8 Week Adult Beginner Wheel Throwing Class, 1-3pm

Come have fun exploring the beginnings of what can be done on the pottery wheel. In this class you will learn about the basic properties of clay, the foundations of working on the pottery wheel including centering, throwing and trimming, decorating and glazing techniques along with the safety around the use of the materials and the studio. Focus will be on simple forms such as cups, mugs and bowls with room to explore.

Rob Viglas earned his BFA in Sculpture, from UMass Dartmouth. After graduating he worked as a welder and apprentice to a master mold maker in an old dairy building in Pawtucket, RI. He then went on to work as a mold maker for a glass artist and a studio assistant for other artists while going back to UMass to get his K-12 teaching certificate for Art. While back at school he took a Ceramics class and was immediately hooked and did his student teaching in the clay studio at Tabor Academy. Upon finishing school, he and his wife moved to Vermont and set up a pottery studio in an old barn until they found a place in the woods nearby, where they hand built their straw bale house and plastered it with a clay based plaster. Rob was lucky enough that his first full time teaching job at MAUMS, where he ended up teaching Art for approximately ten years with his wife, had several pottery wheels and two electric kilns so he was able to introduce students to working on the wheel. Rob and his family and are in the finishing stages of building their own Art studio which includes spaces for painting, printmaking and clay with plans to build a small wood fired kiln.

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