| Classes 2009 |
Private Potter's Wheel Instruction:
Beginning to advanced students can schedule hour long sessions for one on one instruction and coaching on the potter's
wheel. Schedule flexibility means we can meet twice a week or twice a month, different days and times throughout the
calendar, work around vacations, or develop any schedule that will work for you and your budget.
Fee includes: Clay, slip, and class glazes, use of all tools and materials required (we will make some that you can keep),
and all bisque and glaze firings.
(New students should plan to commit to at least five sessions, as clay work is progressive in nature: pots thrown one week must
be trimmed and finished the following, fired once, glazed and fired again.)
One student: $30/session
Two students: $25 each per session
Three students: $20 each per session
Available times include mornings, afternoons and evenings throughout the week.
To schedule, call (419) 536-5723.
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Open Studio Hours: Continuing students can work independently during open studio hours, to be scheduled as fits our
needs. I'll be present and available for questions and opinions, but will be making my own work, and will not have my
teacher hat on!
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Clay Meditations: A Handbuilding Workshop
A five session weekly gathering that is more about process than product. We all have a great capacity for creativity, if we
can let go of judgement and give ourselves permission to try. Drawing on the writings of Paulus Berensohn (Finding
One's Way With Clay) and Julia Cameron ( The Artist's Way ), this evening workshop begins with breathing and body
awareness, quick pinched-form warm up exercises, and projects that allow us to channel creative energy through our
hands, creating symbols and totems unique to our own lives and stories. A small journal for sketches and ideas will be
useful.
Session one: A pebble shaped rattle filled with worries, wishes, prayers or dreams.
Session two: A box to hold a secret. Is it a bright secret, or dark? Will the box open, locked, or permanently sealed? Will you keep
it, when it's done, or sink it in a lake?
Session three: A special bowl to fit your hands, your lips and your purposes.
Session four: A personal altar, as unique as you are.
Session five: A pot luck celebration and pit or raku firing.
Life experience welcome!
Clay experience helpful but not necessary.
Dates: Monday evenings, August 18, 25, September 7, 14, 21
(other evenings/ dates available if session fills!)
Class Limit: 6
Sign up: (419) 536-5723
WORKSHOPS FOR SCOUT TROOPS: By appointment.
Also Available for groups, by appointment: One session or more in depth. Paper making classes, batik, gourd craft, and
other folk arts. Call for more info. Average fee is $20 per person per class, plus supply fee.
Beginning to advanced students can schedule hour long sessions for one on one instruction and coaching on the potter's
wheel. Schedule flexibility means we can meet twice a week or twice a month, different days and times throughout the
calendar, work around vacations, or develop any schedule that will work for you and your budget.
Fee includes: Clay, slip, and class glazes, use of all tools and materials required (we will make some that you can keep),
and all bisque and glaze firings.
(New students should plan to commit to at least five sessions, as clay work is progressive in nature: pots thrown one week must
be trimmed and finished the following, fired once, glazed and fired again.)
One student: $30/session
Two students: $25 each per session
Three students: $20 each per session
Available times include mornings, afternoons and evenings throughout the week.
To schedule, call (419) 536-5723.
_________________________________________________________________________________
Open Studio Hours: Continuing students can work independently during open studio hours, to be scheduled as fits our
needs. I'll be present and available for questions and opinions, but will be making my own work, and will not have my
teacher hat on!
________________________________________________________________________
Clay Meditations: A Handbuilding Workshop
A five session weekly gathering that is more about process than product. We all have a great capacity for creativity, if we
can let go of judgement and give ourselves permission to try. Drawing on the writings of Paulus Berensohn (Finding
One's Way With Clay) and Julia Cameron ( The Artist's Way ), this evening workshop begins with breathing and body
awareness, quick pinched-form warm up exercises, and projects that allow us to channel creative energy through our
hands, creating symbols and totems unique to our own lives and stories. A small journal for sketches and ideas will be
useful.
Session one: A pebble shaped rattle filled with worries, wishes, prayers or dreams.
Session two: A box to hold a secret. Is it a bright secret, or dark? Will the box open, locked, or permanently sealed? Will you keep
it, when it's done, or sink it in a lake?
Session three: A special bowl to fit your hands, your lips and your purposes.
Session four: A personal altar, as unique as you are.
Session five: A pot luck celebration and pit or raku firing.
Life experience welcome!
Clay experience helpful but not necessary.
Dates: Monday evenings, August 18, 25, September 7, 14, 21
(other evenings/ dates available if session fills!)
Class Limit: 6
Sign up: (419) 536-5723
WORKSHOPS FOR SCOUT TROOPS: By appointment.
Also Available for groups, by appointment: One session or more in depth. Paper making classes, batik, gourd craft, and
other folk arts. Call for more info. Average fee is $20 per person per class, plus supply fee.
Earthworks Studio (419) 536-5723
5714 Dennison St., Toledo, Ohio 43615
5714 Dennison St., Toledo, Ohio 43615
Kelly Averill Savino
(419) 536-5723
(cell) (419) 902-6800
(419) 536-5723
(cell) (419) 902-6800
| Private and semi private potter's wheel instruction and classes in clay for all ages, in a creative, non-competitive setting, incorporating the ancient history, rich culture, and fascinating science of clay, glaze and firing. |
| About Earthworks: We build my studio in my back yard, in our neighborhood near Toledo Botanical Gardens. I have four electric potters wheels and one treadle wheel, a slab roller and extruder, three electric kilns and one raku kiln. I am in the process of making my studio wheelchair accessible, and also building a catenary arch soda kiln at a Michigan location. About the Potter: (Me, bragging.) While I have worked in ceramics since college days, I built my first potter's wheel in 1990, from a drawing in a Readers Digest craft book. Since that time, I have studied under nationally known potters and clay artists, learned to build and repair kilns and studio equipment, and fired wood kilns, salt kilns, raku kilns, gas kilns and electrics. I sell my work on line and at art fairs, and have been awarded prizes in national exhibitions. In June of last year I completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Eastern Michigan University, the terminal degree in Ceramics. I have taught for years at the Toledo Potter's Guild, with students ranging from kids to beginner adults to advanced students and juried guild members. I also teach ceramics at Owens College, and write a regular column for Clay Times magazine. . |
Earthworks Directions: From the intersection of
Central Avenue and Holland Sylvania, proceed South on Holland
Sylvania. Dennison Road is just a few blocks down on the left.
My house is on the left side, #5714. Park in the front or in the
driveway, and come through the gate into the back yard. Please
close the gate or my hens will wander the neighborhood!
Central Avenue and Holland Sylvania, proceed South on Holland
Sylvania. Dennison Road is just a few blocks down on the left.
My house is on the left side, #5714. Park in the front or in the
driveway, and come through the gate into the back yard. Please
close the gate or my hens will wander the neighborhood!
