Private Potter's Wheel Instruction: One or two students (two wheels available)
Beginner: For adults or kids 10 and up: No experience required. Potter's wheel instruction covers
basics of centering and opening clay, making basic bowl, cylinder, cup and plate forms, handle
making and trimming, glazing and slip decoration. Can also include handbuilding projects such as
slab construction, whistle making, coiled and extruded pots. All materials are safe and non-toxic.
Tools, clay, glaze materials and firings are included in fee.
$30/one hour session for one student
$25 each/one hour session for two students working together.
Scheduling is flexible, at one or more classes per week, and can be determined month by month to
accomodate your calendar.
Intermediate: For adults or older kids who have had some wheel instruction and can successfully
center, open and throw. One on one instruction will focus on improving the balance, weight and
design of your pots, attempting new and more complex forms, and perfecting different kinds of lids,
spouts, handles and attachments. Techniques such as throwing closed forms, faceting, surface
design and working in series will be offered, though individual students may choose to design their
own learning experience. Kiln fees and some glazes are included in fee.
$30/one hour session for one student (buy or bring your own clay)
$25 each/one hour session for two students working together (buy or bring your own clay)
Scheduling is flexible, one or more classes per week, determined month to month.
Advanced private mentoring or individual projects: For students who have experience with
clay but would like to refine skills, or wish to undertake a large project and need assistance and
access to equipment. Buy or bring your own clay.. Glazes and firings may involve a materials fee for
large (ie: installation) projects.
$35 per hour for one student
$30/each per hour, two students
Open Studio Hours: Work time and access to wheels and studio equipment, by appointment:
$10/hour
To schedule private classes: Call Kelly at 419-536-5723 or email ksavino@bex.net
Earthworks Studio offers group and private classes. The studio is in a residential
neighborhood near Toledo Botanical Garden, and offers two electric and one treadle wheel,
two
kilns, a slab roller, an extruder, and student shelf and storage space.
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Exploring Women's Experience Through Clay: Join six women, one evening per week, to talk
and laugh and expand your creativity. No clay experience required. We will make Gathering
Vessels and fill them with personal totems; make personal altars to whatever is sacred in our lives.
We will make pebble-shaped rattles full of our own secrets, and build a village of our own
dwellings. Whatever your faith, tradition, or philosophy, your individual expression will be honored
and respected in this class. Bring a friend, or make new friends in class! $18 per session covers clay,
materials, use of tools, firing fees and glazes.
8 week session: Tuesdays 7-9 p.m., December 2, 9, 16, 30 and January 6. 13. 20 and 27.
OR: Have a group already? Call to schedule your own dates and times. Your space or mine..
$144 per student/8 weeks of class
419-536-5723
Scout Merit Badge Opportunities: Individually designed to meet the needs of your boy scout and
girl scout troops. Usually requires two visits and a later pick up of finished projects. Instructor is an
involved mom of two boy scouts, and an assistant girl scout leader. Call to schedule, 419-536-5723
Make a Holiday Candleholder: Throw, extrude or handbuild candleholders with holly-and-berry
accents, as holiday gifts or decorations for your home. Several options will be demonstrated. No
previous experience necessary.
Two part workshop: Monday, December 8 and 15, 6:30-8 p.m. Projects to be picked up after
12/17.
6 student maximum. 419-536-5723
About the instructor: Kelly Averill Savino has an MFA in Ceramics from Eastern
Michigan University. She has taught beginner to advanced classes for adults and
students for several years. She is a columnist for Clay Times Magazine, the moderator
of a large ceramic materials exchange list called Potterbarter, a frequent contributor to
clayart, a Girl Scout troop leader, and the mom of three kids (two homeschooled.) As
a participant in art-in-the-schools program, she has had a full background check and
is skille din working with kids of all ages.
Examples of her work, pottery for sale, class offerings and more are available at
http://www.primalpotter.com