Sculpture from exhibition Everyone Deserves An Ark at the Baltimore Visitor Center on view February 2 – March 31, 2007 Baltimore Clayworks Community Arts
Class and Workshop Schedule

Baltimore Clayworks is pleased to present another fun season of grant-supported programming at its satellite studio inside the Pimlico Road Arts and Community Center, located at 4330 Pimlico Road, directly across the street from St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and a free, secure parking lot.

How to Register
Advanced registration is highly recommended to reserve your space in class! Pre-register in one of the following four ways:

1. Email: Download an electronic copy of our registration form, fill it out completely with your credit card information, and email it to gallery@baltimoreclayworks.org.

2. Phone: Call 410-578-1919

3. Mail: Download, print and complete a registration form and mail with payment to Baltimore Clayworks, 5707 Smith Ave. Baltimore, MD 21209

4. In person: Drop by our gallery in Mt. Washington from 10am – 5pm, Mon - Sat.

Payment must be received on or before the first day of class. You may register on the first day of class, but only pre-registration guarantees you a spot!

Download Registration Form

Questions?
410-578-1919, ext. 20
community.arts@baltimoreclayworks.org


PIMLICO ROAD SPRING/EARLY SUMMER SCHEDULE:

Students registered in Baltimore Clayworks Pimlico Road classes during the spring/early summer session can sign up with parents/family members for a complementary shuttle service.

Shuttle Schedule Saturday 8, 2008

Departing Pimlico Road:
Departing Baltimore Clayworks:
12:00pm
3:00pm
3:30pm
6:30pm

Workshops for Senior Adults
Fee: $5 per workshop. Includes all materials.

Our Friends the Fish for Senior Adults
It is becoming increasingly important to celebrate and preserve the earth’s natural resources, like our oceans and the creatures that live in them. Participants will create 3D ocean-scapes: fish or sea creatures on coral backgrounds, which can be either free standing or mounted on the wall.
Teacher: Teresa Reuter
FP-SW3: Saturday, June 28, 10-1pm


We Can Do It!
Workshops for Adults and Children
Baltimore Clayworks invites young people to bring along a special adult for an afternoon of art-making! Each adult may accompany up to two young people ages 6-17. More than one adult may attend with a child. Fee: $5 per person. Includes all materials.

Our Friends the Fish
It is becoming increasingly important to celebrate and preserve the earth’s natural resources, like our oceans and the creatures that live in them. Children working with their special adults will create 3D ocean-scapes: fish or sea creatures on coral backgrounds, which can be either free standing or mounted on the wall.
Teacher: Theresa Reuter
FP-WC4 Saturday, June 28, 2-4pm


PIMLICO ROAD SUMMER 2008 SCHEDULE:


Senior Adult’s Clay Program

Fee: $10 per 8 week class. Includes all materials.

Student making a mosaicPlatters and Plates
This session both senior classes will be working on a decorative project. Students, please find and bring with you to class a large, deep serving platter or plate, the shape of which you especially enjoy. We will focus on refining the narrative and/or decorative techniques learned in last session’s workshops with Kyle and Kelly Phelps and David MacDonald.

Monday Seniors*
PR-S02: Mondays, July 7- August 25, 2008. 9:00-12:00pm
Teacher: Herb Massie
*This class is full. If you are new to our senior adult program, please register for Tuesdays Senior Class.

Tuesdays Seniors,
PR-SO1: Tuesdays, July 8- August 26, 2008. 9:00-12:00pm
Senior adults who have not worked in clay before are invited to join this class. New students will learn the basics of handbuilding, including pinch, slab and coil techniques, as well as various forms of surface treatment.
Teacher: Herb Massie


Workshops for Senior Adults
Fee: $5 per workshop. Includes all materials.

Scenes from Baltimore
Using Baltimore's unique architecture, students will recreate homes or special places. Focusing on building in relief students will bring Baltimore's face to clay.
PR-SW1:Thursday August 7, 10-12pm
Teacher: Ariel Plantz

It’s a wrap!
Participants will manipulate clay slabs around found objects to create a functional and/or aesthetically pleasing three-dimensional form. We will explore surface treatment for added interest.
PR-SW2: Thursday, August 21, 10-12pm
Teacher: Carolyn Phillips


For Younger Students:
Fee: $10 per 6 week class. Includes all materials.

Child in Forrest Park classCharacters in Clay (Ages 10-13)
Using found objects and a variety of media, students will create works of art while learning about the environment they are created for. Students will also create stories, poems and plays to enhance our artworks.
Teacher: Ariel Plantz
PR-CO1: Saturday, July 12- August 16, 2008
9:00-11:00pm

Planes, Trains and Whacha-ma-call-its (Ages 6-9)
Using various handbuilding techniques and molds students will work with Mr. Herb to create imaginative, whimsical flying/driving whacha-ma-call-its with wings and wheels in this class.
Teacher: Herb Massie
PR-C02: Saturday, July 12- August 16, 2008
11:30-1:30pm


We Can Do It!

Workshops for Adults and Children
Baltimore Clayworks invites young people to bring along a special adult for an afternoon of art-making! Each adult may accompany up to two young people ages 6-17. More than one adult may attend with a child. Fee: $5 per person. Includes all materials.

Animal Magnetism
Students will create their own wildly expressive sculptures by looking at some fantastical animal art, both real and imagined.
PR-WC1: Saturday, July 26, 3-5 pm
Teacher: Ariel Plantz

Face it:
Participants will create a relief plaque (in black and white or complementary colors) featuring three different expressions of a stylized face contained within a given shape-circle, square, rectangle, etc.
PR-WC2 Wednesday, August 13, 3-5pm
Teacher: Carolyn Phillips

Teen Class
This four week class will provide teens with a strong foundation in ceramic handbuilding techniques; pinch, coil, and slab. Pushing their own creativity, students will combine techniques to create pieces and discover many ways to glaze and use surface treatments to decorate their pieces.
Fee: $10 per person. Includes all materials.
PR-T1: Wednesday, July16-August 6, 4-6pm
Teacher: Courtney Fitzgibbon


NEW!! Workshops for Adults
Due to an overwhelming request for adult classes, we are excited to offer three workshops this summer session specifically for adults. A big hearty welcome to anyone who does not fit in the category of youth/teen or senior adult! All you in your 20’s- 50’s come on out and try your hands at clay!
Fee: $25 per person workshop. Includes all materials.

Cameos and Silhouettes.
Participants will sculpt a low-relief profile that can hang on the wall. We will pay special attention to the individual's facial proportions as well as creating a decorative frame. Bring photographs of loved ones in profile or create a self-portrait from a photograph taken by the instructor on site.
PR-AW1: Tuesday July 22, 6-8pm
Teacher: Trisha Kyner

Clay box by A-Team student Shazna Cannady-Murray 2006No Wheel, No Problem!
This workshop is a crash course In hand building for any skill level; students will learn the basic techniques and embrace their own unique prints in clay.
PR-AW2: Tuesday, August 5, 6-8pm
Teacher: Ariel Plantz

Platters, Plates, bowls or Planters
Using molds, students will create a platter, plate, bowl or planter with a slab of clay. The pieces will be decorated with colorful underglazes and carving.
PR-AW3 Tuesday, August 12, 6-8pm
Teacher: Herb Massie


Refund Policy


Please remember that the fee students pay for classes is a registration fee and that actual tuition expenses for Baltimore Clayworks Community Arts Programming are generously underwritten by funders from the community. Our refund policy is as follows:

• If a student wishes to cancel a registration up to seven days before the first class, the student must contact Clayworks’ community arts office, and the full fee will be refunded.

Registration fees are non-refundable and non-transferable any time after six days before the first day of class. Therefore, if a student wishes to withdraw after the first class has taken place, the registration fee will not be returned.

• We reserve the right to cancel classes if the minimum enrollment is not reached. In this case, the full registration fee will be returned or it may be used toward another class.


Photography
By enrolling in a class, students/legal guardians grant permission for Baltimore Clayworks to use images of students and/or their artwork in related publications. Students may request in writing to be omitted from any photography or they may request it at the time photos are being taken.


Baltimore Clayworks extends it most gracious thanks to the following institutions for their support of Baltimore Clayworks Community Arts Programming:
The Beechmont Foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
Family League of Baltimore City, Inc.
National Endowment for the Arts

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