Richmond Art Center: Wednesday Wheel & Sculpture - Steven Allen Explore wheel throwing, hand-building and sculptural techniques. Students can create their own projects or be inspired by a variety of techniques demonstrated each week. Traditional and alternate firing processes including Saggar and Raku are available.
Walnut Creek Civic Arts: Intro to Sculpture (Beg/Adv) - Steven Allen More fully understand the process of working with clay and constructing sculpted ceramic objects from functional to figurative. Investigate broad artistic concepts like abstraction, representation, form and/or narrative through building demonstrations, image presentations, and our own explorations in the studio. Techniques include pinch, slab, coil and solid hand building methods. Surface texture and treatments both ceramic and non-traditional are also addressed.
Studio E, Civic Park
Crucible The Art of Raku Entry-level class - Steven Allen Create your own work in class or bring in your completed bisque fired pieces to transform them into beautiful Raku pieces. All skill levels are welcome, and exploration is encouraged...learn how organic materials combine with the whimsy of fire to create incredible surface textures on your ceramic works in this hands-on, exciting process. Beware...Raku is exciting and addictive! *Young Adults age 16+ must request approval and register to take this class by phone at 510-444-0919 x"0"
Ruby's Clay Studio Hand-building All Levels - Steven Allen All classes are eight weeks long. The class fee covers instruction, studio time, use of over twenty high fire glazes, and firing of your work. Tools and clay are not provided; however Ruby’s provides these materials at a greatly discounted rate. Classes are limited to ten students. Studio time is unlimited for all students during the eight weeks of their class. Guaranteed firing is limited to the work made with 25 lbs of clay. Additional work (within reason) is fired free of charge, as space permits.