Tuesday, October 13- November 17, 2026

10:00am- 12:30pm

Six Sessions

This six week session will focus on hand-building functional and sculptural projects with holiday gift-giving in mind. Demos will include making your own newsprint underglaze decals and sgrafitto techniques.

If you are interested in working on your own ideas but would like some technical and design guidance, we can accommodate your needs. Open to all levels.

Classes are held at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 South Shore Drive, a short block and a half walk up from the Guemes ferry dock on Guemes Island.

Cost: $300.00 plus tax ($325.80) and includes up to 12lbs of clay, use of studio tools, glazes, firings and Open Studio*.

*Open Studio Sessions

Tuesdays, 12:30pm-4:30pm
Open to students who are enrolled in weekly classes at Tower Art Studio. This gives students the opportunity to work independently in the studio, without instruction on their projects after class time.

Wednesday, October 14- November 18, 2026

10:00am - 12:30pm

This 6 week session focuses on building functional and sculptural items using slab and coil built forms. Demos will include building small whimsical animal figures as well as making your own newsprint underglaze decals.

If you are interested in working on your own ideas but would like some technical and design guidance, we can accommodate your needs. Open to all levels.

Classes are held at Tower Arts Studio, 5424 South Shore Drive a short block and a half walk up from the Guemes ferry dock on Guemes Island.

Cost: $300.00 plus tax ($325.80) and includes up to 12 lbs of clay, use of studio tools, glazes, firings and Open Studio*.

*Open Studio Sessions
Wednesday, 12:30pm- 4:30pm
Open to students who are enrolled in weekly classes at Tower Art Studio. This gives students the opportunity to work independently in the studio, without instruction on their projects after class time.

Tuesdays, October 13 - November 17, 2026

5:00pm-8:30pm

Six Sessions

In this six week evening session, students will focus on making clay items to be fired in a traditional electric kiln glaze firing, as well as make smallish vessel or animal forms for a raku firing.

Raku is the special technique of creating pottery with open flame.

Demos will include hand-building functional and sculptural clay pieces and wax resist and glazing techniques.

The last class will include a Raku kiln firing with some of the clay pieces made during the session. Folks can create up to two small clay pieces, which will be bisqued fired and then glazed with metallic and/or crackle raku glazes. Students will watch as their molten hot glazed pieces are quickly removed from an outdoor electric kiln and set aflame in a covered metal bin filled with combustible material. Fire needs oxygen in order to burn, so the flames pull oxygen out of the glazes and leave a wonderful ephemeral mix of colors and metallics.

Materials include clay, glazes and firings. Class size is limited. Open to all levels.