Ceramics
Course Description
Welcome to ceramics! Students will learn hand building techniques, surface treatments, and glazing techniques. Slab, pinch, or coil construction can be used to make sculptural or functional pieces. Work independently or follow along to learn new techniques!
This course will introduce students to basic hand building skills, a variety of surface treatments, and glazing techniques. Using the skills they learn, students will be able to choose their projects within each technique, and their own designs for surface treatments, creating useful and beautiful pieces of pottery. Each session will address one type of hand building, as well as basic wheel throwing skills.
- Begin with pinch building and hollow forms, joining clay together, and glaze choice
- Involve slab building, slump and hump molding, tiles, mugs, and handles
- Focus on coil building, both decorative and as a way to build a large piece
- We will also explore the various surface treatments, Mishima, Sgraffito, and Applique
Note: Teacher will email registered students prior to the start of class regarding needed supplies
- Course Title: Ceramics for Adults
- Start Date: 9/23/2026
- End Date: 11/18/2026 (no class on 11/11/2026)
- Day(s): Wednesday
- Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
- Total Weeks: 8
- Total Hours: 12
- Location: Del Campo High School, Room 51
- Enrollment Minimum: 10
- Enrollment Maximum: 18
- Price: $200.00 (Students are responsible for buying supplies)
- Registration Link
Supplies needed: You will need to buy clay and whatever you choose to decorate with. You can do underglazes with clear over or colored glazes, we will learn about these about midway through and you can decide then. Two people could easily share one 25lb bag of clay as well as glazes. One bag of clay for "cone 5 half-and-half" is about $30 at Alpha Fired Arts.
