Handbuilding for the Garden

$870.00

Full

Clay

Brasstown

Week (Sunday-Saturday)

Ages

Aug

Sun

Aug

Sat

04:00

09:00

Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week

Schedule Description: Daily

Sessions: 7

Session Hours: 7.00

Program Area: Clay

Instructor: Zan Barnes & Karen Barnes

Studio/Location: Clay Studio

Student Materials: Please bring the following: Any personal tools you'd like to bring (please label with your name or initials) No need to buy a tool kit--the instructors and studio will provide any tools we will need 1-2 work towels Work apron, if desired, or clothes you can get dirty Packing material to transport your pieces home

School Fee & Materials: FOLK SCHOOL FEE: $36-72 Highwater Little Loafers or similar white cone 6 clay body will use studio glazes

Instructor Materials: Instructor fee: $25 Specialty tools Project templates Decorative stencils and slips Non-clay project materials

Equipment Needs: Ice water brought to studio Basic tools, sponges, etc. Kilns

Skill Level: All levels

Total Materials Fees: $61-$97

Clay Studio
1 FOLK SCHOOL RD
BRASSTOWN, NC 28902-8008

Description

Use the garden theme to introduce handbuilding skills that allow creativity in clay without the demands of wheel-throwing. Work with slabs, coils, and pinch pots to make beautiful and useful garden pieces, from herb markers and gnomes to cute critters and wind chimes. Explore decorative techniques to make each project unique and glaze work to turn earth into forever decorations for your favorite outdoor space. Cone 6 glaze firing as time allows.

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Use the garden theme to introduce handbuilding skills that allow creativity in clay without the demands of wheel-throwing. Work with slabs, coils, and pinch pots to make beautiful and useful garden pieces, from herb markers and gnomes to cute critters and wind chimes. Explore decorative techniques to make each project unique and glaze work to turn earth into forever decorations for your favorite outdoor space. Cone 6 glaze firing as time allows.

$61-$97

Karen Barnes married into pottery in 1982 and had a very practical education in the studio as she assisted husband Brant. In 1995, Karen and Brant took over Riverwood Pottery in Dillsboro, NC, for a 25-year residency of selling pottery in an open studio setting and teaching classes statewide. A few years later, they were joined by their daughter Zan. Karen has been a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 2018 and has been teaching at the Folk School since 2008, specializing in beginning clay instruction.

Zan Barnes received her MFA in ceramics at the University of North Texas in 2014, and is a member of the Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Piedmont Craftsmen, and Carolina Designer Craftsmen. She is a studio potter at Riverwood Pottery in Dillsboro, North Carolina, and teaches and demonstrates throughout western North Carolina.

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