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What We Offer
CCC's year-round programming includes weekly classes for adults & children, weekend workshops, artist residency program, and community outreach. We also offer a wide selection of Paint Your Own Bisqueware! This is a great opportunity for the un-experienced to come and decorate a bowl, plate, piggy bank, etc . of your own.
Financial aid, scholarships, and work exchange are available to help students cover the costs of classes or workshops. Please see our financial aid information below to learn more.
Download Summer 2010 Class Schedule
Adult Classes
All Carbondale Clay Center adult students have full access to the studio between classes. Wheel throwers can come in during hand-building classes and vice versa.
For more information or to register for any classes or workshops, call the Clay Center office at 970.963.2529.
Adult classes meet once a week, with 24/7 studio access when other classes are not meeting.
Registration deadline: Friday prior to each six-week session.
June 2nd-July 6th
Handbuilding Ceramic Sculpture and Functional Forms
Come expand and learn new skills with our Returning Resident Artists.
Wednesday nights: 6:30-9:00pm
Instructors: Elliot Marquet & Holly Curcio
cost:$195 for non-members
$ 180 for members
June 7th-July 12th
Wheel Working and Surface Decoration with Steven
Steven returns for another information packed class before he leaves the Valley for graduate school.
Monday nights: 6:30-9:00pm
Instructor: Steven Colby
cost:$195 for non-members
$180 for members
July 6th- 9th Tues-Fri
Colorful Clay and Tile Making and Slab Constructed Pots Workshop: Exploring Surface Decoration Techniques with Jan and Michael
Come with a small tile project in mind or come to explore the wealth of surface information and get inspired by the wonderful energy of Jan and Michael. Build tiles, pots and sculpture. Design a tile project and get installation advice.
SS5: Tuesday- Friday 9:00-3:00pm
Instructor: Jan Edwards & Michael Stranahan
Ages: 9 -adult
cost: $45 a day, 4 day min. non member
$40 member
July 13th-16th Tues-Fri
Jan and Michael Continues their Workshop
SS6: 9:00-3:00pm
Instructor: Jan & Michael
Ages: 9-adult
cost: $45 a day, 4 day min. non member
$40 member
July 19th-August 23rd
All Levels Handbuilding and Throwing with the Dynamic Duo Newlyweds
Join Kelly and Mark post-wedding for this productive 6 week class
Monday nights:6:30-9:00pm
Instructors: Mark Harro and Kelly McKibben Harro
cost:$195 for non-members
$180 for members
Click Here for Fall Workshops with K Rhynus Cesark and Diane Kenney
Summer Kids Camps
Summer Clay Camps for Kids
Serving ages 4 - 19
June 2,3,4th
Pre-K’s and K’s ages 4-5
Everyday is a new exploration and discovery in clay. Each child may attend 1 session per day.
6/2- 9:00-10:00am.
Animal Incredible
10:30-11:30am.
Tea Time Make your own creative cup and saucer
6/3- 9:00-10:00am.
Paint your Own Dinnerware
10:30-11:30am...
Animal Incredible
6/4-9:00-10:00am.
Balloon Buddies
10:30-11:30am
Shake Rattle Roll
Instructor: Penny Greenwell
Ages: 4-5 year olds Pre-K and K
cost: $20 a session non member
$15 a session for member
June 7th-11th
Clay Castles, Space Stations and Habitats and Ruins
Create your fantasy dwelling, the zanier, the better. Moats and spaceships are welcome.
SS1: 9:30-12:00pm
Instructor: Sandi Gardner
Ages: 5-10
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Bigger the Better
Figures, Form and Fantasy
Join Kelly and sculpt a large piece; real or fantastical!
SS1: 1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Kelly McKibben
Ages: 7-13
cost:$175.00
$155.00
June 14th-18th
Beads, Boxes and Secret Storage Containers
Everyone keeps special objects….join us and build some special places to hide them.
SS2: 9:30-12:00pm
Instructor: Alix Knipe
Ages: 5-10
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Sit and Spin
Wheel Throwing Boot Camp
Join Anne and learn the Boot Camp Basics of the potters wheel. It’s harder than it looks but even more fun! Come and spin and be prepared to get DIRTY!!
SS2: 1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Anne Goldberg
Ages: 9-14
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00
June 21st-25th
Clay and Story / Sculpture Garden
Bring your favorite book and or garden to life. Come create special art for your real or imagined garden.
SS3: 9:30-12:00pm
Instructor: Sandi Gardner
Ages:6-12
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Wheel Throwing Boot Camp
Learn how to use the potters wheel. It’s harder then it looks but even more fun! Come ready to get DIRTY!
SS3:1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Alix Knipe
Ages:8-15
cost:$175.00
$155.00
June 28th-July 2nd
Pre-K and K
Wed. 9:30-11:00am “Animal Fantastical”. Let your imagination run & invent crazy animals!!
Instructor: Kasey Bullerman
Thurs. 9:30-11:00am “Home on the Range”, swing into the Clay Center for some down home fun….
Instructor: Kasey Bullerman
Fri. 9:30-11:00 am Paint your Own Dinnerware, Calling all future designers to decorate your own place setting!!!
Instructor: Penny Greenwell
cost: $25 non member
$20 member
Totems and Towers
Come handbuild towering teetering totems that reach high to the sky!!!
Session concludes with a tower building contest…where everyone wins!
SS4: 1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Alix Knipe
Ages: 7-13
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
July 6th- 9th Tues-Fri
Colorful Clay and Tile Making and Slab Constructed Pots Workshop: Exploring Surface Decoration Techniques with Jan and Michael
Come with a small tile project in mind or come to explore the wealth of surface information and get inspired by the wonderful energy of Jan and Michael. Build tiles, pots and sculpture. Design a tile project and get installation advice.
SS5: Tuesday- Friday 9:00-3:00pm
Instructor: Jan Edwards & Michael Stranahan
Ages: 9 -adult
cost: $45 a day, 4 day min. non member
$40 member
July 13th-16th Tues-Fri
Jan and Michael Continues their Workshop
SS6: 9:00-3:00pm
Instructor: Jan & Michael
Ages: 9-adult
cost: $45 a day, 4 day min. non member
$40 member
July 19th-23rd
Up with Green
Sculpture Gardens and Stepping Stones
Create special things for the garden. Step between the flowers on stones created by you.
SS7: 9:30-12:00pm
Instructor: Penny Greenwell
Ages: 5-10
cost: $175 non member
$155 member
“Musical Clay” Drums, Whistles, Maracas and More
Make your own instruments out of clay and then make your own music!
SS7: 1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Kelly McKibben
Ages: 7-13
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
July 26th-30th
Birds of a Feather, birdhouses, bird baths and things that fly
Celebrate our feathered friends and handbuild creative things for them to enjoy!
SS8: 9:30-12:00pm
Instructor: Kasey Bullerman
Ages: 5-10
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Mosaic Mania, Reclaimed Recycled Sculpture decorated with mosaic
Go “green” with clay. Make an old object new with your imagination.
SS8:1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Penny Greenwell
Ages:8-14
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
August 2nd-6th
Raku Magic from 0 to 1800 in 1 hour or so! RAKU Pots, Parts and Pieces
Handbuild sculptures to Raku Fire
SS9: 9:30-12:00pm
Instructor:Kasey Bullerman
Ages: 8-16
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Make It! Play It! Clay Games; Checkers, Chess Tic Tac Toe, Mancala and More
Make your favorite games out of clay or invent , design and build one from your imagination!
SS9:1:30-4:00pm
Instructor:Penny Greenwell
Ages:6-12
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
August 9th-13th
Table for 2 with Ice Cream Dishes Daringly Designed Delicious Dinner and Dessertware Make dishes for your own dinner table and don’t forget the icecream! Concludes with Ice-Cream Social August 14th.
SS10:9:30-12:00pm
Instructor: TBA
Ages:7-14
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Sculpture Garden..Clay Prints
Let your imagination go and create all kinds of fun sculpture and find out what objects make great prints in clay.
SS10:1:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Alix Knipe
Ages:7-14
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
August 16th-20th
Over/Under Water World Aquarium/Terrarium
Sharks, fish,eels, rays, iguanas, snakes, and lizards. Add to your own pet homes or create clay pets of your own and an environment for them to live in.
SS11:9:30-12:00pm
Instructor:Sandi Gardner
Ages:5-10
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
Pots, Parts and Pieces
Wheel Throwing Boot Camp Basics and Beyond
Learn how to work on the wheel or perfect your wheel throwing if you have already been through boot camp.
SS11:1:30-4:00pm
Instructor:Kelly McKibben
Ages:8-14
cost:$175.00 non member
$155.00 member
New Extra Session
August 23rd-27th
Pre-K Session Ages 4-5
Mon: Waterworld creatures from the sea and beyond
Tues: Animal Incredible sculpt your favorite animal!!!
Weds: Custom Kid-Sized Dinnerware Paint Your Own place setting ……
Thurs: Nest, Dinosaurs, Birds, and More…….
AM:9-10:30
Instructors: TBA
Ages 4 -5
cost:$25 a Session non member
$20 member
New Teen Raku Workshop
2 Saturdays
June 5th 9am-12pm
June 12th 9am-2pm
Teens are invited to explore the ancient art of Raku Firing!!
See your piece go from 0 to1800 degrees and back to room temperature again in 2 hours…WOW!
Instructor: Anne Goldberg
Ages: 13-19
cost: $125 non member
$115 member
The Carbondale Clay Center offers a number of financial aid/scholarships as well as work exchange at the rate of $10 per hour outside of class time. Parents may exchange work for all or part of their child’s class tuition.
The Clay Center wants all children who would benefit from art programs to participate in Clay Center programs, and therefore welcomes contributions from the community to support scholarships and financial aid.
To apply for financial aid, scholarships, and/or work exchange, please email the Clay Center or call (970) 963-CLAY (2529).
