Class Descriptions:

Beginner Ceramics: 6-week beginner pottery class. You’ll learn basic Hand-building techniques, surface decoration, and glazing. We will explore form and process to begin to refine your skills so you can make finished pieces that shine! 
Intermediate Ceramics: 6-week Intermediate class. We will further refine the basic skills of pinch pots, coil and slab building. Specific projects and techniques will be explored as you get more comfortable and skilled at working with clay. No beginner instruction will be given. Please take a beginner class if you are new to clay.
25 lbs of clay included.

​Large items or excessive quantities of work will incur a firing fee.

Private Lessons: Choose to focus on hand-building or the potter's wheel. Get personalized instruction on centering, throwing technique, trimming, form, surface decoration and glazing. 

Your Instructors:

Jane Kleiman (@jkceramicsnj)
Jane has been working with clay for over 20 years. She received her BFA  in Photography from Mason Gross School of The Arts in 1986. After her early career in Graphic Art, she pursued Massage Therapy and Yoga Instruction, eventually finding her way back to her roots in Art. She brings a grounded approach to the process of working with clay and brings her years of work in self-discovery into her teaching. You will not only learn to build and sculpt with clay, you might also learn something about yourself!  Jane is the proud parent of two amazing kids, one with Severe Autism, so she understands just how important it is to find something that takes you out of the stress of everyday life and into the flow of the present moment. Her classes are fun and relaxing.
Vicki Stoeckel (@vickidesigns)
Vicki has loved getting her hands dirty since she was a child, making sand castles and planting gardens with her mom. After receiving her BFA in Ceramics and Painting from the University of South Florida, she began a diverse, successful 20+ year career in engineering & networking and spent a few years working and traveling in Europe. She now has a home studio in Atlantic Highlands, NJ where she lives with her husband and daughter. Vicki loves teaching and sharing the magical process of working with your hands and clay. She finds this gives her students a sense of calm, a much needed escape from the everyday stresses of life, and reconnects them to their playful, experimental, selves. Vicki believes that anyone can make art and loves teaching others how to transform a lump of clay into a simple bowl or a beautiful sculpture.. Let’s play with some clay! 
Mary Lou Fulton (@maryloufulton4)
Mary Lou has been teaching Art for over 30 years. She graduated from GCU with a Bachelor's degree in Art Education, and has taught in all levels from K-12. Her wide variety of courses include: Introduction to Art, Advanced Drawing, Computer Graphics, Architecture, AP Art and Ceramics. Mary Lou enjoys watching her students gain competence and confidence as they engage in the creative process.
Margery Cohen (@margery222)
Margery has been working in ceramics for almost 20 years. Her background is with multidisciplinary arts. She specializes in intricately carved stoneware and porcelain sculpture. She lives in Middletown with her cat Grape.