Coming Events

“screen printing on clay” workshop with local Boston potter Alice Drew

workshop & potluck on Sunday, May 20, 10-3pm

see the full flier here

**too see photos from our past events, visit http://www.flickr.com/feetofclaypottery/

Past Events

Sunday, March 11, Shoichi Satoh led an interesting & useful workshop on handmade ceramics tools. Thanks Shoichi!

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Sunday, March 4, 2012, Monica Ripley, of Mudflat Pottery Studio, led an awesome workshop on throwing techniqes, slip decoration & inlay. We loved it!

** see more photos of Monica’s workshop at http://www.flickr.com/photos/feetofclaypottery/sets/72157629732072087/

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Sunday, February 19, 2012, Shoichi Satoh, our Feet of Clay in-house Japanese production potter, led an interesting & informative workshop on Japanese production pottery and what are its unique historical parts. Participants learned much watching him throw on the wheel and especially appreciated seeing his handmade tools.

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On Sunday, October 30, 2011, Feet of Clay all-star member Christine Shadic led a fabulous glazing 101 workshop where all participants learned a ton about glazing & decorating techniques.

**see more photos from Christine’s great workshop at http://www.flickr.com/photos/77863557@N06/sets/72157629560643169/

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On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Morris Norvin led a great Sculpting 101 Workshop that taught students the basics of sculpting including the following techniques:

• additive and subtractive forms of sculpting
• methods and practices of achieving proportion on the human figure
• proportions and methods of sculpting the human head, and rendering animals from life and print
• and students will learn basic design for their projects.

** see all the photos from Morris’ workshop at http://www.flickr.com/photos/77863557@N06/sets/72157629560566485/

Morris Norvin is a partner and instructor at Stonybrook Fine Arts. Morris began studying art at the age of 8 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. At age 12, Morris began taking figure sculpture classes with Ralph Rosenthal at the Museum of Fine Arts. He continued throughout high school and then went on to graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Today he teaches the very same sculpture classes he took from Ralph as a child. Morris has worked with a diverse range of materials including metal, wax, clay, wood, plasticine, paper, glass and polymers. To learn more about Morris, see this recent article in the Boston Globe: http://bo.st/eFhRy1 or this article in the Jamaica Plain Patch: http://bit.ly/hga7N5

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On Saturday November 13 2010, Scott Goldberg led a *fabulous* workshop on functional wheel-thrown pottery. 

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On August 14th, 2010, Gabrielle Fougere come to conduct a workshop at our studio.  As the first workshop that Feet of Clay has ever had, it was fantastic and we learned so much!  Gabrielle is a wonderful and enthusiastic teacher!