Clay School Ithaca CourseBook 19-20
The Clay School Ithaca, Course Schedule 2019-2020 The Clay School provides a vibrant and creative place for community members to work with clay alongside fellow makers, including local professional and emerging potters. Our studio builds community among students of all ages and enriches peoples' lives through the shared experience of making art. When the Cornell Ceramics Studio closed in 2011, a void opened in Ithaca for a place to teach clay to students of all ages. In 2015, after searching for an adequate location, Julia Dean, a former instructor at the Cornell Studio, moved her own ceramic production studio to our current location at the South Hill Business Campus. The space was accessible and welcoming, and The Clay School was born. Enlisting a cadre of well established potters in the area with decades of combined teaching experience, the Clay School offers classes that introduce a variety of techniques and approaches to working with clay. Students may choose to concentrate on wheel throwing, hand-building methods, surface decoration, and functional work. Various choices of monthly space rental is available to established members in the 2500 square foot studio. Week-long, weekend, and one-day workshops are offered throughout the year for locals and out of town students as well.
The Clay School Ithaca, Course Schedule 2019-2020
The Clay School provides a vibrant and creative place for community members to work with clay alongside fellow makers, including local professional and emerging potters. Our studio builds community among students of all ages and enriches peoples' lives through the shared experience of making art.
When the Cornell Ceramics Studio closed in 2011, a void opened in Ithaca for a place to teach clay to students of all ages. In 2015, after searching for an adequate location, Julia Dean, a former instructor at the Cornell Studio, moved her own ceramic production studio to our current location at the South Hill Business Campus. The space was accessible and welcoming, and The Clay School was born.
Enlisting a cadre of well established potters in the area with decades of combined teaching experience, the Clay School offers classes that introduce a variety of techniques and approaches to working with clay. Students may choose to concentrate on wheel throwing, hand-building methods, surface decoration, and functional work. Various choices of monthly space rental is available to established members in the 2500 square foot studio. Week-long, weekend, and one-day workshops are offered throughout the year for locals and out of town students as well.
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Gretchen Gobble was first introduced to clay in <strong>20</strong>09 at the <strong>Clay</strong>works Studio in<br />
Binghamton, NY. After her first studio class, ceramics became her art medium of<br />
choice. Her connection to the world of clay has encouraged a career path in<br />
educating in the Visual Arts.<br />
Gretchen has taught high school level art and ceramics in the past and is<br />
currently the art teacher at Spencer Van-Etten Elementary. Her passion is to make<br />
connections with students while fostering a creative environment.<br />
Betsy Graham fell in love with clay in high school. Betsy earned her BFA in<br />
ceramics from Penn State University in <strong>19</strong>99. Working with clay has been an integral<br />
part of her life ever since.<br />
Betsy currently works out of her home studio in Brooktondale, NY in which she<br />
focuses on making hand-built functional wares decorated with underglazes. She<br />
sells her work in regional artist markets and shops. Her work has also been included<br />
in multiple national juried exhibitions and can be found as dinnerware in her<br />
brother’s restaurant Staplehouse in Atlanta.<br />
With over 8 years of experience teaching pottery classes to people of all ages,<br />
Betsy is excited to share her passion for clay with the <strong>Ithaca</strong> community!<br />
Tiana Trost holds a BFA in Ceramics from SUNY Buffalo. She is currently the<br />
Visual Art Teacher for grades K-8 at Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori <strong>School</strong> of<br />
<strong>Ithaca</strong>. Tiana has over <strong>20</strong> years of expirence teaching visual arts in Buffalo NY,<br />
Denver CO, and in <strong>Ithaca</strong>. She has studied Ceramics at Haystack Mountain <strong>School</strong><br />
of Arts and Crafts, Maine College of Art, Colorado University at Boulder, Metro<br />
State College at Denver, and has mentored at The Roycroft Pottery in East Aurora,<br />
NY. Her passion is working with clay, and dabbling with many other mediums.<br />
Tiana loves teaching Art to people of all ages, and is excited to be a part of the<br />
<strong>Clay</strong> <strong>School</strong> of <strong>Ithaca</strong>!<br />
Tess Lawlor has taught pottery classes and given workshops at art centers throughout<br />
the Northeast for over 40 years. Throughout her career she has taught beginning,<br />
intermediate, advanced and large scale wheelthrowing techniques along with running an<br />
apprenticeship program for those interested in becoming professional potters. Tess's<br />
students have returned over and over again mastering new skills and many have gone on<br />
to become professional potters themselves.<br />
Her focus is on large scale pieces as well as functional pottery and she delights in the<br />
process as much as the finished work bringing an exacting eye to what is needed to go<br />
from average to the extraordinary.<br />
Tess maintains her pottery studio in Fall Creek neighborhood, <strong>Ithaca</strong>, NY 14850<br />
9 www.<strong>Clay</strong><strong>School</strong><strong>Ithaca</strong>.com
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