Clay Space reopened in June for classes and studio use is scheduled through our new reservation system. We are currently completing the class session started in March! Our August summer session will be shorter than usual — It might be a good time to explore a new interest or work with a different instructor!! Shortened studio hours for the summer will help us maintain a safe environment and allow for a gradual ramp up to a full schedule this fall.
Monday: 10am-6:30pm
Tuesday - Thursday: 10am-6pm
Friday: 10am-5pm
Saturday: 11am-5pm
Sunday: Closed
All studio use is by reservation only except for quick drop off or pick up of items.
Thank you for your patience!
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LATE SUMMER CLASSES • 2020
Session 4: August 1 — September 5
(5 weeks unless noted)
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Magical Mondays with Porcelain Katie Swenson
Mondays 12pm to 3pm
August 3 to August 31
Capture the essence of summer in translucent porcelain. Katie has been offering her style of hand building and we continue to be delighted with all that can be created from this brilliant clay!
Winter season is now underway! Capture the essence of this season in translucent porcelain. Katie has been offering her style of hand building and we continue to be delighted with all that
can be created from this brilliant clay
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Intermediate Wheel - PM
Exploring Thrown Tea Sets through Surface Decoration
Tabitha BuzbyMondays 7pm to 9pm
August 3 to August 24 (4 weeks)
This class will build upon skills learned in beginning through intermediate level ceramics to design and create a tea set.
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Intermediate Wheel - AM
Designing & Making for the Table
Dan Schmitt
Tuesdays 11am to 1pm
August 4 to September 1
Pottery made for eating and drinking, food service, and food display has been at the core of ceramics for centuries. This five week course will be based around making pottery for food service, food display, and dinnerware.
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Evening Handbuilding
Vessels at Your Service!
Jason Solomon
Tuesdays 6:30pm to 8:30pm
August 4 to September 1
A hand building overview for all skill levels and interests, with an emphasis on purpose-built serving vessels.
more information
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Intro to Wheel Throwing — Afternoon
Jason Solomon
Wednesdays 12pm to 2pm
August 5 to September 2
Interested in trying out the potter's wheel? Discover the secrets of making pots. Learn and develop the basic skills of wedging, centering, and creating forms on the wheel.
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Intro to Wheel Throwing — PM
Mariah Williams
Wednesdays 7pm to 9pm
August 5 to September 2
Dabble in the process of creating on the potter’s wheel. Learn or develop the foundations of wedging, centering, and creating forms on the wheel.
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Morning Handbuilding: Patterns & Textures
Emily Bellehumeur & Denise RailsbackThursdays 11am to 1pm
August 6 to September 3
Experience a variety of approaches to hand building. In this class you’ll have a chance to try different techniques and effects.
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Intro To Clay: Handbuilding on Saturdays
Denise Railsback
Saturdays 11:30am to 1:30pm
August 1 to August 29
Enjoy a hands-on, creative experience that introduces you to the properties of clay and guides you through the steps needed to create a finished piece.
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Sundays with Porcelain (Beginning)
Katie Swenson
Sundays 1pm to 4pm
August 2 to August 30
Summer is here and what to do?! Consider a resolution to let yourself play with clay and spend Sunday afternoon learning about Porcelain.
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The following workshops will be rescheduled.
If you are not currently on a registration or interest list and would like to be, please call us at 541-653-8089 or send us an email.
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Monster Planters
James DeRosso
Saturday, March 28th | 2 Sessions: 4pm & 6pm Rescheduled date will be announced!
A spin-off on our popular Monster Workshop!
It’s a great time for all ages — sculpt in clay and create your own little monster planter, complete with colorful glazing and terribly cute appeal. Make a little (disgusting) monstrous creature to hold your favorite succulent or air plant!
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Layered Moon Pendant with Tiny Parts Donna Yutzy
Wednesday, April 8th | 5:30pm to 9pm & continued on
Thursday, April 9th| 5:30pm to 6:30pm Rescheduled date will be announced!
This pendant of layered metal clay tiny parts has an elegant look. We will learn to create components from scratch and use tiny molds to create others and learn ways of attaching them.
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Stone Setting with Pre-made Settings
Donna Yutzy
Wednesday, May 20| 5:30pm to 9pm & continued on
Thursday, May 21| 5:30pm to 6:30pm Rescheduled date will be announced!
Stone setting can be a labor-intensive process in Metal Clay. This class will offer you the ability of setting natural stones and Cubic Zirconia in fine silver pre-made settings.
more information
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A GOOD DEAL... DID YOU KNOW?
Our throwing and hand building classes are a GOOD DEAL!
With each class session you enroll in, our students receive instruction from professional ceramic instructors AND students have unlimited access to working in the Clay Space studio during regular open hours. This access begins with the first day of class and runs through the last day of class. It’s a good deal!
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THE STORE AT CLAY SPACE
Your purchases help support local artists and help support the operation of Clay Space as an artistic and educational facility in our community. Find affordable and pleasure-giving handmade objects, ceramic and otherwise. T-shirts, aprons and tool kits are also available.
Gift certificates can be purchased and used for store merchandise, classes, and clay packages.
Open during all Clay Space open hours!
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PRODUCTION SERVICES AT CLAY SPACE
Did you know? Clay Space, besides having a focus on education and developing the craft of ceramics, is also a production-capable facility?
We have the knowledge, experience and capacity to do small production runs – let us help you bring your vision and product to life!
We are equipped with both slip-casting equipment and a hydraulic press. If you have a project in mind, we'd love to talk with you!
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PRIVATE STUDIOS
Looking for private studio space?
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REOPENING CHANGES
June 2020
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In order to monitor the
numbers of people in the studio at any one time, studio use will be scheduled by reservation.
You can download our pdf with instructions on how to use the new system through
Sign Up Genius.
You can also go directly to the Sign Up Genius website —
Create an account, and search
for Clay Space's reservation
page by entering our email address: office@clayspaceonline.com
Or, use this link
to get to our page!
We encourage you to create an account and bookmark it on your computer or smart device so it’s easy to access in the future!
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New rules for the studio have been created to help keep us all healthy and safe. Masks are required in the studio. Please open and carefully read our new rules.
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NEW GUEST INSTRUCTOR
DAN SCHMITT
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Dan has been active in ceramics for over twenty-five years working as a potter and
educator. His interest in ceramics developed while in college at the University of Puget
Sound where he earned a BA in Art and later went on to earn an MFA in Ceramics from
Kent State University. Dan moved to Eugene in 1998 setting up his first ceramics studio, and over the years has taught classes at the University of Oregon, Lane Community College, for Lane Arts Council, and the EMU Crafts Center. Teaching has always been a passion for Dan. He enjoys the give and take that learning with students affords. Outside of the studio Dan is a mental health therapist working in private
practice.
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HORIZONTALLY LAYERED COLORED CLAY WORKSHOP
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One More Time this Year! Horizontaly Layered Colored Clay workshop — for the many people who have been through the studio and admired both Allan’s work and the results of student exploration with these concepts.
We'll be scheduling Allan's workshop for 5 weeks in the late summer/early fall. Are you interested? Please give us a call. As dates are worked out, we'll be in touch with those who are interested!
Join us for another offering of this workshop on working with horizontally layered colored clay. This is a technique Allan has been exploring in recent years as he renewed his interest in clay and color bands — and their relationship to landscape forms and metaphorical possibilities. This workshop meets over 4 weeks; includes independent studio work that will need to be accomplished during these 4 weeks; and concludes with a 4th and final meeting time. This final meeting time will include class discussion followed by a photo shoot with a professional studio photographer. Participants need to be able to attend all 5 class sessions. Instructor will be available outside of class during several planned “studio hours”. Open to all levels; some experience necessary. Limited to 12 participants. Class materials will be based on working with a white cone 5 clay.
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Your purchases contribute to our educational and artistic endeavors!
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George Kokis
We have a beautiful selection of work by George Kokis available for purchase. George Kokis, honored teacher and friend to Jim Laub, has chosen Clay Space to showcase works from his personal collection that are being offered for sale to benefit Clay Space. We feel privileged to be custodians of George's work and legacy. Ask about our special holiday pricing!
Please visit the gallery or call 541-653-8089 to purchase.
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ARTIST | INSTRUCTOR
KAREN PERKINS
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Karen has been working with clay for nearly 40 years. She has exhibited work sporadically throughout those years with more of a focus on exhibiting since retiring from public school teaching. Karen taught middle school and high school art for 30 years. Many of her projects with students centered around public service and public art projects. Before and during this time, Karen taught ceramics through Maude Kerns Art Center, Lane Community College and Amazon Community Center. Karen was involved in helping Clay Space with some of our original class and studio plans. She began teaching occasional and specialty classes at Clay Space when she retired in 2011. We're glad to have her working with us!
Viz City interview with Karen for KLCC Radio on January 24, 2018.
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Karen's pieces are wheel thrown forms, subsequently manipulated with hand building processes. By stretching and compressing after the piece comes off the wheel, each form emerges spontaneously, defining its own character. Frequently working with loose sketches, she often moves from original intent, following a trail that tangents the original idea. It’s a wander through the world of form, one piece evolving from the last. Most pieces begin abstract in intent, with her interest following the grace of line or curve. The clay working process often yields a sense of story. Karen's many interests (horseback riding, kayaking, gardening and music making) are present in the forms of her work. Gathering curve imagery from following the movement of a horse’s withers or jaw line; tracing the flow of a tree branch. She loves to create lift in these pieces, working the feet to create lightness and a precarious relationship to the earth. Pieces that reach out, suggesting gaping mouths, are at times bird-like, gestures of yearning, of request and of offering. "It pleases me to watch my images alternate between the absurd, a flowing form, and a croak, as I find strength in learning not to take myself too seriously." (Karen) Full artist statement
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The work of instructor and volunteer advisor Karen Perkins and and several Clay Space related artists, is offered for sale at Earthworks in Yachats!
Stop by when you are visiting the coast.
Later note: our guest instructor, Allan Kluber, is also represented in Earthworks!
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June 15
Classes expected to restart!
August 1
Session 4 classes start
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Clay Space
Summer Hours
starting June 15, 2020
SIX DAYS A WEEKJune & July
Monday
10am - 6:30pm Tuesday 10am - 6pm Wednesday 10am - 6pm Thursday
10am - 6pm Friday
10am - 5pm
Saturday
11am - 5pm
Sunday
Closed
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