Ages: 13+ up
Instructor: Wesley Wright
Cost: $350 ($310 + $40 Materials Fee)
Skill Level: All levels, some experience is helpful but not required
Dates: July 12 + 13 from 9:30-4:00 each day with a break for lunch.

Join ceramic artist Wesley Wright and learn to sculpt animal heads and portrait busts in clay! Participants can create any animal, exotic, common, or your own pet. Quadruped mammals are recommended. This weekend intensive will give students the opportunity to create detailed, expressive, and refined work. Wesley will demonstrate hollow building techniques, how to use reference imagery, and other processes. Day 1 will focus on establishing the overall form. Day 2 will deal with subtleties and details such as rendering eyes, flesh, musculature, and of course fur! The final product will be a fired bust or head sculpture that can be mounted on a wall or free-standing.

What to Expect
This class will include both class demonstrations and one on one instruction. Students will receive 50 lbs of clay and the class includes bisque firing. If you would prefer to take your pieces with you for firing please make sure to bring materials with you to pack it for travel. If you’d like us to fire your work to temperature (raw, no glaze) we can arrange that for an additional firing fee. Once you’ve signed up you will receive an email with details including what to bring, what to expect, etc!

CANCELLATION POLICY
Please note a minimum of 4 people is required for most classes to run. If you’ve enrolled and we don’t reach the minimum you will be issued a full refund. If you sign up and then are unable to attend for any reason there are no available refunds or credits unless we can fill your spot with someone on the waitlist, so the sooner you can let us know the better. If we have to fill your spot with someone from the waitlist there is a $20 processing fee to account for our time as well as web fees we can’t recoup. You may also opt to send someone in your stead if you cannot make it, just let us know prior to class so we can update our rosters.
If you have questions about our cancellation policy please email us before signing up.

We will send you an email with other logistics and FAQs a few days before date night! In the meantime, please email petalumapottery@gmail.com if you have any questions about classes or enrollment.