Broaden your wheel throwing techniques and further develop your understanding of the ceramic process. Explore making taller forms, marbling clay, and using slips for surface decorations. Prerequisite: Intro to Wheel Throwing or equivalent experience.
Have you ever wanted to learn what it takes to make your favorite comics? Whether it’s classic funny strips like Peanuts or Garfield, or bombastic action from Marvel and DC comics, then this is the class for you. Learn what it takes to make expressive comics from conception, character design, and laying out an engaging story. Great for beginners who are excited to bring their stories to life. Please bring a USB to class.
Using templates and handbuilding techniques, create your own ceramic beer stein perfect for your favorite tall beverage. You will learn how to create slabs of clay by following a template and incorporate textures to the surfaces to make this interesting functional object! Once fired, pick up your stein at Thorn Alley Kitchen where the second half of the workshop will conclude with a demonstration and tasting with our bartender 1pm Sunday, Nov. 8. Ages 21 and over only. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.
Class will be held in the Ceramics Auxiliary Classroom 301, on the 3rd floor of GoggleWorks.
Take your sewing skills to the next level in this intermediate garment construction class. Learn how to create simple patterns, design your own garments, and turn your ideas into finished pieces. Build confidence in planning, cutting, and sewing clothing that reflects your personal style. You will be asked to purchase your own fabric for projects. Sewing machines and basic tools will be provided in the textiles studio.
Explore the essential techniques for metalsmithing and silver jewelry. We will cut, shape, and join metal with hammer and flame and various other tools. Finish this class with a custom sterling silver pendant and a healthy dose of artistic confidence. Closed-toe shoes are required.
Add some decorations to your home for Halloween or Dia de los Muertos. While the holidays are very different, there is some overlap in iconography. Use the scroll saw (one of the safest, beginner-friendly and most accessible tools in the woodshop) to create skulls, bats, spirits, or anything spooky you feel like designing. You are only limited by your imagination and your ability to cut on the line you put on the piece of wood. A materials fee is due at registration. Closed-toe shoes required.
Crea tu propia decoración para su hogar, perfecta para Halloween o el Día de los Muertos. Aunque ambas festividades son muy diferentes, comparten similitudes en su iconografía. Utiliza la sierra de calar de banco (una de las herramientas más seguras, accesibles y adecuadas para principiantes en el taller de carpintería) para crear calaveras, murciélagos, espíritus o cualquier motivo espeluznante que desees diseñar. Tu imaginación y tu habilidad para cortar siguiendo la línea que marques en la pieza de madera son tus únicos límites. Se requiere el pago de una tarifa por materiales al inscribirse. Es obligatorio llevar zapatos cerrados.
Join us in this hands-on stick welding class and learn the fundamentals of this versatile and popular metal-joining process. Learn proper technique for striking an arc, and how to create clean, structurally sound welds as you work in our heavy metals studio. You’ll gain practical skills to confidently approach projects like repairs, fabrication, and creating metal art.
Flame-resistant clothing, long pants, and heavy closed-toe shoes are required. Class will be held in the Welding Studio, Building 4.
Dive into the art of flameworking in this beginner-friendly beads 101 class! Using a torch and glass rods, you’ll learn how to safely shape, melt, and form your own vibrant glass beads. Wear natural fabrics (cotton not polyester) and tie back long hair while working in the studio.
Create one-of-a-kind home accents like wall pockets, vases, and lanterns using handbuilding techniques such as slab, coil, and sculpting – no wheel required. This multiweek class covers construction, glazing, and finishing, giving you the skills to craft beautiful, functional decor from clay. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty!
Class will be held in the Ceramics Auxiliary Classroom 301, on the 3rd floor of GoggleWorks.
Create your own pair of elegant sterling silver dangle earrings! You will learn fundamental metalsmithing techniques, including sawing, filing, texturing, shaping, drilling, and finishing sterling silver components. Through guided instruction, you’ll design and fabricate a unique pair of earrings that reflects your personal style, whether simple and modern or detailed and decorative. A materials fee is due at registration. Closed-toe shoes are required.
From cutting and positioning the glass to finish firing processes, learn what it takes to create a unique set of four fused glass coasters. Closed-toe shoes required.
