Students will learn how to use a slab roller, cut clay, finish edges, and shape using foam. We will use stamps or rollers for texture and interes . You can shape it like a spoon or make an abstract shape; use next to your cooktop or use as an appetizer tray. These make nice gifts; unique and made by you!
Your creations will be finished with an oxide wash and food-safe clear glaze by a Hoffman Clay Studio Volunteer.
Finished pieces will be ready in 4 - 6 weeks. Pieces can be shipped if necessary; students pay shipping costs.
Instruction, material and firings included.
Open to 16+
About the instructor: Mary Roberts is a ceramic artist living near Neahkahnie beach on the north Oregon coast. Her work is primarily thrown on the potter’s wheel.
She uses near-to-porcelain stoneware and rustic tawny clay to create elegant and contemporary forms with a fresh feeling. After shaping to a refined surface, she carves, etches, and applies wax-resist patterns, slips or glazes. Roberts is most inspired by contemporary British and Scandinavian ceramics and modern Japanese textile design and ceramics. All her work is intended to be functional. Roberts retired as a consumer brand business executive at age 60. As a lifetime collector of hand-made ceramics, she then had the time to dedicate herself to creating this art form. She studied ceramics at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Multnomah Art Center, Portland, Oregon where she was an open studio participant.
She is a member of the Oregon Potters Association and is represented by the Riversea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
Mary is also a former Hoffman Center board member and leader, and we're glad to welcome her back to the clay studio, this time as an instructor.
Students will learn how to use a slab roller, cut clay, finish edges, and shape using foam. We will use stamps or rollers for texture and interes . You can shape it like a spoon or make an abstract shape; use next to your cooktop or use as an appetizer tray. These make nice gifts; unique and made by you!
Your creations will be finished with an oxide wash and food-safe clear glaze by a Hoffman Clay Studio Volunteer.
Finished pieces will be ready in 4 - 6 weeks. Pieces can be shipped if necessary; students pay shipping costs.
Instruction, material and firings included.
Open to 16+
About the instructor: Mary Roberts is a ceramic artist living near Neahkahnie beach on the north Oregon coast. Her work is primarily thrown on the potter’s wheel.
She uses near-to-porcelain stoneware and rustic tawny clay to create elegant and contemporary forms with a fresh feeling. After shaping to a refined surface, she carves, etches, and applies wax-resist patterns, slips or glazes. Roberts is most inspired by contemporary British and Scandinavian ceramics and modern Japanese textile design and ceramics. All her work is intended to be functional. Roberts retired as a consumer brand business executive at age 60. As a lifetime collector of hand-made ceramics, she then had the time to dedicate herself to creating this art form. She studied ceramics at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Multnomah Art Center, Portland, Oregon where she was an open studio participant.
She is a member of the Oregon Potters Association and is represented by the Riversea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
Mary is also a former Hoffman Center board member and leader, and we're glad to welcome her back to the clay studio, this time as an instructor.
