Creative Sculpture

All experience levels welcome. Join artist, educator and therapist, Jeffery Sun Young Park, in a guided series to cultivate a personal creative practice through building ceramic sculptures. Over the four sessions, participants will explore different handbuilding techniques including coils, slabs and using molds to create personal pieces. Each session will consist of class dialogue, group clay time, individual practice and creation time.

Students will learn about drying time and its integral role in assembling sculptural pieces. Jeff will teach building in parts, utilizing templates and molds, techniques for piecing parts together, clean up and finishing. With Jeff's guidance and support, participants will begin creating the steps towards planning and prepping before creation time. In-between classes participants will have the opportunity to sketch and think of ideas. It's encouraged that participants come into class with a few ideas of pieces they would like to make and a sketch book. 

Throughout the duration of the course, participants will be given clay to work with at home in order to practice and develop ideas outside of class time. Basic tools and materials are included. All pieces will be fired to cone 5, the final class will be focused on glazing and all pieces will be ready for pick up within 3 weeks of the final session.