Fleming College

Pottery Throwing Camp - Intermediate/Advanced

Course Code: ARTS0735

This course is not suitable for beginners.
This is an opportunity to really focus on increasing your throwing skills. If you've 'hit the wall' in terms of being able to throw - more efficiently, bigger pieces, more consistently, looser pots, tighter pots - you will be encouraged and challenged to learn new throwing techniques, increase throwing skills, and practice, practice, practice. Throwing is a physical skill. It requires proper technique, good tools, and proper care of your body. Through a series of demonstrations, specific exercises, class discussions, inspirational videos, and lots of wheel time, you will elevate throwing skill, as well as develop a personal practice of pot-making. A pug-mill will be available to make reclaiming clay as easy as possible. While one bisque fire may be done to ease transport of trophy pots, it is not the intent of this course to cover glazing and firing. Also included is a smoke firing and a primitive firing in a downdraft barrel kiln. Please bring 2 dry, unfired, narrow-mouthed pots. A limber sense of humour and a willingness to cut pots in half will make the course much more enjoyable.