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Featured Featured Event Series Pleasing Pitchers

Pleasing Pitchers

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Seize this opportunity to engage in a mindful, semiprivate studio experience. Learn slab construction and glazing techniques to handbuild a pleasing large, medium, or small pitcher from textured clay slabs. Move from flat to freestanding using simple measurements and flat patterns. Add coiled decorations, pinched flowers, or animal forms to your pitcher bodies, handles, and […]

Event Series Tantalizing Textured Mugs

Tantalizing Textured Mugs

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Take advantage of this unique opportunity for a mindful, semiprivate studio experience. Learn slab construction and glazing techniques to handbuild two tantalizing mugs from textured clay slabs. Move from flat to free-standing using simple measurements and flat patterns. Build mugs that are round, oval, three or four footed, or darted with pedestals. You won’t be […]

Drink Up! Cups, Mugs, & More

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Using templates, the slab roller, and extruded clay slabs, you will learn different handbuilding practices to make drinking vessels. Once built, we will explore different techniques for staining and glazing your pieces to finish your completed drinking vessels—drink up! Supply list online. Maximum number of students from the same household: 5. Ages 16–Adult Instructor: Maggie […]

Event Series Plates, Platters, & Tumblers

Plates, Platters, & Tumblers

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Working from templates, we will handbuild and decorate a plate and tumbler. Slab rolled clay will be transformed into functional ware that is fun and useful! After your pieces have been fired once, they will be decorated with underglaze decals to reflect your own personal artistic statement. Colors, patterns, and designs are determined by each […]

Event Series Whimsical Lidded Boxes

Whimsical Lidded Boxes

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Enjoy this unique, semiprivate studio experience. Learn slab construction and glazing techniques to handbuild whimsical lidded boxes from textured clay slabs. Move from flat to free-standing using simple measurements and flat patterns. The boxes you build can be further embellished with decorative elements made from slabs, coils, and pinched shapes. These lidded boxes are pure […]

Refine Your Black and White Darkroom Printing Skills

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Spend three hours learning to refine your black and white darkroom printing skills with private instruction in contrast filters, split-filter printing, cropping, and positioning for artful presentations. This darkroom experience will help you bring your printing skills to the next level and encourage you to produce prints that you will be excited to enter in […]

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Ceramic Serving Set

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Dive into this crash course in ceramics, using handbuilding techniques to create your own tableware. You will be presented with project ideas from which you will design, create, and glaze a small set of unique utilitarian ware based on the slab, coil, strap, and molding techniques demonstrated. Supply list online. Maximum number of students from […]

Cutting into Color

Bemis School of Art 818 Pelham Pl, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Matisse traded in his paint brush for a pair of scissors and you can, too! Explore collage using various layering techniques as Matisse did. Use found, prepared, and altered papers of various textures along with paints and pastels to create fabulous out-of-the box compositions. There is an $8 material fee per person payable to the […]