Craft, Trade, & Manufacturing Courses

Portland, OR

8 Week Advanced Beginner Wheel: Developing Fundamentals

Intermediate

With Sara Hensel

For Advanced Beginner Makers*

This 8 week continuing wheel course is designed for folks emerging from an introductory course! Build on your existing exposure to wheel vocabulary and process by deepening your practice, confidence, and proficiency. Expect in-depth demos, practice exercises, drills, and lots of feedback! We will focus on throwing cups, bowls, and plates, and practice glaze application and greenware surface treatments.

Each week will consist of instructor demos and personal making time. Students will also have full access to the studio during open hours for the duration of their 8 Week course (6am-2am All Days)

Shelf space and 25lbs of clay is provided to each student. Tools and other equipment are available at the studio for communal use.

*Recommended at least one prior wheel class

Course Details

Location8063 SE 17th Ave, Portland, OR 97202, USA

LevelIntermediate

Capacity8 students

instructor info

Sara Hensel

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Languages spoken: English

I earned a BFA in ceramics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2018, where summer opportunities to teach ceramics to youths nurtured an ethic of playful earnestness in my work. Now, as a full time potter and ceramics instructor for adults, I believe a clay practice offers a powerful opportunity to not only develop a technical toolkit, but to also explore our philosophy and intention around making. In my teaching, I emphasize the potency of clay as a medium as well as the ways in which form and surface dovetail to elevate a user's experience of the objects we create. I strive to imbue my work and my introduction with humor, curiosity, and observation, and hope to convey the harvest around and within. Nerd out with me about pottery, vegetable gardening, making music, cooking, D&D, bouldering, and dogs!