Skill Level: One (Beginner)

Requirements: None - No experience required

Dates: Saturday, July 12 10:30am-5:30pm (with one hour for lunch) and Sunday, July 13 10:30am-1:30pm

In this two day Weekend Intensive, Adams Puryear will share ideas and various techniques for creating handbuilt Mugs. Throughout history vessels with handles have been used as objects to drink and eat out of and this format will be explored with demonstrations as well as historical and contemporary examples. Saturday is focused on making a mug and refining or adding surface treatments. This will include pinching and coiling processes, slab and pulled handles, and adding texture with tools and stamps. Sunday will survey various methods of underglaze and slip applications with an overview of design and composition strategies. Work will be clear glazed and fired by staff.

This is a great workshop for beginning handbuilders and for understanding the vast amount of possibilities that underglaze provides using the mug as a 3D canvas. 

Day One Morning:

Welcome and intro
Make first cylinder pinch pot
Make second coil style, discuss foot, handle relationships as well as proportions
Talk about handles, make handles using different techniques

Day One Afternoon:

Attach handles
Adding texture and altering form with stamps and paddles
Make and refine as needed
Underglaze intro

Day Two Morning:

Discuss underglazes
Composition ideas and reference different historical design motifs
Paint
Refine as needed

Included with class:

• cone 6 clay

• a wide selection of underglazes for decorating

• glazing and firing of work

You will need to bring:

While an assortment of community tools will be available is is suggested your bring your own if you have them