Thursday April 14th
6PM-8PM
Participants must provide materials
$25

For intermediate clay studio members, punchcard users, or potters with their own pottery studios who can come to class prepared to come and learn about making handles! From pulling handles, extruded handles, and hand-built handles, gain confidence and skill to make fantastic functional pieces.

Students must bring several leather hard mugs in order to make the most of this workshop.

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Barbara Flathers (she/her) has been in love with ceramics since, as a young Girl Scout, she first saw a potter's wheel being used at Old Sturbridge Village, near to where she grew up in Western Massachusetts. She dabbled with ceramics during her high school years and also at her time at Holyoke Community College.

Barb attended Massachusetts College of Art where she studied ceramics with Ben Ryterband, John Baymore, and Jana Longacre. After graduating with a BFA in Ceramics, she spent several years restoring architectural terra cotta on buildings in and around Boston and other cities in New England. She then moved from Boston to Johnson, Vermont where she has lived, worked, and raised her family ever since.

Barb received her MFA from Northern Vermont University where she focused on glaze design and functional wheel-thrown ceramics. You can find her currently kayaking around Lamoille county and making things with clay.

Lisa Wolfgang (she/her) is a lifelong clay lover. She currently has a mug collection problem and is excited to share some of her acquisitions with the group as part of this workshop. Lisa doesn’t consider herself a potter, wonders if people read these descriptions online, but really enjoys teaching workshops and getting nerdy with the slideshow presentations in her classes. She is a firm believer that anyone can make functional pottery and believes that if shown a range of techniques, people will intuitively find their own style of making that excites and enlivens them.