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April 10–May 22
Mondays, 3:30-5:30pm
7 weeks, $350
ages 12 and up
taught by Mia Masucci

Learn the techniques of professional potters, including how to make functional pieces -- mugs, vases, bowls, etc. This teen wheel session is 7 weeks for $350 and includes clay and glazes. Firing Fees are additional (5 cents per cubic inch), tallied at the end of each month. Due to space limitations, we cannot offer make-up or drop-in classes. There is a $20 refund/cancellation fee. No refunds after the course has begun.

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Saturday, February 11, 2023
Hand Building workshop: 6–8pm
Wheel Workshop: 6:30–8:30pm
Cost: $200 per couple

Try something new with someone you love. Enjoy a two hour workshop of guided instruction in either hand building or wheel throwing. No experience necessary. We will glaze your finished work of art and it will be ready for pick-up four to six weeks later.

Wine will be available to toast your Valentine.

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ages 7 and up
January 10–March 7
Tuesdays, 4–5:15pm
8 weeks, $400

Pinch, roll, coil, or flatten to make functional or sculptural pieces. The children will learn the basic hand building techniques with enough guidance to inspire his or her unique creativity. Project ideas are presented by the teacher at each class, but are open-ended, always keeping the children's individual interests in mind.

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A one-day intensive workshop with Jesse Pape
Monday, October 10, 2022
11:30AM–4:30PM  ·  Cost: $175

Break out of your comfort zone and bump up your throwing skill in this one-day intensive workshop. Join a small group of experienced wheel throwers for a series of challenging throwing exercises that will improve your mastery on the potter’s wheel.

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A two-part workshop at Mud Matters on Wednesday, March 16 and Wednesday, March 30 • 2–5 pm.

Join Barbara Stone in examining ways to enhance the mugs you make. The first session will focus on the form itself and the second, two weeks later, will examine trimming, decoration, and handle making.

Basic throwing skills required. Greenware pieces can be taken home. If you want your pieces bisque fired at Mud Matters, we will charge 5 cents per cubic inch/piece. Bisqued pieces will be ready for pick up about 2–4 weeks later.

$150 for both sessions

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Please join us for an examination of the history, meaning and making of Japanese Tea Bowls (Chawans). These classic shapes are the centerpiece of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Their shape and aesthetic has accompanied the evolution of Japanese ceramics for centuries and have later had a strong impact on many American potters.

This will be a three-part series:

Two free 30 minute (with time afterwards for questions) online lectures February 18 and February 22 at 12:30pm.

The in-person workshop will be on March 9th from 12:30–4:30 pm.

The online lectures and workshop will be led by Nessim Cohen, a ceramist and art critic specializing in the history of Japanese ceramics, tea wares, and tea ceremony.

The first lecture, on Friday, February 18th, 12:30pm, will be about the origin of the tea bowl (chawan) and the Raku family, the first dynasty of ceramists dedicated to the making of chawans for the Japanese tea ceremony.

The second lecture, on Tuesday, February 22nd, 12:30pm, will be about Wabisabi, the philosophy and aesthetic movement behind the technique of making raku tea bowls. 

On March 9th, Nessim will be teaching the art of creating ceramic tea bowls. An accomplished ceramicist, he will demonstrate and describe several traditional approaches to hand building these classic forms before assisting the participants in making their own tea bowls. ($100/participants. $15/piece for us to bisque fire).

While one session will follow logically from the one or ones before, you need not sign up for all.

We invite you to join us and discover how to make your own teabowls.

Register for Workshop at Mud Matters to Create Chawans on March 9

Register for Online Lecture - February 18th at 12:30pm

Register for Online Lecture - February 22 at 12:30pm