Youth A GE S 8 - 1 2
Clay Works II: Hand Building/Wheel Throwing
Family Art Day/Art Show Celebration, Shadelands, May 7, 10:00am-2:00pm
Great class for students with clay experience. Work on your
Civic Arts Education
handbuilding skills using soft slabs, coils and pinch pots. Students
welcomes visitors
will learn the basics of throwing on the electric pottery wheel from
to our Family Art
centering to making simple pots. Prerequisite: must have taken
Festival. This free
Clay Play or have clay experience with knowledge of handbuilding
outdoor event features
techniques.
activities for arts enthusiasts of all ages,
LOCATION Youth Art 1, Shadelands Art Center
including live demos,
INSTRUCTOR : Rana Nassar
art-making stations,
$160: 10 classes
Class 30813
Tue
vendors, music and 3:30pm-5:30pm
4/5-6/7
more! The Family Art Festival will take place at Shadelands Art Center – 111 North Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 95498. For more information please contact (925) 943-5846.
INSTRUCTOR : Jessica Brusky $160: 10 classes
Class 30815
Fri
3:30pm-5:30pm
4/8-6/10
A GE S 8 - 1 2
A GE S 1 7 & u p
Fantastical Creatures and Garden Delights
NEW | Ceramic Sculpture: Mixed Media
Create amazing creatures and unusual plants from your
materials to create and complete our sculptures. We will look at
imagination as well as “box turtles’” (a place to hide keys & such),
the historic use of alternative materials in art and will investigate
“fish sticks” that swim through the garden, giant bugs and more!
ways of incorporating a variety of unconventional materials into
These creations can playfully inhabit a garden or they can add
artworks of our own design. We will focus on both pre- and post-
character to your bedroom or home!
firing applications of mixed media, with an emphasis on surface
Students will explore using media other than traditional ceramic
decoration and display.
INSTRUCTOR : Ellen Sachtschale LOCATION Youth Art 2, Shadelands Art Center
INSTRUCTOR : Chris Kanyusik
$144: 9 classes
LOCATION Studio E, Civic Park Studios
Class 30814
Sat
10:30am-12:30pm
4/9-6/11
No class 5/28
$199: 10 classes
Class 30816
Wed
4:00pm-7:00pm
3/30-6/8
No class 4/27
A GE S 1 2 - 1 7
Teen Clay: Wheelthrowing/Handbuilding Beginning to intermediate instruction on the electric potter’s wheel. Instruction and creative opportunity for handbuilding techniques and projects as well. $35 supply fee ($15 tool kit if needed and $20 bag of clay). INSTRUCTOR : Ellen Sachtschale
Ceramics studio information
LOCATION Studio E, Civic Park Studios $160: 10 classes
Class 30803
Thu
No class 4/28
4:30pm-6:30pm
3/31-6/9
Studio use is for instruction and other learning. Work produced or fired in the Civic Arts Ed Ceramics Studio may not be sold except through the Clay Arts Guild and Civic Arts Education. No work produced outside of classes or open studio will be fired. Class and workshop fees include firing. Clay must be purchased in class. Tools and tool kits may be purchased in the studio. Wheel chair accessible electric potter’s wheel available.
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