This three-day workshop will be a general overview of ceramic glazes, focusing on but not limited to cone 6 glazes. It is designed for the continuing beginner to intermediate ceramic artists.

Glaze chemistry doesn’t have to be that scary! John will guide us through glaze formulation, the mixing process, calculations and educate us the properties of the ingredients.

As a group we will mixed color blends on three different clay bodies to create a library of ideas!

We will discuss cones, kilns, firing dynamics, and principles as well as how to apply those principles to various firing cycles. We are chasing color!

We will discuss how glazes work, how to adjust your glazes, and how to find new ones.

The workshop fee includes three days of instruction, raw materials for glazes, bisque-fired test tiles that you will get to keep, and the firings of these test tiles in the workshop.Click here for a materials list

Montclair Mud Clay Studio (Bloomfield Ave)

Friday April 10 9am-4pm
Saturday April 11 9am-4pm
Sunday April 12 9am-3pm

$550 per artist- Members receive a $75 discount

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In this workshop, students will learn the basics of screen printing onto clay. Corrine Carr will demonstrate how to prepare & burn a screen, although it must be done in the dark, so this part will not be hands on. Artists will choose from provided screens to print on 3 of their bisqued pieces. Pots must be no larger than 6 x 5 inches

Firing Fees and 2 oz. screenprinting medium included.

$120 per artist- Members receive a $20 discount

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11/22 1-4pm

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Kintsugi

The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. If a bowl is broken, rather than discarding the pieces, the fragments are put back and the cracks are adorned with gold.

Guest Instructor Tara DeLuca will lead you in connecting with a bowl (provided by us), breaking it, confronting the damage and taking ownership of the pieces that remain by glueing them back together. No experience necessary.

$120 per artist- Members receive a $25 discount

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12/7 1-3:30pm

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The cylinder is the basic skill for most forms we create. We are often too quick to jump ahead without teaching our body and brain how to make the perfect cylinder. Sign up for this cylinder intensive. Attempt to throw 8 to 10 PERFECT cylinders…(yeah right).

MUST KNOW BASIC STEPS OF THROWING A POT! (You don’t have to be good at those steps.) This is not a “from scratch” class! We will be timing and challenging ourselves.

You will get to keep 4 cylinders. Subsequent pots would be 6 cents/cubic inch for members or 10-18 cents/ cubic inch for non members, (depending on which glaze you use.)

$80 per artist- Members receive a $20 discount

Mendham Mud

12/21 1-3:30pm

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12/28 1-3:30pm

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Learn how to carve and to replicate one tile that tessellates into a larger design. You will also learn tips for making your own inexpensive tile-making tools and techniques for minimizing warping, for displaying and using your tiles, and more.

Instructor, Theresa Mustafa, has over 13 years experience making tiles, murals, and mosaics for customers throughout the US. www.theresamustafa.com

Participants will learn to make their own tools, get glazing tips, use a handmade tile press and will result in a 6 to 9 tile tessellated design. Fees include all materials & Firing Fees

$275 per artist- Members receive a $50 discount

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1/25 10am-4pm

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