Slug in the Mud Pottery Studio
Pottery classes and workshops in Okotoks Alberta
Come as a beginner or continue with your skills. Our classes and workshops provide all you need to come get your hands muddy. Come be as happy as a Slug in the mud!
Our current studio is cozy, the classes are small, and you get a relaxing, creative space to explore the wonderful material of clay.
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Classes
This class is 6 weeks to get an introduction to clay. You will learn hand-building techniques and the wheel, as well as refine and glaze your pieces. This class is good for full beginners and as a refresher. We are open to your projects you want to build and also have many projects to offer.
Join us for 6 weeks to gain confidence on the wheel. Good for those who can center and raise a cylinder
We will focus on more controlled throwing on the wheel. You will learn how to throw off the hump, a double wall vessel, add lids to your pieces in 3 different ways, and throw pots in multiple sections and attach. This class is open to your ideas as well. If there is something specific you want to focus on, we can work it in!
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Dates TBA
This class is good for beginners and those looking to improve with using the pottery wheel. You will have time and guidance to practice those skills to gain confidence. In the final week of this class, your pieces will be fired, and you will glaze. Classes are 2 hours.
If you have taken a class before and want to continue on (but don't yet feel confident for intermediate throwing), then this is the class for you. This class is flexible wheel and handbuilding time with lots of guidance. In the first class, we will check in on your skill level and what you want to work on and go from there. This class includes clay, glaze and firing. What you make is up to you!
Workshops
One or two day sessions
Come for 2.5 hours and learn how to to build a little home for fairies and gnomes to go wherever you like. Then take time with our stamps to personalize your piece. Your piece will come back white and ready to be painted at home! All supplies and tools are included. This workshop is good for beginners. Children 9 and up and welcome when accompanied by an adult.
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Come for 2.5 hours and learn how to handbuild a mug using slabs. Then take time with our stamps to personalize your piece. You will pick a colour, and we will glaze and fire it and get it back to you in about 2 weeks. All supplies and tools are included. This workshop is good for beginners. Children 9 and up and welcome when accompanied by an adult.
This hand-building workshop teaches the slow and mindful method of coil building to make larger pots and bowls. You will have 2 afternoons to build up and refine your larger piece. Learn how to build a stencil for a larger pot and support your piece as it gets larger. You can make something up to 15" wide and 16" tall (the largest our kiln will allow). 4 weeks later, you will come back to glaze your pieces. This workshop is open to beginners.
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