Backyard Pottery

Unlock your full potential as a potter with a Private Lesson! Improve your skills with personalized 1:1 instruction from Eric. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced, we’ll work together to achieve your goals and perfect your craft.

Choose from a single session or multiple sessions with or without dedicated studio days to practice and receive feedback. Let’s talk forms, surfaces, and aesthetics!

Please reach out to discuss flexible pricing based on your needs and means. 

The approach:

– Figure out what you do well
– Determine what you want to do better
– Demonstration and practice
– Review and critique

This four week course will introduce you to the pottery wheel. Students should expect to produce a cup and bowl by the end of the course.

Glazed work can be picked up 2 weeks after the end of the class.

Clay, tools, glaze and firings included.

– Classes are limited to 4 students
– Classes meet once per week for instruction and practice, with an option for once per week “studio time” – music, tea, practice and making.
– Participants should plan to attend all instructional meetings.
– Studio days are optional and highly recommended.

What You’ll Learn:

– Clay selection and preparation
– Wedging: T/Rams Head Wedging
– Centering / Pulling / Trimming
– Bisque firing / Glazing / Glaze Firing cone 6

This four week course will introduce you to hand building. Students should expect to create a variety of hand-built pieces by the end of the course. Options include cups, plate/platter forms, sculptural work

We’ll glaze and fire your work, which can be picked up 2 weeks after the end of the class.

Clay, tools, glaze and firings included.

– Classes are limited to 4 students
– Classes meet once per week for instruction and practice, with an option for once per week “studio time” – music, tea, practice and making.
– Participants should plan to attend all instructional meetings.
– Studio days are optional and highly recommended.

What You’ll Learn:

– Clay selection and preparation
– Wedging
– Coil and Pinch pots
– Soft Slab
– Hard Slab
– Bisque firing / Glazing / Glaze Firing cone 6