Clay Camp 2013 Update

Clay Camp 1, Beginners: June 17 - 21
24 people max
age 7 - 10 years old, no experience needed

Clay Camp 2, Intermediate: June 24 - 28
20 people max
age 9 - 12 years old, must have an experience of making pottery especially wheel throwing

Clay Camp 3, Advanced: July 8 - 12
10 people max
age 12 - 15 years old, must be able to use electric wheel without support, prefered to attend clay camp in last two years or equivalent experience. Students will concentrate wheel throwing and also make high quality sculpture with professional artists. Required self motivation and strong interest for arts.

Related Schedule
Aug 5 - 9 Summer Camp Show installation in the STARworks gallery
Aug 12 - 16 Summer Camp Show in the STARworks Gallery

Cost: $85 per student
Drop Off: 11:30am - 12pm
Class: 12pm - 3pm  (1:30-1:50 Snack Break)
Pick Up: 3pm - 3:30pm
* students may bring own lunch and eat before class begins in the clay studio eating area

Guest Artist: Ben Owen, Eck McCanless, Rosa Patton, MaryElaine Bernard

If you are interested, please call to 910-428-9007 or email to hitomi@starworksnc.org

Clay Camp for Teachers 2013

Clay Camp for Teachers 2013

Class Description:
This class is made for teachers and instructors who want to brush up pottery making technique and knowledge for their class room. STARworks Ceramics will offer and share useful information from our ceramic educational programs.

Schedule:
Clay Camp for Teachers 1: July 23 (Tue) 12-2pm (and 1 hour extra studio hour)
Workshop: Hand building and Wheel Throwing

Clay Camp for Teachers 2: July 30 (Tue) 12-2pm (and 1 hour extra studio hour)
Workshop: Handbuilding and trimming
Seminar: clay, under glaze, and other useful materials and information

Clay Camp for Teachers 3: Aug 6 (Tue) 12-2pm (and 1 hour extra studio hour)
Workshop: Glazing and Glaze Firing
Seminar: Glaze making and managing firing

Clay Camp for Teachers 4: Aug 13 (Tue) 12-1pm
Seminar: Evaluation, exhibition set up and other issues, gallery talk, etc
Participants will pick up their own pots

$100 for 4 series
All materials, instruction and firing fee are included
20 people maximum
Participants must be an art related teacher

Clay Snowman Workshop went well

We had a wonderful weekend.
Thank you for joining the workshop!

SWC Clay Studio Upcoming Workshop, Fall 2012

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SWC Clay Studio Upcoming Workshop, Fall 2012

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October 6 (Sat)  “Clay Pumpkin Workshop”

Instructor: Hitomi Shibata

Age: All ages (families are welcome)

Cost: $15/person

Time: 1pm-2pm

Class size: 50 people/max

December 1 (Sat)  “Clay Snowman Workshop”

Instructor: Hitomi Shibata and Susan Yates

Age: All ages (families are welcome!)

Cost: $15/person

Time:1pm-2:00pm

Class size: 50 people/max

For Class Registration, email to: hitomi@starworksnc.org

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What a great night

STARworks held the closing reception of Summer Student Exhibition at STARworks Gallery on August 10 (fri). 5:30-7:30pm. 53 (+1) Clay camp students, 2 clay camp instructors, 2
volunteer instructors, 2 guest artists, and 12 glass camp students exhibited beautiful art works.

In case you missed the show, I want to introduce some of them here.

Clay Masks,  Pit fired
all students and Hitomi&Susan

Figure Project, Intermediate students and Hitomi&Susan

"Three Boys" by Hitomi

"Henny and Bootsy, BFF"
Susan Yates, Instructor

"Stars of the town of Star"
Hitomi Shibata, Instructor

"Grasshopper, Ants and the Arts"
Greg Bender, Educator, Instructor

Ben Owen
Seagrove Potter, Guest Artist

"Water Tower Rattle"
MaryElaine Bernard
Ceramics Artist, Guest Artist

Group shot

Hope to see you next year!

Clay Camp: Class 2

Clay Camp Intermediate was successfully done. There were 25 students, lots of projects and students works, and 1000 pounds of STArworks clay were gone in a week. I was also glad there were11 students from last year's clay camp and it made me feel good. Thank you for your hard work.

Ben Owen came on the 2nd day and taught them wheel throwing

How lucky they are!

MaryElaine Bernard who are clay artist and teacher in Louisiana taught about making sclupture

Special thanks to:

Ben Owen, Seagrove Potter

MaryElaine Bernard, Ceramic Artist and Teacher in Louisiana

Greg Bender, Art Teacher of Green Ridge Elementary School in Biscoe

Anne Partna, STARworks Garden Coordinator and Seagrove Potter

Susan Yets, STARworks Ceramics Residency Artist

And of course, Takuro Shibata and Santiago Ramirez

Clay Camp: Class 1

Just quick update.

Clay Camp Class 1 was all done successfully and everyone made great final project on Friday.

There were 28 students, lots of lots of pots, and 1000 pounds of clay in five days. 

Great job!