Needham Community Education

Get creative with clay and other 3D materials! Learning clay involves mastering fundamental techniques like wedging to remove air bubbles, hand-building methods such as pinch pots, coil building, and slab construction, and understanding the properties of clay as it dries and is fired in a kiln. These skills, combined with creative exploration, allows student artists to shape and transform clay into a variety of forms. Different glazes and adornments will be provided to create finished pieces. Each morning of this two-week course, students will learn and begin to master these different clay techniques and build a variety of beautiful hand-built ceramic creations. Afternoons allow for more freedom, where students can continue creating with clay in an open studio format, or switch gears and experiment with recycled art projects—magazine forms, cardboard masks, paper quilling, tube sculpture, jewelry, book art, and more!

Note: Ceramics is a two-week class. Students enrolled in Week 1 and 2 class will participate during both Week 1 (July 7–11) and Week 2 (July 14-18).