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Description
Join Lindsey Howarth in a class focused on collaring thrown ceramic forms. Students will be guided through the entire process, starting with throwing even-walled cylinders, learning how to use a throwing stick, and pulling narrow, tall necks. Students will learn to trim their pieces by making their own trimming chucks. Glaze design and application will also be discussed. Lindsey will begin each class with a demonstration, after which students receive one-on-one instruction while working independently. Through repetition, students will learn to master collaring techniques and learn how to create various ceramic shapes.
Skill Level
Beginner - Intermediate
What to Bring
Basic Clay Tools (needle tool, throwing sponge, wire tool, ribs, trimming tools, wood modeling tool.
Your favorite wheel-throwing and hand-building tools
A towel for cleaning
Highly Suggested: A bat system, such as Erica’s favorite bat system or Lindsey’s favorite bat system
Buying Clay
Registration does not include clay. Students must purchase clay from Chases Garage during class time. Clay cost: 25lbs $35.00 + ME state sales tax
What’s Included
$25 worth of firing fees (see below)
Glazing + Firing
Registration includes $25 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. We offer 22 single-glaze colors for studio use, with over 400 possible combinations!
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.
Lindsey Howarth
Ceramicist Lindsey Howarth, hailing from South Jersey, completed her BFA focus on ceramics, in 2007 from Green Mountain College in Vermont. During this time, she apprenticed at Blue Moon Pottery in Greenwich, NY, and worked with other potters along the Saratoga-Albany Pottery trail. Following a term in the AmeriCorps and teaching children’s clay classes, she moved to Berwick, Maine in 2010 to work in production pottery at Salmon Falls Stoneware. In 2019 her husband completed her home studio, facilitating further exploration of clay and developing her current body of work. Currently Lindsey teaches at Chases Garage in York, Maine, and shows her work regionally in galleries and at shows.
To learn more visit: www.howarthhillmaine.com
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.