Kintsugi Workshop
Learn a contemporary take on the ancient Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with gold.
Clay Bird Feeder Workshop
Use clay slabs and simple hand tools to make a rustic bird feeder.
Clay Bird Feeder Workshop | February
Use clay slabs and simple hand tools to make a rustic bird feeder.
Potter’s Wheel | Afternoons
Always wanted to try your hand at the potter’s wheel, or maybe you took a class in high school and missed it terribly? Then this is the class for you! Ceramicist Nate Hunter makes the pottery wheel fun and easy, guiding you through the process of forming pots on the wheel—a technical challenge that anyone can try. Have fun, get dirty, relax, and learn a new skill.
Sgraffito Ceramic Plates
Learn the art of sgraffito, which involves scratching designs into underglazed clay to show the contrast between color and the clay body, to create one-of-a-kind designs on a decorative and functional art work. This is a fun way to make a decorative and functional art work for your home!
Ceramic Trees
Make holiday ceramic art for home décor or as a gift! Learn handbuilding techniques and ways to create texture and design. Return to glaze your tree the color of your choice after it has been fired.
Decorative Ceramic Vase
Personalize a ceramic vase of your own design! Learn clay handbuilding techniques and ways to incorporate texture and design. Return to glaze your vase after it has been fired. This is a fun way to make a decorative and functional art form for your home!
Potter’s Wheel Wednesday Workshop | Ages 8–16
Learn to throw pots on the potter’s wheel. This class is great for beginners and return students.
Printmaking + Clay with Paul Andrew Wandless
An introduction to printing on clay using screen and relief printing techniques. Renowned printmaker and ceramicist Paul Andrew Wandless will teach you how to put images into screens without the use of a darkroom and how to carve designs into relief blocks. Then, learn how to print multi-color images using these screens and reliefs.
Sgraffito Clay Plates Workshop
Learn the art of sgraffito, which involves scratching designs into underglazed clay to show the contrast between color and the clay body, to create one-of-a-kind designs on a ceramic plate for a usable piece of art or a lovely wall decoration.
Ceramic Vases Workshop
Create an elegant ceramic vase through clay handbuilding techniques.
Sculptural Ceramics: Ages 8–16
An introduction to various handbuilding techniques and ways form sculptural art from clay.
Ceramic Tiles Workshop
Spend an afternoon crafting a unique hexagonal ceramic tile mural. Learn how to shape the clay and utilize underglazes to decorate your tiles with unique patterns.
Intermediate Potter’s Wheel and Handbuilding
Expand your skills to the next level—whether it's learning to throw clay at a larger scale or with better consistency. This is a great class for those who have previously taken a potter's wheel class and want even better practice. Handbuilders are welcome too!
Intermediate Potter’s Wheel
Expand your skills and take them to the next level—throw larger vessels with more consistency, or perfect your regular forms. Raku kilns will be fired. This is a great class for those who have previously taken a potter’s wheel class and desire more experience.
Ceramic Handbuilding
Learn the basics of molding and shaping clay with your hands. Experiment with texture, colored slips, and a variety of tools to make functional and non-functional pieces out of slabs and coils.
Try It Thursdays! Small Coil Bowls
Come on in for a one night only make-it-and-take-it art experience. Make lovely little bowls using clay coiling techniques.
Try It Thursdays! Ceramic Sun Faces
Come on in for a one night only make-it-and-take-it art experience! Grace your garden or home with a ceramic sun plaque.
Ceramics Studio Time
Return ceramics students can call 262.636.9177 to sign up for studio time, based on museum schedule and availability. No facilitator or instructor will be on-site.
Evening Open Studio
This class is designed for the advanced student with experience. A studio facilitator will be on-hand for questions, advice, and to keep the clay studio up and running!
