Wheel-thrown Pottery

(Any skill level for adults 18 years and older)

Winter 2025!
Register before January 3rd.

Course Description

This is an intensive course.

Here’s the truth about wheel-thrown pottery in the 21st century:

Wheel thrown pottery is a discipline that takes many hours, days, weeks, months and years to master, and mastering means the ability to control all aspects of this technique with fearless tenacity. Wheel-thrown pottery requires one to possess fortitude, patience and persistence.

The attitude towards wheel thrown pottery as taught here at this academy is a very serious approach that requires the students’ ability to grasp the many steps instructed in order to work independently with a measure of control of the wheel process. Work produced in this course must meet strict requirements in order to be finished in the academy’s kilns; that being properly formed, trimmed and well balanced. Students will be taught the basics of forming three principle shapes, cylinders, bowls and plates, with modest shaping alterations in creating more specific functional forms.

There are many moving parts in mastering the skills to make pottery on the wheel, and the wheel itself is just one of them. All the other moving parts required to work in perfect harmony with clay are on the human side of the machine. To grasp the feel for that harmony is the gap between teaching and learning. The gap that can only be grasped through the trying. The trial and error required in this process will thoroughly test your self esteem. Instruction is thorough and detailed from a mechanical and scientific point of view.

View Costs Explained

10 Week Wheel Courses

$1250 Tuition at the point of registration.