Clay Classes

 

Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: It's Tile Making After All!
Tuesdays, 6-8:30pm. January 24 through February 28
$156/6 sessions plus $30 materials fee.

Learn the art of tile making!
You'll take home a beautiful wall mirror
created in your very own unique style.

This six-session class will place an emphasis on the surface carving of clay. Students will also be exploring a variety of techniques which result in beautiful textural surfaces.

Students will create carved tiles, then create a plaster relief mold that will allow them to make copies by pressing clay into the mold. Students will assemble both bas-relief and slab tiles into a 16 x16 frame to surround a mirror.

For the first class, students should bring images or photos and ideas for what they want to carve and create in tile.

What to bring: a pair of rubber gloves. Everything else you'll need, from the mirror to glazing to hanging device, is included in the materials fee!

Instructor: Brent Bjorngaard

 

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Pottery Wheel Classes

Daytime Pottery Wheel with Brent Bjorngaard
Thursdays, 10am - 12:30pm. February 2 through March 8.
$140/6 sessions plus $36 supplies*, plus firing fees.
What to bring: an old towel!

Whether you're a complete beginner or an accomplished thrower, you'll learn and refine your skills, take completed projects home, and have a blast!

Join a pottery wheel class and let our seasoned and talented instructors introduce you step-by-step to the joys of creating on the pottery wheel. You will get the personal one-on-one help you need to 'get your hands dirty' and move into pottery. Learn and refine the skills of centering, throwing & trimming on the potters wheel. You will learn the basics (even if you're a complete beginner!) of wheel-thrown pottery and develop the skills necessary to throw a pot -and to become a clay studio member if you choose!

Please bring an old towel with you to each class for clean up!

*Your supplies fee includes your own Kemper Tool kit and 25 pounds of clay to get you on your way. Just need some clay? Then the charge is only $16. Firing fees are $3.00 per finished piece and include a bisque firing, glazes, and a glaze firing.

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Pottery Wheel with Amy Cass
Thursdays, 6-8:30pm. February 2 through March 8.
$140/6 sessions plus $36 supplies*, plus firing fees.
What to bring: an old towel!

Whether you're a complete beginner or an accomplished thrower, you'll learn and refine your skills, take completed projects home, and have a blast!

Join a pottery wheel class and let our seasoned and talented instructors introduce you step-by-step to the joys of creating on the pottery wheel. You will get the personal one-on-one help you need to 'get your hands dirty' and move into pottery. Learn and refine the skills of centering, throwing & trimming on the potters wheel. You will learn the basics (even if you're a complete beginner!) of wheel-thrown pottery and develop the skills necessary to throw a pot -and to become a clay studio member if you choose!

Please bring an old towel with you to each class for clean up!

 

Amy Cass received a B.A. in Art Education from the University of Iowa. She taught high school art at Lourdes High School in Rochester, MN. When Amy moved to Sioux Falls, SD in 1985, she spent the next 20 years as a painter specializing in Trompe l’oeil.

In 2003 Amy changed her medium from painting to ceramics. Drawing on her past education and by reverting to the ‘student’ again, she honed her pottery skills. Amy has attended many workshops at the Northern Clay Center, MN and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO. She has studied under Walter Ostrom, U. of Nova Scotia and Ursala Hargens, U. of MN. She is a member of NCECA and MNWCA.

Currently working out of her home studio, Amy sells her utilitarian pottery in retail stores and via her website, amycasspottery.com. She is also working one day/week at Red Wing Stoneware where she is a production potter under the mentorship of Art Gannett.

*Your supplies fee includes your own Kemper Tool kit and 25 pounds of clay to get you on your way. Just need some clay? Then the charge is only $16. Firing fees are $3.00 per finished piece and include a bisque firing, glazes, and a glaze firing.

WOW. If you sign up for a Clay Studio membership during your wheel class,
you will receive $30 off your first two months of membership. Save $60!

More WOW! Register for 2 consecutive wheel classes (12 weeks)
and receive 20 hours of free workshop time in the Clay Studio.

 

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Advanced Level Pottery Wheel with Amy Cass
Thursdays, 6-8:30pm. March 29, April 12 & 26, May 3, 10 & 24.
$148/6 sessions plus $16 (25# clay), plus firing fees.
What to bring: an old towel!

Dive into an eight-week-long adventure exploring advanced pottery wheel techniques with Master Potter Amy Cass. Students must have experience throwing pots, learned in an introductory class or elsewhere, and can count on significant improvements to their skills in this advanced wheel class.

Students should be comfortably proficient at centering on the wheel, building a 6” cylinder, and should have some skill at trimming.

There are six actual classroom sessions, with two Thursday evenings inbetween for independent work in the studio. Students will also have 2 1/2 hours per week of free studio time (during regular shop hours) for practice and trimming (the goal is to have as much time as possible working on throwing during class time). Crossings is open until 8pm on Thursdays.

Amy Cass received a B.A. in Art Education from the University of Iowa. She taught high school art at Lourdes High School in Rochester, MN. When Amy moved to Sioux Falls, SD in 1985, she spent the next 20 years as a painter specializing in Trompe l’oeil.

In 2003 Amy changed her medium from painting to ceramics. Drawing on her past education and by reverting to the ‘student’ again, she honed her pottery skills. Amy has attended many workshops at the Northern Clay Center, MN and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO. She has studied under Walter Ostrom, U. of Nova Scotia and Ursala Hargens, U. of MN. She is a member of NCECA and MNWCA.

Currently working out of her home studio, Amy sells her utilitarian pottery in retail stores and via her website, amycasspottery.com. She is also working one day/week at Red Wing Stoneware where she is a production potter under the mentorship of Art Gannett.

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Pottery Boot Camp! One-Day Wheel Intensives
Sundays, Noon- 6pm. Upcoming sessions: March 4, April 15.
$59 per session.
Crossings Clay Studio members: $49 per session.
Optional: 25 pounds of clay, $16; Kemper Tool kit: $17.90; firing fees: $3.00 per piece.
What to bring: an old towel!

This series of classes is open to students at any level of experience, although some background on the potter's wheel is preferred. The focus is purely on learning to expand your skills on the potter's wheel. Considerable time is spent with demos and explanation, focusing on understanding clay, and also understanding the structural considerations involved in making specific shapes. Much of the class time will be devoted to individual instruction according to students' needs. By popular demand, a new addition to the Boot Camp class will be instruction in trimming.

During the six hour sessions, students can take breaks at their discretion.

Clay for these exercises is supplied at no charge by Red Wing Stoneware and returned afterwards for reprocessing. Students wishing to keep any pots must use their own clay for this purpose. Clay is available for sale at Crossings.

Art Gannett is an instructor at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis. He has been making pots for 30 years. He has studied the ceramic arts at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls and in Germany at the pottery of Wendelin Stahl. Gannett is currently the senior thrower at Red Wing Stoneware, and creates his own work in Pepin, Wisconsin, at the Little Plum Pottery.

 

Cancellation and Refund Policy

We understand entirely that life brings many surprises to us all, and sometimes people must cancel their class reservation.

We sincerely do our level best to accommodate each individual’s request when emergencies arise.

However, if cancellations occur within a week of the class start date, granting a refund frequently means we operate at a loss. Materials have already been purchased, and instructors have agreed to a set minimum compensation.

Please help us continue to offer these wonderful classes, at the most affordable costs possible, by reading and adhering to our cancellation and refund policy:

Class participants who cancel 21 or more days prior to the class start date will receive a 100% refund, and will be charged a $15 cancellation fee.

Class participants who cancel 8-20 days prior to the class start date will receive a 50% refund.

No refunds will be issued 0-7 days prior to the class start date.

 

 

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