Ceramic Workshops at Island City Clayspace

Island City Clayspace | 275 E 3rd St.
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Ceramic workshops for older teens and adults are offered this fall at Island City Clayspace in downtown Winona. There are six workshops, each for three hours, on Saturday afternoons, and one 6-hour sculpting workshop that meets a second time for final glazing. Workshops range from functional pottery to sculpture, and are suitable for beginners as well as experienced potters and clay artists. Handbuilding methods such as slab-building, coiling, pinching, and modeling are used to create forms that are then decorated with colored underglazes and glaze. All projects are glazed (as appropriate) and fired, and functional pots are foodsafe. 

Projects include: a life-size Decorated Skull, inspired by Dias de Los Muertos sugar skulls (this is the 6-hour workshop, meeting on Oct 7 and 21); Pair of Mugs project – handbuilt with textured slabs, choose from two sections offered on Oct 28 or 29; Brown Sugar Keepers – make several as fun, small gifts, offered Nov. 11; several Clay Bowls – decorated with texture and colored underglazes, choose from two sections offered on Dec 9 or 10; and finally Decorated Tiles, offered Jan 6. The instructor, Anne Scott Plummer, MFA, a retired university art professor, makes sure that participants are successful and have fun. Register for workshops through Winona Area Public Schools Community Education, Adult Enrichment, at www.winonaschools.org/communityed/adult-programs/adult-enrichment.

Three-hour workshops are $29 to register, and require a $15 materials fee when you come to the studio. These experiences are for adults and teens 14 and older. 

Anne Scott Plummer is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.