About This Course
A professional track for serious makers. Throw large-scale vessels, mix and test your own glazes, and load, fire and unload real kilns alongside working potters.
The second half turns to studio practice: photographing work, pricing, commissions, markets and showing. Graduates leave with a coherent body of work and a firing log of their own.
What is covered: large-scale throwing, glaze chemistry and testing, kiln loading and firing, studio photography and pricing, commissions, markets and exhibiting.
What Your Fee Covers
- Stoneware clay, implements & aprons
- On-site glazes & kiln firings
- Close groups — capped at eight
- Completion certificate included
Month at the Wheel
How Your Four Weeks Unfold
Wedge & Center
Prepare the clay, find the middle of the wheel and raise your first cylinders with the instructor beside you.
Pull & Shape
Open, lift and curve the walls into cups and bowls, learning to read thickness by touch.
Trim & Finish
Turn leather-hard ware, carve foot rings, attach handles and sign your bases.
Glaze & Fire
Layer studio glazes on bisque ware and join firing morning — collection follows in about three weeks.