur, such as crazing. The goal of this class is to improve your glazing! We will work on glazes together in the early classes. Each student will then, with oversight, develop variations and personal glazes. Please bring an M95 dust mask.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jerry Bennett
Cost: $585
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Join Jerry Bennett, a leading international paper clay artist, as he guides you through how to make paper clay and bonding slips for hand-built forms. This course expands your understanding of this unique material by adding various clay fibers to create functional pottery and sculptural forms. Gain valuable insights as Jerry shares practical, problem-solving advice related to your studio work, such as fixing broken work and preventing cracks. This is an introductory class in Paper Clay, adding cellulose-based fibers to wet clay to improve the workability of the clay and lessen many of the problems associated with hand building. This class will use various material techniques, including paper clay, decorating techniques including underglaze techniques, textures, colored slips, and glaze applications.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jerry Bennett
Cost: $585
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Throw yourself into the art of making pottery! Learn hand-building, wheel throwing, and glazing skills in this popular ceramics class while creating functional and sculptural forms. Spend the first few days building your pieces, then experiment with design and colorful glazes. This is a 9-week, 1.5 hr. after-school class held on Wednesdays.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Susan Branco
Cost: $245
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Bring your young artists to join us in the ceramics studio as we learn various hand-building methods for creating and decorating ceramic masterpieces. Each week's project will include a method of constructing clay by hand (pinch, coil, slab, etc.) and plenty of opportunities for self-expression and experimentation. After the students construct a clay piece and paint it with colorful glazes, projects will be fired in electric kilns. Students should bring their imagination and be prepared to get messy as we dive into the world of functional and sculptural ceramics. This is a 9-week, 1.5 hour class. Please note: No Class on Saturday, October 12, 2024.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Nicole Lee
Cost: $245
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

For older and more advanced ceramic students, participants work in the ceramics studio, where they learn and develop hand-building and wheel-throwing skills. Participants have an opportunity to examine works from more advanced artists, before using artist grade tools and equipment to create their own handmade pieces. Instruction is tailored to each student's individual ability and needs. This is a 9-week class.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Veronica McLaughlin
Cost: $245
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

This hand building course is appropriate for beginners and advanced students. Demos on the three major hand building techniques coils, slabs and pinching will prepare students to discover and develop their own unique approach to working with clay, embracing and mastering a particular method or combination of techniques unique to each student. There will also be two pit firings, offering an alternative means of finishing the work. Tuition includes the first bag of stoneware, glazing and firing of coursework.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Jimmy Clark
Cost: $485
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! Join us for an afternoon of clay together with your child to create a fun cauldron shaped candy dish. Learn the basics of working with kiln-fired clay and colorful glazes while you make one dish together with your child. If you each want to create your own Cauldron Dish, please register yourself and each child separately. All works created will be fired and ready for pick up approximately two weeks from the date of the workshop.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michelle Schamis
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Learning to create your very own mandala on a ceramic plate is a fun and fantastic way to dive into the world of art. With Yulia Drozdova’s step-by-step Mandala Art Class, you can create your own mandala designs with unique point-to-point techniques. She will guide you from start to finish, helping you understand the magical aspect of various colors, shapes, and points. Yulia Drozdova is a renowned artist whose work has been featured in art galleries in Texas. She is known for creating captivating mandala plates in a point-to-point technique that embodies an elaborate set of emotions through complex patterns and distinctive colors. All supplies are provided.
 
Location: Bryan, Texas
Instructor: Yulia Drozdova
Cost: $35-55
Sponsor: Degallery
Website, email, +1(979)704-3090

Leaves are falling, breezes are blowing, and pumpkins are ripening! Join us for an afternoon of clay together with your child to create an autumnal pumpkin shaped pot. Learn the basics of working with kiln-fired clay and colorful glazes while you make one pot together with your child. If you each want to create your own Pumpkin Pot, please register yourself and each child separately. All works created will be fired and ready for pick up approximately two weeks from the date of the workshop.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michelle Schamis
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

It's beginning to look a lot like the Holidays! Join us for an afternoon of clay together with your child to create a Holiday Coil Tree with a star (or anything you want) on top. Learn the basics of working with kiln-fired clay and colorful glazes while you make one tree together with your child. If you each want to create your own Holiday Coil Tree, please register yourself and each child separately. All works created will be fired and ready for pick up approximately two weeks from the date of the workshop.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Michelle Schamis
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553