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Perfect your bowl skills so you can make your own SUPER BOWL!

Sunday, February 12, 2023
10:30am–1:30pm
Fee: $150

Join a group of other experienced potters on Super Bowl Sunday who want to up-their-game when it comes to making beautiful bowls. Marianne Kerry will lead this 3 hour workshop on February 12th. Learn how to make bowls you love — by design, not by default.

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A two-part workshop at our sister studio Mud Matters on Wednesday, March 16 and Wednesday, March 30, 2–5 pm.

Join Barbara Stone in examining ways to enhance the mugs you make. The first session will focus on the form itself and the second, two weeks later, will examine trimming, decoration, and handle making.

Basic throwing skills required. Greenware pieces can be taken home. If you want your pieces bisque fired at Mud Matters, we will charge 5 cents per cubic inch/piece. Bisqued pieces will be ready for pick up about 2–4 weeks later.

$150 for both sessions

Register now for Get a Handle on Your Mugs Workshop

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Please join us for an examination of the history, meaning and making of Japanese Tea Bowls (Chawans). These classic shapes are the centerpiece of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Their shape and aesthetic has accompanied the evolution of Japanese ceramics for centuries and have later had a strong impact on many American potters.

This will be a three-part series:

Two free 30 minute (with time afterwards for questions) online lectures February 18 and February 22 at 12:30pm.

The in-person workshop will be at Mud Matters on March 9th from 12:30–4:30 pm.

The online lectures and workshop will be led by Nessim Cohen, a ceramist and art critic specializing in the history of Japanese ceramics, tea wares, and tea ceremony.

The first lecture, on Friday, February 18th, 12:30pm, will be about the origin of the tea bowl (chawan) and the Raku family, the first dynasty of ceramists dedicated to the making of chawans for the Japanese tea ceremony.

The second lecture, on Tuesday, February 22nd, 12:30pm, will be about Wabisabi, the philosophy and aesthetic movement behind the technique of making raku tea bowls. 

On March 9th, Nessim will be teaching the art of creating ceramic tea bowls. An accomplished ceramicist, he will demonstrate and describe several traditional approaches to hand building these classic forms before assisting the participants in making their own tea bowls. ($100/participants. $15/piece for us to bisque fire).

While one session will follow logically from the one or ones before, you need not sign up for all.

We invite you to join us and discover how to make your own teabowls.

Register for Workshop at Mud Matters to Create Chawans on March 9

Register for Online Lecture - February 18th at 12:30pm

Register for Online Lecture - February 22 at 12:30pm

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Check out our upcoming course schedule.

Courses are 7 weeks long and meet once a week for 3 hours. For the beginner to the advanced, our classes are for all levels. Our faculty are accomplished ceramic artists who have a passion for sharing their knowledge and skills.

Students learn the basic techniques or continue to advance their skills in wheel throwing, hand building, trimming, and glazing. 

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Check out our fall schedule.

Courses are 7 weeks, and meet once a week for 3 hours. For the beginner to the advanced, classes are for all levels. Students will learn or/and continue to advance their skills throwing, trimming, and glazing. Cost: $350, plus additional firing fees. Firing fees are invoiced on a monthly basis and are 5 cents per cubic inch per piece that you fire.