Lidded Forms w. Lindsey Howarth (Spring 2025) Wednesday Mornings, 10 Week Session
10 Week Session
Wednesdays 10:00 am-1:00 pm
April 9th-June 18th no class May 28th
Instructor: Lindsey Howarth
10 Week Session
Wednesdays 10:00 am-1:00 pm
April 9th-June 18th no class May 28th
Instructor: Lindsey Howarth
10 Week Session
Wednesdays 10:00 am-1:00 pm
April 9th-June 18th no class May 28th
Instructor: Lindsey Howarth
Description
Explore the world of lidded forms in this 10 week class!
This class will focus on creating a variety of lidded and covered forms. Students will develop essential throwing skills while exploring new techniques related to lid construction, fitment, and proportion. Learn how to use shrinkage rulers and calipers to make traditional thrown lids, while having the opportunity to use premade cork and wooden gasket lids.
Lindsey will start each class with a demonstration, after which students will receive one-on-one instruction while working independently. Throughout the session, students will watch and learn how to make, trim, and finish various lidded forms, such as closed forms, jars with cork lids, carafes with cup lids, perfume bottles, fermentation jars, gasket lids for tumblers, and more! Glazing techniques relating to lidded forms will be demonstrated towards the end of the session.
This is a technical, project-based class. Students should be prepared to watch demonstrations and follow along with Lindsey as she will focus on one aspect of the process each week. Students can expect to make 6-8 lidded vessels.
Skill Level
Seasoned Beginner - Intermediate
Students should be proficient in throwing a one pound cylinder.
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
Optional: Additional Supplies & Materials
Feel free to bring the following supplies and materials if you already have them
Shrink ruler
Calipers
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
A variety of cork and wooden lids
$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.
Access
Access to open studio time outside of class is restricted to "student members" only. Registered students who are eligible will be notified via email with further details regarding student membership prior to the session's start.
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.