Six Thursdays February 23 - March 29  9:30 - 10:30 am Fee: $120 each 6-week session. What could be more fun than a little parent-child bonding while producing your very own work of art? We provide the clay and glaze and you and your child provide the imagination! Our instructor will encourage parent and child in the joy of pinching and coiling clay to make an animal, bowl, or vase (or whatever you dream up!) and then together you and your child will glaze your creations.

Six Thursdays February 23-March 29 4:00 pm -5:00 pm Tuition: $120 Clay is a wonderful medium for young hands and minds to explore as it is easy to manipulate and its transformation from raw material to finished product is amazing to both young and old. This six-week course covers the three basic handbuilding techniques of pinch, coil and slab through hands-on creation of forms that appeal to children. While this course is loads of fun it also slips in important ceramic concepts such as slipping, scoring, wedging and stages of drying. For children in grades K-5.

Eight Mondays 3/5 - 5/7 (No class 4/2 or 4/9) 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tuition: $260 (We have lowered the per class price and extended the number of sessions!) This class will introduce beginners to basic wheel techniques and expand wheel methods and surface decoration for the continuing student. The course will include wedging, centering the clay; throwing a variety of bowl and cylinder forms such as cups and vases; finishing and glazing. This class enables students to evolve at their own level and improve their skill in clay. Class includes Open Studio time.

Eight Mondays March 5 - May 7 (No classes 4/2 and 4/9) 4:00-6:00 pm Tuition $260 The wheel is not the only way to work with clay. For millennium artisans have used handbuilding techniques to create both functional and decorative pottery. We go back to these roots and teach how to use traditional handbuilding techniques such as pinch, slab, coil, tile-making, and slump molding to create contemporary and non-traditional functional and sculptural pottery. All in all it's a new way to explore clay. No experience needed and no experience on the potters wheel needed. Tuition includes Open Studio on Sunday.

Eight Mondays March 5 - May 7  7:00–9:00 pm Tuition: $260 This class is for students who already possess the basic wheel throwing skills and are able to throw more complicated forms. Advanced students are encouraged through instruction and demonstration to perfect their craftsmanship and continue exploration of various surface decoration and firing techniques.

Eight Tuesdays March 6 - May 1 (No  class 4/3)  7:00–9:00 pm Tuition: $260 We have lowered the per class price and extended the number of classes. Instructor Bruce Bowers This class covers a whole lot of territory. Instruction in hand-building, wheel and various glazes and surface decorating techniques. All students enrolled in ceramics classes have access to the Open Studio during the week and a weekend day. Open studio time is perfect to practice what you learn in class.

Eight Wednesdays March 7 - May 2 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Instructor: Allison Jachowski Tuition: $260 (We have lowered the per class price and extended the number of sessions!) This class will introduce beginners to basic wheel techniques and expand wheel methods and surface decoration for the continuing student. The course will include wedging, centering the clay; throwing a variety of bowl and cylinder forms such as cups and vases; finishing and glazing. This class enables students to evolve at their own level and improve their skill in clay. Class includes Open Studio time.

Eight Wednesdays March 7 - May 2 (No class 4/4) Grades 6 - 8 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Tuition: $200 For the first time ever VisArts is offering wheel classes to young adults.  This class will introduce young learners to the basic concepts of wheel throwing: centering, opening and pulling forms. Throwing on the wheel takes time and practise, but it can be well worth the time it demands. Please don't expect a new set of dishes from your budding artists; they will consider themselves a success if they can move past the lump stage! This class will be limited to no more than 4 students so that each can receive individualized attention.

Eight Wednesdays March 7 - May 2 (No class April 4) 7:00-9:00 pm Tuition: $260 Includes 25# of clay and all needed tools. Are you curious about the potter's wheel? Then come and get your hands wet and see what all the hype is about. This eight-week class covers the basics of the wheel and its capability to transform a lump of dirt into a beautiful vessel. You will learn how to prepare/wedge clay for throwing on a wheel. Students will master centerin, opening, and pulling forms to create bowls, cylinders, and vases. In the last two sessions, students will work on trimming and simple glazing techniques that can be applied to leather hard works and glazing of pieces. This class also includes  access to Open Studio.  Open Studio is the perfect time to practice what you learn.

Eight Thursdays 3/8 - 5/3 (No class 4/5)  4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Instructor: Allison Jachowski Tuition: $260 (We have lowered the per class price and extended the number of sessions!) This class covers a whole lot of territory. Instruction in hand-building, wheel and various glazes and surface decorating techniques. All students enrolled in ceramics classes have access to the Open Studio during the week and a weekend day. Open studio time is perfect to practice what you learn in class. 

Saturday March 10 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Tuition: $75.00 includes all materials On the first Thursday students will work in the digital lab and learn how to transfer a photograph from a colored image to a high contrast black and white photo to be used as a transfer to ceramic. On the second Thursday the instructor will demonstrate the transfer process step-by-step and then students will transfer their work onto leather hard tiles. The end product is a fired tile with a personalized transfer. Once this technique is mastered, it opens up a new world of decorative finish for ceramics. Photographs for transfer must be brought in digital form either burned onto a CD or saved on a flash drive. Students MAY NOT bring original printed photographs.

Ten Saturdays 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 pm March 31 - June 16 (No class 4/7 and 5/26) Instructor: Ricardo Pontes Tuition: $180 Model fee extra and to be paid to instructor Express yourself through sculpture. Participants will be introduced to the fundamental principles of scuplture by working with a model and one-on-one instruction. Tuition includes two bags of clay. Model and firing fees are extra.

Six Thursdays April 12 - May 17  9:30 - 10:30 am Fee: $120 each 6-week session. What could be more fun than a little parent-child bonding while producing your very own work of art? We provide the clay and glaze and you and your child provide the imagination! Our instructor will encourage parent and child in the joy of pinching and coiling clay to make an animal, bowl, or vase (or whatever you dream up!) and then together you and your child will glaze your creations.

Six Thursdays April 12 - May 17 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Tuition: $120 Clay is a wonderful medium for young hands and minds to explore as it is easy to manipulate and its transformation from raw material to finished product is amazing to both young and old. This six-week course covers the three basic handbuilding techniques of pinch, coil and slab through hands-on creation of forms that appeal to children. While this course is loads of fun it also slips in important ceramic concepts such as slipping, scoring, wedging and stages of drying. For children in grades K-5.

Thursday, April 12  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Discounted Registration! $30 Learn to roll your own ceramic tile and various surface decorations. Apply your new-found knowledge to your own tile and create a one-of-a-kind tile for your own personal use. We fire the tiles and you return 10 days later for your masterpiece! We will be serving merlot, sparkling water and snacks.

Thursday April 26 7:00–9:00 pm Tuition: $30 In the pottery world it's the wheel that gets all of the attention. VisArts ceramics teachers will show you that handbuilding can be fun and produce lovely results with little or no experience. Working with slabs you will construct and decorate a ceramic pocket hanger. You create, then the instructor will glaze it for you in the color glaze you select and you pick it up 10 days later. You will want to come back and make more, we promise.

Thursday, May 3  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Discounted Registration! $30 Learn to roll your own ceramic tile and various surface decorations. Apply your new-found knowledge to your own tile and create a one-of-a-kind tile for your own personal use. We fire the tiles and you return 10 days later for your masterpiece! We will be serving merlot, sparkling water and snacks.

Six Tuesdays May 8 - June 12 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tuition: $230 This class will introduce beginners to basic wheel techniques and expand wheel methods and surface decoration for the continuing student. The course will include wedging, centering the clay; throwing a variety of bowl and cylinder forms such as cups and vases; finishing and glazing. This class enables students to evolve at their own level and improve their skill in clay. Class includes Open Studio time.

Six Tuesdays May 8 - June 12 (No  class 4/3)  7:00–9:00 pm Tuition: $230 Instructor Bruce Bowers This class covers a whole lot of territory. Instruction in hand-building, wheel and various glazes and surface decorating techniques. All students enrolled in ceramics classes have access to the Open Studio during the week and a weekend day. Open studio time is perfect to practice what you learn in class.

Six Wednesdays May 9 - June13 1 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Instructor: Allison Jachowski Tuition: $230 This class will introduce beginners to basic wheel techniques and expand wheel methods and surface decoration for the continuing student. The course will include wedging, centering the clay; throwing a variety of bowl and cylinder forms such as cups and vases; finishing and glazing. This class enables students to evolve at their own level and improve their skill in clay. Class includes Open Studio time.