Welcome back to ceramics! Comfortable with the basics, and ready to dive more deeply either into wheel throwing or handbuilding? In this class, two cohorts will work side-by-side: a wheel group and a handbuilding group. Please register to join one or the other. Please join this class if you have already taken SVAC’s intro class or have sufficient experience from elsewhere to work somewhat independently. (The Thursday Intro class is perfect for brand-new beginners.)

For handbuilders, Zena will provide individualized instruction, offering refreshers and new ideas for coiling, slab building, slump, and hump molding, along with basic surface design and glazing instruction. Zena will support students focusing on the wheel as you work more intensively on centering, opening up, and pulling. There will also be instruction on trimming.

Each participant will receive 25 pounds of clay included in their class fees. The class fee also includes optional drop-in during available studio hours for self-directed practice.

WHEEL IS CURRENTLY WAITLIST ONLY
PLEASE EMAIL ERIN TO SIGN UP FOR THE WHEEL WAITLIST: EKAUFMAN@SVAC.ORG.
THERE IS STILL SPACE IN HANDBUILDING.
THANK YOU!

About Zena Verda Pesta
Zena is a maker of ceramics, quilts, and supper, a grower of food, nurturer of partnerships and roller dancer. She currently teaches Art, Lifeskills, and Afterschool at Red Fox Community School. She has taught ceramics, social studies, pattern making/sewing, outdoor crafts, fire making, cooking, and other hands-on subjects in preschool and all the way to adult learners. Working with hundreds of artists/designers and educators, Zena has developed curriculum for over 500 workshops. She meets people where they are and values the importance of communication and feedback in a workshop environment. She feels very strongly about the power of hands-on experiential and immersive learning. Zena’s ceramic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been an artist-in-residence in Jingdezhen, China. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, W Magazine, and in Japan. More about Zena’s teaching philosophy, past workshops, and other work: www.soulmagical.com