Wheel Throwing (Beginner)
Feb 4 2025 – Feb 25 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Practice centering with clay before moving on to making simple shapes like cylinders and bowls.
Adult Classes
The Gardiner Museum is a leader in clay and art education, offering a range of adult classes year-round in our studios.
Gardiner Friends get 15% off and front-of-the-line registration for sessional classes and camps. Join now!
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Feb 4 2025 – Feb 25 2025
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (Intermediate – Advanced)
Feb 9 2025 – Mar 9 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Develop your skills in wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, texturing, and more. This free-form or open studio style class will focus on independent experimentation.
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (All Levels)
Jan 6 2025 – Mar 3 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Start by learning basic hand-building techniques, then learn to use the pottery wheel to create functional ceramics.
Stoneware (Beginner)
Jan 6 2025 – Mar 3 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Learn basic hand building and wheel-throwing techniques, and experiment with exciting glaze combinations on both functional and sculptural pieces.
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (Intermediate – Advanced)
Jan 6 2025 – Mar 3 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Learn wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, texturing, and more. This class is designed for students already comfortable working with clay.
Wheel Throwing: Stoneware (Beginner)
Jan 7 2025 – Feb 25 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Using stoneware clay, learn to create functional and sculptural pieces on the pottery wheel. This class is designed for students new to ceramics.
Wheel Throwing (Beginner)
Jan 7 2025 – Jan 28 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Practice centering with clay before moving on to making simple shapes like cylinders and bowls.
Hand Building (All Levels)
Jan 7 2025 – Feb 25 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Learn to make functional, sculptural, and decorative pieces using hand-building techniques. Practice sculpting, slab building, coiling, surface decoration, and glazing.
Intro to Sculptural Pottery: Stoneware (All Levels)
Jan 8 2025 – Feb 26 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Using stoneware clay, learn hand-building techniques, including pinching, coiling, and slab making.
Wheel Throwing: Stoneware (Intermediate)
Jan 8 2025 – Feb 26 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Improve your ability to center and throw consistently, and practice creating and altering thrown vessels.
Wheel Throwing: Stoneware (Intermediate)
Jan 8 2025 – Feb 26 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Advance your wheel throwing skills to create functional sculptural vessels.
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (Beginner)
Jan 9 2025 – Feb 27 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Learn wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, texturing, and more.
Wheel Throwing (All Levels)
Jan 9 2025 – Feb 27 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel! Create your own functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes.
Wheel Throwing and Surface Decoration (All Levels)
Jan 9 2025 – Feb 27 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Learn wheel throwing and surface decoration, inspired by the Gardiner Museum’s permanent collections.
Wheel Throwing (Beginner)
Jan 9 2025 – Feb 27 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Get an introduction to the pottery wheel and learn to create functional and decorative pieces.
Hand Building (Beginner)
Jan 10 2025 – Feb 28 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Make functional, sculptural, and decorative pieces using hand-building techniques.
Wheel Throwing: Gardiner Collections (All Levels)
Jan 11 2025 – Mar 8 2025
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes, inspired by wheel-thrown works in the Gardiner Museum’s collections.
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (Intermediate – Advanced)
Jan 12 2025 – Feb 2 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Develop your skills in wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, texturing, and more. This free-form or open studio style class will focus on independent experimentation.
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