Clay Design E-Newsletter Fall 2010

Fall 2010 newsletter - pdf file

POTTERY CLASSES at CLAY DESIGN

Pottery lovers,
Clay Design is gearing up for Summer!! Register now for a
pottery class! All classes are mixed-level and incorporate
both hand-building and wheel throwing techniques. Take
home everything you create! Our fee of $375 (plus HST)
includes all materials. We have several 10 – week schedules to
offer you

Weekly class                     START DATES

EVENING CLASSES: Evening classes run 6:30-9:30
Monday: starts September 13/10
Tuesday: starts September 14/10
Wednesday: starts September 8/10
Thursday: starts September 16/10
Friday: starts September 10/10

DAYTIME CLASSES:
Friday 9:30-12:30 starts September 10
Sunday afternoon 1:30-4:30 starts September 13

Call, drop by or email us without delay as classes are filling up and they start SOON!

At Clay Design, we are proud of our windows!
They are the best way of showing YOU what ’s new
in our gallery.We ’d like to let you know which clay
artist's work to look out for in our upcoming window schedule

FEATURED ARTISTS Window Display Dates

Aug 21-Sept 3: Jenny Clark

Sept 4-17: Phillis McCulloch

Sept 18-Oct 1: Nancy Solway

Oct 2-15: Dennise Buckley

Oct 16-Nov 5: Louise McCann

Nov 6-19: Deborah Freeman

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OPEN HOUSE SALE

15% off for 3 days only!

Friday November 26

Saturday November 27

Sunday November 28

CLAY DESIGN STUDIO/GALLERY

(at Harbord and Brunswick Streets)

(416) 964 – 3330        sales@claydesign.ca

www.claydesign.ca                           

Your ceramic snack:

EGYPT is generally thought to
be the birthplace of THE
POTTER ’S WHEEL.
It was there, around 3000BC
that a long shaft was added
under the centre of the wheel
head (the flat, round, turning
surface used for forming wet
clay into cylindrical forms). A
heavy fly wheel at the base of
this shaft was introduced, providing
power and momentum
for the rotation of the wheel
head.

Apart from our recent harnessing
of electrical power,
the machine has remained
largely the same to this day.

FREAKY FACT: The conventional wheel head is horizontal
but there are some that are constructed to work at an
angle and still others that work upside down!!

POTTERY CLASSES

Pottery lovers, be part of our Fall CLAY CULTURE!!
Classes are mixed-level and cover hand-building and
wheel throwing techniques. Take home everything you
create! Our fee of $375 (plus HST) includes materials.

We have several 10– week schedules to offer ……..
EVENING CLASSES:
Evening classes run 6:30-9:30
Monday: starts Sept 13/10
Tuesday: starts Sept 14/10
Wednesday: starts Sept 8/10
Thursday: starts Sept16/10
Friday: starts Sept10/10
DAYTIME CLASSES:
Friday 9:30-12:30 starts Sept10
Sunday afternoon 1:30-4:30 starts Sept 13

Your ceramic snack:

George E. Ohr (1857-1918) was inventive, unconventional and technically virtuosic at wheel-thrown and altered pottery. He became known as the “Mad Potter of Biloxi” and the “Carnival Potter” due to his unusual performance approach to the craft of pottery!

Your ceramic snack:

Copper is a metal that is in many glazes. Did you know that it can provide red or green colour effects depending on the amount of oxygen available to it during a kiln firing? It’s true! Think of the oxidized copper roofs of the parliament buildings, and by contrast a new penny. The most dramatic examples of this “split personality” can be seen on some raku pottery pieces. These are exposed to mixed atmospheric conditions (both oxidation and reduction) and can display bright reds and vivid greens side by side on one surface. Thought you’d want to know. Have a great summer.

Thanks for reading. Until next time,
your friends at Clay Design