5 Week Monday Afternoon Pottery and Wheelwork for Beginners and Improvers with Katie Hess – January 2024

We are delighted that tutor Katie Hess, will be teaching at Sundragon this New Year.

Katie’s work is all about experimenting with form, surface decoration, and always trying out new ideas.

Katie is trained to teach Art, and her main practice is ceramics.

This five week course starts on Monday 8th January 2024, in our beautiful basement Studio 2 classroom, in Moseley School of Art.

Moseley School of Art, Birmingham by Sam Mellish.

The course will take place every Monday Afternoons from 1.30pm – 4.00pm on the following dates.

• 8th January
• 15th January
• 22nd January
• 29th January
• 5th February

During the course you will learn how to “wedge”/prepare the clay ready for making.

Katie will teach you various methods of hand-building, and you will also be taught the beginnings of throwing on the potters wheel.

You will learn about surface decoration using coloured slips and various glazing techniques.

Throughout the course you will also learn “good studio practice”, the art of keeping your work area as clean/tidy as possible, thus, benefiting everyone.

This course is designed to be a short intensive introduction to ceramic life at Sundragon Community Pottery, and a general pottery class for anyone wishing to work under Katie’s supervision, to learn new, and hone existing, skills!