Kids (7 to 12) will have a great time with making their first bowl on the pottery wheel.  This is a one time class for kids. Everything provided.  With teacher guidance, have an exciting experience learning the pottery wheel and learning the steps to making a bowl, plate, or vase.  It's a one day event so kids choose their glaze and then come back later to pick their item up when they are fired.  Sign up now.  It's Sunday June 1 from 1:30 to 3:30.

This one month course introduces students to the basics of throwing on the potter's wheel.Your instructor will cover technique, trimming, and glazing application.  This includes wedging, centering, cylinders, bowls, and surface decoration.  All levels of beginners from first time students to advanced beginners.  Small class size is like having your own coach.  Class includes clay, all tools, and firing.

• 5 week session, Sundays 4:30 pm to 6:30pm
• Class dates: June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
• Location: ClayArt West, 315 N. Alta Vista Ave., Monrovia, CA
• Instructor: Jane McClure
• Contact: Emilie Parker 240-350-8533

Have a lot of fun and let your creative side delight you. Each person will have the option to make creative functional items such as bowls and cups as well as simple expressive clay sculpture with instructor guidance.  Classes are designed to be repeated in order for students to develop skills and confidence. Tools and equipment are provided.  

• Class dates: June 4, 11, 18 -- 10am to 12pm
• Location: 315 N. Alta Vista Ave., Monrovia, CA
• Instructor: Emilie Parker, Phone 240-350-8533

* Any missed classes can be made up on any Wednesday evening.

Have a lot of fun and let your creative side delight you. Each person will have the option to make creative functional items such as bowls and cups as well as simple expressive clay sculpture with instructor guidance.  Classes are designed to be repeated in order for students to develop skills and confidence. Tools and equipment are provided.  

• Class dates: June 5, 12, 19 -- 6pm to 8pm
• Location: 315 N. Alta Vista Ave., Monrovia, CA
• Instructor: Emilie Parker, Phone 240-350-8533

* Missed classes can be made up on Wednesday evenings in subsequent months. 

Kids (7 to 12) will have a great making pottery on the pottery wheel every Sunday in June at 1:30. Everything is provided.  With teacher guidance have an exciting experience learning the pottery wheel. We will make dishwasher safe items that the family will use.  It's a month long class so kids will learn glazing as well.  You will come back later to pick them up when they are fired.  Sign up now.  It it's held 4 Sundays from 1:30 to 3:30, June 8, 15, 22, 29.

At this 5 day workshop for adults from 10 to 4 every day for a week plus Sunday night, you'll have fun learning the pottery wheel, creativity, new techniques, field trips and building your skill.  You'll get as much practice time as you need to really improve your skill -- hours of coached wheel time every day for 5 days -- making plates, large bowls, altered wheel shapes.  Learning and practicing centering, pulling, collaring, shaping trimming, drying and recycling.   Mornings are spent working with teacher's help on wheel skill-building or learning the wheel for the first time.  A healthy and delicious lunch is included.  Afternoons include fun creative extensions of your skills such as creating a crackeled surface, wheel based scrifitto, throwing large using coils on the wheel.  We'll also be experiencing the Huberman creativity exercises, go on a field trip to the American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Santa Monica Beach, and a demo of throwing large by guest artist Zac Hould. The class size is limited to 6 people and each will have a wheel.  There are several good hotels within 2 miles on Huntington Drive near 5th St. in Arcadia.  Transportation to and from the hotels or airbnb's is provided.  A packing and shipping service will be available for completed work. Call 240-350-8533 for more details.

Retreat starts Sunday, June 22rd at 7pm and goes until 4pm on Friday June 27th.

• At this 6 day workshop for adults from 9 to 4 every day for a week plus Sunday night, you'll have fun learning the pottery wheel, creativity, new techniques, field trips and building your skill.  You'll get as much practice time as you need to really improve your skill -- hours of coached wheel time every day for 5 days -- making plates, large bowls, altered wheel shapes.  Learning and practicing centering, pulling, collaring, shaping trimming, drying and recycling.   Mornings are spent working with teacher's help on wheel skill-building or learning the wheel for the first time.  A healthy and delicious lunch is included.  Afternoons include fun creative extensions of your skills such as creating a crackeled surface, wheel based scrifitto, throwing large using coils on the wheel.  We'll also be experiencing the Huberman creativity exercises, go on a field trip to the American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Santa Monica Beach, and a demo of throwing large by guest artist Zac Hould. The class size is limited to 6 people and each will have a wheel.  Call 240-350-8533 for more details.

Retreat starts Sunday, June 22rd at 7pm and goes until 4pm on Friday June 27th.

Have a lot of fun and let your creative side delight you. Each person will have the option to make creative functional items such as bowls and cups as well as simple expressive clay sculpture with instructor guidance.  Classes are designed to be repeated in order for students to develop skills and confidence. Tools and equipment are provided.  

• Class dates: July 9, 16, 23, 30 -- 10am to 12pm
• Location: 315 N. Alta Vista Ave., Monrovia, CA
• Instructor: Emilie Parker, Phone 240-350-8533

* Any missed classes can be made up on any Wednesday evening.