All About the Extruder w. Erica Hood and Ned Roche (Summer 2025) Sunday Afternoons, 7 Week Session
7 Week Session
Sundays 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
July 13th - August 24th
Instructor: Erica Hood & Ned Roche
7 Week Session
Sundays 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
July 13th - August 24th
Instructor: Erica Hood & Ned Roche
7 Week Session
Sundays 1:00 pm-4:00 pm
July 13th - August 24th
Instructor: Erica Hood & Ned Roche
Description
In this class, we will use our Brent and Bailey extruders to shape clay into coils, straps, and hollow tubes. Demonstrations will include setting up both extruders, operating them, cleaning them, and fundamental techniques for working with various extruded shapes. Basic functional and sculptural projects will be designed to integrate extruded shapes with other forming methods. Students will be encouraged to explore a wide range of possibilities with our existing die shapes and will have the opportunity to design a custom-shaped die.
Skill Level
No experience necessary, all skill levels welcome!
What to Bring
Hand towel
Notebook/writing utensils
Basic Clay Tools (needle tool, throwing sponge, wire tool, ribs, trimming tools, wood modeling tool. Your favorite hand building tools.
Buying Clay
Students can purchase additional clay from Chases Garage to use outside of class time. Clay cost: 25lbs $35.00 + ME state sales tax
What’s Included
Communal clay to use during class
Materials to make a custom-shaped die
$35 worth of firing fees (see below)
Glazing + Firing
Registration includes $35 worth of firing fees (1,000 cubic inches). Students may produce work totaling more than 1,000 cubic inches; additional work will be subject to our $0.025 per cubic inch firing fee.
Chases Garage is a ^10 Reduction Firing Studio
To ensure correct glazing and firing, all students must use ^10 clay and glaze from Chase's Garage. We stock: Laguna BMix 10, Laguna #900, Sheffield T3, and Sheffield #42.
Access
Access to open studio time outside of class is restricted to "student members" only. Registered students will receive an email with additional details about student membership before the session begins.
Logistics
Registered students will receive a “welcome” email one week prior to the start date.
Ned Roche
Ned Roche is Co-Owner of Chases Garage Artist Studios & Gallery. He sometimes folds Things out of clay.
Erica Hood
Erica earned a BFA in ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. As a ceramicist with 15 years of experience, she specializes in functional and sculptural pieces that often incorporate mixed media and printmaking techniques. She has been teaching ceramics in New England for the past ten years. Previously, she has taught at MassArt, Haystack Open Door, Umbrella Arts Center, and The Clay School. She is currently the studio and office manager at Chases Garage Artist Studios in York, Maine, where she also teaches ceramics. Erica lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts, with her husband, Owen Roberts, a fellow MassArt alum.
TERMS + CONDITIONS
Adults (18 or older) may register for classes & workshops at Chases Garage. Chases reserves the right to cancel courses, substitute instructors, change course times, and limit enrollment. The student agrees to abide by any and all rules and policies of the studios. Chases will assume no responsibility for any loss, personal or physical. With enrollment, a student consents to being photographed in classes (unless we informed in writing). These photographs may be used by Chases in future promotional efforts without specific written permission from the student.
CLASS WITHDRAWAL & REFUND POLICY
100% Refund (minus processing fee): Student must withdraw at least 6 business days prior to the start of the class.
50% Refund (minus processing fee): Issued when a student withdraws 5 business days or less from the start of the class.
NO REFUNDS ARE GIVEN ONCE A CLASS BEGINS.
If Chases cancels a course, registered students will be notified and all fees will be refunded in full. Classes that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements will be canceled, typically two to four business days before the class begins.