Embrace your creative side with our Arts & Crafts classes! Gaucho R.E.C. offers both pottery and weaving classes at various levels. Come away from class with finished, hand-made projects, like bowls, plates, scarves, and blankets, that you can use or display in your home or give as gifts.
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Pottery - Beginning
Wanting to do something creative with your hands? Come introduce yourself to the timeless tradition of ceramics! With this beginning class, you will learn about the many ways that clay can be shaped and the fundamentals of how to do it yourself with demonstrations and guided practice in pinching, coiling, slab work, wheel-thrown forms, and glaze application. Build the basic skills for making your own functional art.
Pottery - Intermediate
Explore projects requiring basic skills in slab work and utilizing the potter's wheel, while learning more pottery techniques. We will introduce you to more complicated forms of crafts such as goblets, pitchers, teapots, platters. Students should have previous experience with the potter's wheel or hand building. Class will focus on the making of traditional pottery forms which are both functional and beautiful. Instruction includes larger forms as well as tile making along with some unusual glazing and firing techniques.
Pottery - Advanced
Put your skills to the test by learning Needs New Image decorative and altered forms in unique firing methods such as soda and raku firing. Exploration of forms and surfaces including a focus on decorative techniques of Lauren Hansen and ceramic wheel form and altered forms of Dane Venaas. This class requires intermediate skills or permission by the instructor.
Pottery Drop In
Drop in and work at your own pace with supervision of studio staff open to all with previous experience. Drop in studio time is not included in other class fees.
Pottery Drop In - Advanced
Drop in and work at your own pace with supervision of studio staff open to all with previous experience. Drop in studio time is not included in other class fees. Previous experience with wheel work and glaze decoration is required. This class is only open for continuing students who have advance skill level.
Floor Loom Weaving
Learn the art of hand weaving on a floor loom. Our class project for first time students is creating two scarves available in a beautiful range of colors. Returning students will choose their own projects, such as table runners, placemats, rugs and blankets. We will practice foundation skills together: loom set up, pattern drafting, yarn calculations, and weaving with one and two shuttles. Experience the joy of living with cloth made by your own hand!
Floor Loom Weaving - Lab
This is a session we offer to that provide extra time to complete class projects in the weaving room. Students must be concurrently enrolled in a Floor Loom Weaving class to sign up for Floor Loom Weaving - Lab.