Mud Club
Mud Club meets once a week on Tuesdays Ages 6- 12
4-5:30 Six weeks $185.00 tuition includes all materials/glaze/kiln firing.
Class size limited to 6 artists. Mud Club is for the young artist with an interest in creating fun and functional pottery in a relaxed and welcoming setting. They will create several projects hand-building and with a pottery wheel for five weeks and then glaze in week six. I will instruct them but also encourage the artists to use their imaginations with their own unique ideas. There is ample indoor and outdoor workspace. You will be contacted to pick up your artist’s pottery after it is kiln fired.
Teens
Ages 12 and up
Wednesdays or Thursdays 3:00-5:00
Six weeks $285.00 tuition includes all materials/glazes/kiln firing
Class size limited to 6 artists ages 12 and up
Are your teens looking for a way to express themselves creatively? Clay is a relaxing and therapeutic way to engage with themselves and the outside world. This is a very laid-back class with no pressure to create anything outside of the artist’s desire. They will have creative freedom and be encouraged to create art from the heart.
Adults
Ages 17 and up
Meets once a week on Tuesdays or Thursdays
6:00-9pm $385.00 Six weeks
Includes all clay, glazes, and kiln firing
Working with clay is a great way to relax while making fun and functional pottery for yourself and others. You will have instruction on the pottery wheel as well as hand-building. The studio is well stocked with pottery tools and a library of books.
Open Studio
Open studio is reserved for current students as a make up class or past students or artist with clay and equipment experience.
Please check in by email to create@longpondpotteryshop.com to check availability as it is limited to 4 artists at a time.
Want to try clay before you commit…I do offer a private ” Clay Date Workshop” for couples, friends or parent/ children ( over 7 years old). This is a 2 hour private lesson where you will be instructed to make 3 bowls ( you keep best 2) that will be glazed in a color of your choice and kiln fired. You pick up about three weeks after your visit.
$185.00 a pair
Enrolled students can enjoy an open studio workshop during your enrolled session to finish a project or make up a class.
Wheel Rentals
The best way to get great at pottery is to practice, practice, practice!! We have a few new Shimpo table top wheels that can be rented by the week for $125.00. Wheel rental comes with 10 lbs of clay and loaner tools return your pottery for glaze and firing.
Abandoned Pottery
Pottery that does not get picked up after 30 days will be donated.
Please make every attempt to pick up your art.
“With the mud of the Earth ,make a cup from which your brother can drink”
~ Antonio Machado