Community non-credit course

For several years, Continuing Education at Champlain College-Lennoxville has been providing quality training tailored to the needs of the workforce in the Eastern Townships. In addition to our courses, the College now offers many services to individuals and businesses.

Just as individuals must change to keep up to date, so must our services. Many of the course listings you will find are specific responses to past requests from the community we serve, and we encourage you to make suggestions for new offerings you would like to see.

Course Content

These classes are designed to meet the individual needs of the student whether a beginning potter interested in creating your first work of art or a more experienced potter wanting to improve your skills. Dress for a mess! Fees include materials.
This course will introduce the students to the basic clay experience.

• Learning the hand-building techniques such as pinch, drape, press, slab, and coil.
• The use of templates, hump and slump molds.
• Put into practice the functional and non-functional wheel throwing techniques, occasionally in combination with hand-building methods.
• Introduction to decorating techniques such as mishima and sgraffito.
• The technical aspects of color slips and glazing.

Students will acquire a working knowledge of kiln procedures and experiment with slip techniques.

Cost

$310 (taxes and supplies included)