​Online ​Handbuilding Basics Course

Flatten and Join

Five Week Online Course

Wednesdays 6:30 to 9:00 pm
November 3rd to December 1st, 2021

$250 for Non-Members 
$180 for Members
Make functional dishes with clay safely at home. Learn how to handbuild with clay slabs using flat patterns, slump molds and hump molds. And, learn to decorate the pottery with coloured slips, including transfers, stencils and sgraffito. Lessons will cover making vases, plates, bowls and mugs. 

The topics for the final lesson will be determined by input from the students. Experience making pottery is not required. This course is for people ages 16 years and up.  Registration is limited to 12 students to ensure individualized attention.  It is not required to take the first online course called Carve and Squeeze before taking Flatten and Join. 

Course fee includes:

• stoneware clay
• coloured slips in five colours for decorating
• extensive tool kit, including molds and
  custom made bisque stamps
• firing and glazing of pottery at the Waterloo Potters' Workshop

​Flatten and Join will be taught by local artist Claire Nicole Waddick.
 
Students will be required to locally:

• pickup the materials and tool kits
• drop off pottery made at home
• pickup fired pottery​​ 

COURSE IS SOLD OUT!

Add your name to the waiting list to be notified if a spot becomes available.

Questions?
Contact the instructor at adultclasses@waterloopotters.ca. ​

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​This program was made possible by a grant from the
​ Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation (KWCF).

Examples of some of the projects taught in the Flatten and Join online course.