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Overview

What will you learn?

Come and play with clay! No experience needed, just a desire to learn and have fun! This introductory class will allow students to learn how to throw on the wheel and how to glaze. All class firings are cone 5 electric with additional cost for wood firing as an option.

Refund Policy

  • A $75 fee will be charged for all workshop refunds due to a withdrawal. Refunds will be given up to one (1) month prior to the workshop start date. Thereafter, norefunds will be given, unless the ESAC cancels the workshop.
Karen Clements

Karen Clements

Instructor

Karen Clements has taught Beginning Pottery, Summer Art Bash, and Kids Pottery at ESAC for many years. She enjoys teaching students about unique hand building techniques, glazing methods, and more. Her work can be found at Melt and More in downtown Fairhope.

Zach Sierke

Zach Sierke

Instructor

Zach Sierke is a Fairhope native and has grown up with  the idealistic vision and natural beauty of the community as a deeply ingrained source of inspiration in all aspects of his life. A childhood spent deep sea fishing with passionate and myopic focus actively engaged him in understanding the alien world beneath the surface – an approach to problem solving that has informed his life-long interests in gardening, yoga, surfing, music, and understanding the transformation of native clays in wood-fired kilns. Zach came to clay during his freshman year at Eckerd College and immediately became obsessed with the ceramic process.  The next four years were spent returning to Fairhope, investigating centuries-old kiln sites (including his great, great grandfather’s), hand-mining native clays from every available deposit, and transporting them back to Eckerd College – where he tested them in the wood-fired kiln that he helped build. He returned to Fairhope after graduation with the plan to build a small kiln and create a body of work with which to apply to graduate school for ceramics.  Through a series of fortuitous events and the generosity and support of the community, he became engaged in the construction of a uniquely innovative, well-researched, and large anagama kiln. Over the years of working on the kiln project, a cooperative oasis of sustainable-minded  community has evolved around the 1880′s farmhouse and the centuries old live oak trees.