Serving the Pottery Community
Events
Wild Clay and Glaze Clinic with Hamish Jackson
We’ll take a walk around the Rogue Valley and forage for wild clay. Hamish Jackson will teach you how to turn this raw material into a useful substance with the understanding of chemistry. How to test and retest your results. To create something that accentuates your creative process and gives a uniqueness to your work from locally sourced materials.
Hamish Jackson is coming to us from the English midlands and has recently relocated to Eugene Oregon. He has a wealth of experience building pieces from the ground up and is bringing his understanding of raw material chemistry to help deepen our understanding of wild clay!
Tool Making and More with Jim Nordal
Coming to us from Cave Junction, Jim Nordal is a curiosity driven teacher who will bring in his methods of making pottery tools of all kinds. You’ll learn how to make your own trimming and carving tools and walk away with a complete set of tools customized to your designs. We’ll also be making a few porcelain texture rollers that we’ll be sculpting. Jim has so many inspiring methods of tool ingenuity that you’ll learn and come away feeling equipped to create your own custom tool kit.
Lunch provided (cannot accommodate dietary restrictions)
Mother’s Day Scraffito Circle
Event Details: Join us for a wonderful afternoon of pottery, creativity, and socializing! Bring a snack to share—wine and beverages will be provided by RVPS.
Pottery 101
Pottery 101 is a basic introduction into the art and application of ceramics. The perfect gathering for someone with no pottery experience, or maybe someone who hasn’t touched clay since high school to get acquainted and comfortable with the creative process, tools and materials of the trade.
Relief Tile and Plaster Mold Workshop with Julie Furrer
Julie will teach how to build a relief tile with the right dimensions that will give the best result for long lasting tiles with no warping. Everyone will sculpt their tiles and their design of choice and we will build plaster molds from this sculpted tile. You will learn how to press those tiles and different methods for extracting them. Also the drying process and how to minimize warping.
Julie has been making tile since 2020 and has tried a lot of different methods. She’ll show you all the ways to troubleshoot different design goals and how to finish the piece best.
Kiln Maintenance Workshop
You will learn
Essential Kiln Loading
Maintenance and Firing practices
Kiln Anatomy
Troubleshooting and Resources
Relief Tile and Plaster Mold Clinic
Julie will teach how to build a relief tile with the right dimensions that will give the best result for long lasting tiles with no warping. Everyone will sculpt their tiles and their design of choice and we will build plaster molds from this sculpted tile. You will learn how to press those tiles and different methods for extracting them. Also the drying process and how to minimize warping.
Julie has been making tile since 2020 and has tried a lot of different methods. She’ll show you ways to troubleshoot different design goals and how to finish the piece best.
Pottery 101
Pottery 101 is a basic introduction into the art and application of ceramics. The perfect gathering for someone with no pottery experience, or maybe someone who hasn’t touched clay since high school to get acquainted and comfortable with the creative process, tools and materials of the trade.
Holiday Scraffito Circle
Join us for a festive evening of pottery, creativity, and socializing! Bring a snack to share—wine and beverages will be provided by RVPS.
Raku Clinic
Join us for an exciting two-part Raku Clinic with Michael Campbell. This clinic is designed to show you how to build your own Raku kiln and troubleshooting firing methods.