Handbuilt Stoneware Class 2024

Join stoneware artist, Kathy Kavanagh to learn how to create your own handbuilt stoneware. Rather than using a traditional wheel, you will roll and form clay into decorative obects. This class consists of two sessions: July 13 and July 27. In addition, you will need to pick up your finish piece at the LREF Artists Marketplace at a later date.

• NOTE: This class continues on Saturday, July 27, at 10:00 am.
• This class is about HANDBUILDING (no wheel). 
• On the first Saturday, you create your pieces or pieces. Then Kathy will have two weeks to get them dry and bisque fired so they are ready. to be glazed.
• On the second Saturday, July 27, you will glaze your fired piece. Kathy will then fire them for the second time.
• You will have plenty of stoneware clay to work with and all her tools, molds, leaves, etc. Imagination is the name of the game.
• The class is at Kathy's studio and you will have plenty of space to work. 
• She supplys all the clay, glazes, tools, and kiln time you'll need. You share the slab roller, but will have table space for all manner of creativity!
• After your pottery is glazed and fired for the second time (to stoneware temps-- nearly 2300 degrees), She will take them to the Marketplace at LREF where you can pick them up.
• Please bring your lunch and drinks.
• The class will be held at Kathy's studio, 1 Jesse Landis Lane, Mathias, WV 26812 She will send directions to the studio after you sign up for the class, so we need your email address.