Craft Students League YWCA-NYC
610 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10022June 11, 2004
Since 1932, The Craft Students League (CSL) has been offering outstanding programs in fine art and craft to women and men. Our instructors are artists with excellent training, teaching skills and professional backgrounds. The Craft Students League offers a wide spectrum of workshops and classes in Ceramics. Learn basic techniques, develop skills or master a craft in our spacious, well- equipped studios.
The Ceramic Studios are spacious, air-conditioned and fully equipped with electric potters wheels, slab rollers, extruders, a separate glaze laboratory, storage and lockers. Firing is cone 6 oxidation. Surface decoration and studio glazes are included in all courses. Firing charge is 3 cents per cubic inch for two firings. Tool kits are available in class for $18. CSL offers Benchtime to currently enrolled students. (Benchtime fee is required.) Craft Students League Summer Term begins July 15, 2004.
Listed below is a sampling of the classes and workshops offered. For a catalog or more information, please call (212) 735-9731. Enroll early to reserve a space.
Classes:
Handbuilding - All Levels Beginners learn basic forming techniques while more advanced students develop their own ideas and skills through individual projects. Innovative, traditional and advanced glazing techniques are included. Yuichiro Komatsu/TBA
6 sessions $200 Sat. Jul. 17 - Aug. 21 10:00am - 1:00pm(TBA) 111-20706Introduction to Ceramics I - Beginner Learn basic forming techniques including pinching, coiling and working with slabs, followed by an introduction to the potter’s wheel. Glazing and various decorative techniques are covered, along with a general overview of creating works in clay. Kelli Sinner
6 sessions $200 Wed. Jul. 16 - Aug. 18 6:00 - 9:00pm 111-30710 Introduction to Ceramics II - Experienced Beginner/Intermediate Increase your handbuilding skills, learn how to use press molds and learn to successfully combine forms and surface treatment. Glaze techniques are covered. Prerequisite: Introduction to Ceramics I. 6 sessions $200 Mon. Jul. 12 - Aug. 16 6:00 - 9:00pm 111-30712Introduction to Porcelain - Intermediate/Advanced Learn basic skills and techniques specific to porcelain and adapt your own throwing or handbuilding abilities to this fine material. Glazing will be demonstrated and discussed. Intermediate clay experience required. Arthur Gerace
6 sessions $200 Wed. Jul. 14 - Aug. 18 10:00am - 1:00pm 111-30735Ceramics Workshops
Silver Clay - PMC Plus - All Levels Works like clay and fires to 99% silver. Use PMC Plus as a clay, a paste and in a syringe. Make pendants, earrings or sculpture miniatures. Forming, texturing, setting stones, drying and firing will be done in the morning, finishing and patina in the afternoon. Additional PMC Plus will be available for sale during class. Materials fee: $75. Vera Lightstone
2 sessions $210 (non-members $225) Sat./Sun. Jul. 31, Aug. 1 10:00am - 4:00pm 111-90745Ceramic Plates - All Levels Focusing on slab construction, create your own plates out of clay. Learn surface decoration and finishing techniques including sgraffito, stamping, glazing and sprigging. Pieces will be glazed in the second session. Work can be picked up two weeks following the last class. Ellen Day
3 sessions $115 (non-members $130) Sat. Jul. 17 & 31 11:00am - 2:00pm 111-90740Stretching Creativity - All Levels Students learn through exercises and projects designed to loosen inhibitions and encourage risk-taking. This liberating class will focus more on content and process than finished results. Daily group discussion and analysis of work will expand students’ understanding and awareness of their personal approach to art-making and the medium of clay. Vera Lightstone
4 sessions $140 (non-members $155) Thu. Jul. 29 - Aug. 19 10:00am - 1:00pm 111-90746