Learn to make polymer beads! Once you learn a few techniques you will be able to create custom beads and other polymer creations that you can cure at home. Use them to make jewelry, bottle stoppers, tiny characters/animals/sculptures, buttons, doll house accessories...etc. All supplies are included in the cost! Just bring yourself and be ready to have a great time!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Jami Wright
Cost: $70
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Ever wanted to try your hand at throwing clay on the wheel? Want to make a cup or bowl that you can proudly call your own? One-on-One lessons are a perfect way for students of all levels, even beginners, to gain experience and learn to elevate you work using additive and subtractive techniques to modify your forms. Sign up for private, one-on-one wheel lessons with Art League instructor and local potter, Jami Wright. Call Art League Academy to schedule a time that works for you! Students should bring $25 cash for materials the day of the lesson, which will be provided for you by the instructor.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Jami Wright
Cost: $60
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Learn to make polymer beads! Once you learn a few techniques you will be able to create custom beads and other polymer creations that you can cure at home. Use them to make jewelry, bottle stoppers, tiny characters/animals/sculptures, buttons, doll house accessories...etc. All supplies are included in the cost! Just bring yourself and be ready to have a great time!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Jami Wright
Cost: $70
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Learn to make polymer beads! Once you learn a few techniques you will be able to create custom beads and other polymer creations that you can cure at home. Use them to make jewelry, bottle stoppers, tiny characters/animals/sculptures, buttons, doll house accessories...etc. All supplies are included in the cost! Just bring yourself and be ready to have a great time!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Jami Wright
Cost: $70
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Make your own ceramic flower planter! No experience needed. In this easy workshop, you will learn to use the slab roller, texture molds, and how to attach cut-out pieces of clay to build ceramic boxes and trays. At the conclusion of this session, you may leave your product to dry and be bisque fired. The instructor will arrange a time for you to return to glaze work and then to collect the finished product. Materials fee includes clay, glazes, and all firings.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Katie White
Cost: $80
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, 608-987-3292

Join Chicago artist Laura Williams to create charming cups, bowls, plates, lidded jars, spoons, vases and teapots using the handbuilding methods of pinching and coiling. This course is ideal for those with a bit of handbuilding experience, but it’s an option for newcomers to practice simpler forms. Using commercial underglazes and slips, we will decorate the outside of our functional wares. Favorite wares will be clear glazed, fired and, if needed, shipped. If local, you can arrange for pick up at the studio. $5 per piece for both firings (bisque and glaze) paid directly to Globe Clay Center. Shipping is an additional fee. Instagram: @lauramakesthingz Materials fee includes clay and studio tool use.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Laura Williams
Cost: $270
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, 608-987-3292

Do you have some experience throwing pottery, but want to ratchet up your skill set — centering more efficiently, working larger, or mastering new shapes? Join Joe from Windy Ridge Pottery to refine and expand your throwing techniques during this highly personalized process-oriented workshop. Along with working on the wheel, we will spend the weekend exploring spouts, lids, and handles, and looking at examples of outstanding ancient and contemporary pots. Clay is provided.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Joe Cole
Cost: $335
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, 608-987-3292

Gain experience with the great tool of the potter’s wheel. Demonstrations will include wheel throwing, building off the wheel, and a variety of decoration techniques, including slip-decorating, stamp-making, stamping, and some others. Come, experiment, work with earthenware clay, and share ideas. Personalized instruction will enhance your learning experience. You will take home a group of bisque-fired pieces showing your exploration in clay and a collection of new skills. Guadalupe Lanning Robinson – Studio Ceramics Apprentice, Centro de Artes Plasticas Independencia, Mexico City, Mexico. Currently, Guadalupe has a studio at Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment Center in Railroad Room 1. To view some of her artwork and biography, visit guadalupepots.com.
 
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Instructor: Guadalupe Lanning Robinson
Cost: $400 Museum members/ $425 non-members
Sponsor: Huntsville Museum of Art
Website, email, 256-535-6372

If you love to collage or are even entirely new to it, this welcoming class will enhance your creativity by allowing you to add depth and texture to your colorful designs. Working within cradled panels, we will collage and paint the background, adding embossed ceramic elements to our compositions to create our own unique works. The ceramic tiles, of varied sizes and shapes, have already been fired, allowing you to stain, paint, or antique them as you like to enhance the depth of your creation. Materials fee includes a cradled board and a generous assortment of unique ceramic pieces.
 
Location: Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Instructor: Gail Willert
Cost: $145
Sponsor: Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
Website, email, 608-987-3292