Sharpening Your Clay Skills with Chin Lin

8 Sundays, 9:30 AM-1:00 PM

Begins July 10, Indoors - Meets in Ceramic Studio

Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced 

Tuition: $400 (Log in for member discount prices)

Materials fee: $85

Description: 

This is a eight weeks class geared for intermediate and advanced potters who wish to improve on their clayworking skills. The main focus of the class is to get the students to have more control of the work they do and increase the success rate of getting the result they seek.  Some of the possible areas to work on would be to increase the range of sizes of your work, and to understand the drying process in more detail. The students will learn the theory of when to do what and the plan of how to achieve their goal. The classes will not be focused on what to make, but how to make.  Both handbuilding and wheelwork skills will be included as part of the class.

Materials fee:

An $85 Clay and Firing Fee will be separately invoiced to students.

Prerequisites: At least one or two semesters of ceramics classes.

Additional notes: 

Basic tools are provided by the studio. Student may wish to purchase their own tools.  Instruction will be provided in first class.

This class is for adults.

About the instructor: 

Chin started pottery in the early 1980's.  In addition to teaching at LexArt, he has taught pottery classes at MIT Student Arts Association, Ceramics Studio at UC Berkeley as well as Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson College over the last thirty years.  Chin is a registered architect by training but his art work has been accepted in the American Craft Council's flagship show at Baltimore for both wholesale and retail shows. In the Ceramics Guild, he is known for making large forms.

Please take a look at our registration policy and our current covid policy before your class.

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