Extruded Clay Forming
(adults 18 years and older)
Winter 2025
Course Description
The extruder is a tool that can make forms not possible on the potters wheel. It has industrial roots creating forms in every material imaginable. The extruder for clay however, is special because in allows the clay to take on wonderful unintended gestural postures in spite of it’s being forced through a rigid die pattern. The clay always speaks when extruded.
Using the wealth of the academy’s die collection, an infinite array of forms both functional and sculptural are moments away, and bypassing the tedium of traditional hand-building techniques, like slab-building, coiling, and pinch-forming.
The extruder is an architects or designers dream machine, but then, you could just be someone ready for a new challenge.
$1250 Tuition + $200 materials deposit at the point of registration.
Prerequisite required: Students must have taken both our Intro to Hand-Building Course and Wheel-Thrown Pottery Course at least once to register.
Group class (4) min/max students only
Tuesdays 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dates: Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28. Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25. Mar. 4, 11.
Wednesdays 10:30am - 12:30pm
Dates: Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29. Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26. Mar. 5, 12.
accepting registrations
All tools supplied
Instructor: Frank Bosco
