Class 53. Ceramic Hand-building: Coffee Vessels with Tia Hill | Athenaeum Art Center
January 9, 2025: 6 PM - 9 PM
January 14, 2025: 6 PM - 9 PM
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2 Tuesdays and 1 Thursday, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
January 7, 9, and 14
(3 days, 9 total hours of instruction)
AAC Art Studio
How do you like your coffee? Made with your own two hands! Let's move away from the disposable cup and make something that lasts.
In this beginner-friendly course, students will learn hand-building techniques—pinch, coil, and slab—to create functional drinking vessels.
We will give special attention to coffee cups to encourage students to enhance their own morning coffee rituals; however, any favorite beverage will fit.
We will learn to handbuild:
mugs (cups with handles)
tumblers (cups without handles)
espresso cups
matching saucers
matcha bowls
pour over coffee drippers
While this is a beginner-friendly course, intermediate and advanced students may join.
Students will learn how to:
Wedge clay
Roll out slabs using a rolling pin and wooden guides
Utilize hand-building techniques for form and function
Use templates
Compress & strengthen clay to reduce air bubbles, cracks, and warping during the drying process
Make handles
Trim and carve into leather hard clay
Apply decoration and texture
Glaze vessels and reduce mishaps
Materials: Clay will be provided. Please purchase a standard-size rolling pin and beginner’s pottery tool kit. Tools can be purchased locally at Freeform Ceramics in National City. We will also learn how to improvise tools with common household items.
Please bring a notebook / sketchbook to class to keep track of wonderful ideas.
Max students: 12
Athenaeum Art Center
Art classes are offered currently at our La Jolla home, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library and are now being offered at our newest studio,Athenaeum Art Center, at Bread & Salt in Logan Heights. Our experienced instructors are all exhibiting artists themselves. They teach classes in painting, drawing, watercolor, mixed media, sculpture, photography and print making. Several classes can be taken for credit through UCSD Extension. Classes are offered on a quarterly schedule and students can find out about the class schedule either online or from our quarterly school brochure. We are making adjustments to our class registration system online. When ordering your class through the website it will read as "tickets." Please feel free to call us and order over the phone if you have any concerns. Parking: There is a free parking lot in the alley off Dewey St. behind the Athenaeum Art Center between Julian Ave. and Kearney Ave. available for use by students. There is also ample free street parking on Julian Avenue that is untimed. A limited number of handicapped spots are available in front of the entrance to the Bread & Salt building. For further information, to register and/or receive a copy of our current brochure, please call (858) 454-5872. Financial support is provided in part by the City of San Diego Commission for the Arts and Culture.