Adult Ceramics for Beginners – Quilt Patterns and Text Art – Weekend Morning Sessions

photo of a bench on a grey floor against a white wall with five round padded seats and no back with the following text on the seat covers, "injured? call now"

Jeffery Sincich, Injured? Call Now, 2024. Cotton fabric, batting, plywood, found metal window grate, walnut, swivel seat hardware. Courtesy of the Artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Yubo Dong.

Adults Camps & Classes

Saturdays
April 18 – May 9, 2026
10:30 am – 12:30 pm

SBMA’s Ceramics Studio at The Downtown Club, 632 E Canon Perdido Street

$200 SBMA Members
$240 Non-Members
(includes supplies, glaze, and firing)

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Description

Ages 16 and up

Each four-week beginner throwing class is inspired by a single work of art or collection of objects on display at the Museum. Students will learn how to prep materials, use basic tools, center clay, throw simple forms and to trim and glaze their pieces.

The quilt pattern in Wendy Red Star’s Evening Star II, 2025 and the text art in Jeffrey Sincich’s Injured? Call Now, 2024 featured in the exhibition Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms are the inspiration for this class. Students will make stencils and use transfer techniques to apply underglaze designs and text in bold colors. Clear glaze will be applied by the instructor before the final firing.

Week 1: Intro to pottery

Week 2: Throwing forms

Week 3: Trimming

Week 4: Glazing

Adult Ceramics for Beginners – Quilt Patterns and Text Art – Weekend Morning Sessions

Adult Ceramics for Beginners – Quilt Patterns and Text Art – Weekend Morning Sessions

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