Surface Design w. Lindsey Howarth (Summer 2025) Wednesday Mornings, 10 Week Session
10 Week Session
Wednesdays 10:00am-1:00pm
July 9th -September 17th no class Sept 3rd
Instructor: Lindsey Howarth
10 Week Session
Wednesdays 10:00am-1:00pm
July 9th -September 17th no class Sept 3rd
Instructor: Lindsey Howarth
10 Week Session
Wednesdays 10:00am-1:00pm
July 9th -September 17th no class Sept 3rd
Instructor: Lindsey Howarth
Description
Learn to elevate your pottery through surface design!
Throughout this 10-week class, students will learn about Mishima, Sgraffito, and carving techniques while using colored slips and underglazes. Lindsey will demonstrate how to use various tools, materials, and processes related to each decoration technique. Design, composition, and color will be explored to encourage students to develop a personal style. Students will receive hands-on instruction while executing surface decoration techniques.
Basic wheel-throwing and hand-building processes will be shown to aid students in creating blank forms that will then be decorated. Students are welcome to create pieces using any construction method of their choosing. Glazing techniques relating to accentuating surface decoration will be demonstrated towards the end of the session.
This is a process-oriented, technical class. Students should be prepared to watch demonstrations and follow along.
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
Exacto knife
A towel
Optional: Additional Supplies & Materials
Feel free to bring the following supplies and materials if you already have them
A variety of paintbrushes (synthetic, natural, etc.)
A variety of colored underglazes
Carving + sgraffito tools
Wax resist
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
Communal black underglaze and colored slips to use during class
Communal carving + sgraffito tools to use during class
$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
The processes and materials used in this class have been specifically selected to work with our studio's firing temperature and atmosphere. This class will cover only Mishima, Sgraffito, and carving techniques.
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.
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.