New! AMELIA Pottery Class at Chester Springs Studio

Animalia: Hands-on class explores the relationship of human and animals in the history of ceramics, and how you can use these symbols and forms in your pottery forms and surfaces.

Animalia with Jeanie Silver

Level: All levels, Limit 10 students
Instructor: Jeanie Silver
Length: 8 Weeks
Dates: Thursdays, Jan.21-March 10
Time: 12:30 – 3:30pm
Location: Clay Studio
Tuition: $228 Member, $248 Non-member
(Includes $50 Materials and Firing Fee)

This class is initiating a new tradition at Chester Springs Studio. Each winter season we will offer a special class that is not presented at any other time of the year. This winter Jeanie Silver is teaching Animalia!

Animals… They’ve been helping us become human for thousands of years.

Bring your ideas for combining animals and clay to this winter afternoon special class. Your goal is to make animated pots and lively animal sculpture. We will use photographs, fables, and our own experience with animals and clay. Using the wheel or hand-building, squirrels can be teapots, turtles are a natural for boxes, and owls can be anything they want. Find out how right here.

Learn specific techniques for building sculptural animal forms, including:

• ball and socket joints
• mortise and tenon construction
• ceramic sculpture for structural integrity

Students will have their choice of working with sculptural forms or with the theme of animals in pottery —surfaces and pottery forms. Discover how artists have explored the relationship of humans and animals in the history of ceramics.

Register now as classes are filling quickly!

Go to: http://yellowsprings.org/classes-workshops/adult-ceramics-classes/