GAC Ceramic Studio


Winter/Spring Classes January - June 2010
Meet the Instructors
	Deborah Lecce is a studio potter in Carmel, NY. She has studied clay art for many years, most recently at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY and The Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, NY. Deborah co-founded a pottery studio in Brooklyn, NY where she also teaches.
	Lisa Light is a master student in the ceramic studio at Garrison Art Center. She is known for her delicate hand built forms and imaginative surface treatment. Lisa is the Birthday pARTy coordinator for the Art Center.
	Lisa Knaus, the newly hired studio manager, is a wheel potter from the New Paltz area who exhibits nationally. Lisa is known for her exquisite functional pots and particularly for her amazing surface and glazing techniques.
	Virginia Piazza, received a BFA in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 1990, and has been working as a studio potter as well teaching classes in various venues in NYC, Beacon, and Port Chester since then. She creates intimate thrown and hand built pots which pay tribute to the idea of “handmade”. She has exhibited her work nationally and was included in “500 Teapots” and “Best of Pottery” published by Quarry Books in 1996.
	Beth Bolgla received an MFA in Ceramics from Georgia State University in 1978, and continued graduate studies in Art History. Her lively and rich career creating, exhibiting and teaching, evolved from functional wheel thrown pottery, to sculptural hand built narrative vessels, to 2D images of vessels, paintings, to most recently, ceramic tile making and mosaics, which literally fuses her ceramic knowledge with her innate abilities in composition and color combining. In 2000, Beth was invited by the US State Department to participate in the International Women’s Art Exhibition in Aleppo, Syria. She was also hired to conduct workshops with groups of women in Syria and Saudi Arabia, and with senior level art students at the University of Damascus. Beth’s work has been collected nationally and internationally by individuals, corporations, and museums.
	Kim Waldhauer took her first clay class at the Garrison Art Center in 2000. She has studied with Pangea Bohl, Mikhail Zakin, and Susan Beecher. She currently assists Lisa Knaus in the Art Center's Ceramic Studio.
View of Garrison's Landing from the Pottery Studio (click for detail view)
General Information for Students
Various levels of experience can be accomodated in each class due to the one-on-one nature of instruction. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and teens 15+. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes. All classes are 8 week sessions. In addition to tuition of $260 per class, there are fees for clay and firing. All classes are open to all levels of proficiency. All class tuition should be paid at the time of registration. Checks should be made out to Garrison Art Center or register online. All students are encouraged to work in the studio during the open studio times, which will be posted in the studio.
Course Descriptions and Schedule print schedule
Pottery on the Wheel with Lisa Knaus Sunday, 11am - 2pm, $260 Starting Jan. 17
	Learn skills to create vessels using the potter's wheel, starting with instruction in throwing, and moving on to techniques in surface decoration and glazing. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and older teens. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes.
Pottery on the Wheel with Beth Bolgla Monday, 11am - 2pm, $260 Starting Jan. 18
	Learn skills to create vessels using the potter's wheel, starting with instruction in throwing, and moving on to techniques in surface decoration and glazing. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and older teens. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes.
KIDS! Throwing on the Wheel with Lisa Light Monday, 4 - 6 pm, $175 plus clay and firing fees Starting Jan. 18 Open to children ages 12 and up.
Pottery on the Wheel with Lisa Knaus Monday, 6:30 - 9:30pm, $260 Starting Jan. 18
	Learn skills to create vessels using the potter's wheel, starting with instruction in throwing, and moving on to techniques in surface decoration and glazing. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and older teens. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes.
KIDS! Hand Building with Clay with Lisa Light Tuesday, 4 - 5:30pm, $160 plus clay and firing fee Starting Jan. 19
	Learn basic hand building techniques including pinching, coiling, and slab construction. There will also be an overview of surface treatments and glazing options. This class is a good compliment to students taking wheel classes who want to explore combining techniques. Limited to 8 students. Open to children age 7 - 9.
Pottery on the Wheel with Virginia Piazza Tuesday, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, $260 Starting Jan. 19
	Learn skills to create vessels using the potter's wheel, starting with instruction in throwing, and moving on to techniques in surface decoration and glazing. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and older teens. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes.
Pottery on the Wheel with Lisa Knaus Wednesday, 6:30 - 9:30pm, $260 Starting Jan. 20
	Learn skills to create vessels using the potter's wheel, starting with instruction in throwing, and moving on to techniques in surface decoration and glazing. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and older teens. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes.
KIDS! Hand Building with Clay with Lisa Light Thursday, 4 - 5:30pm, $160 plus clay and firing fee Starting Jan. 21
	Learn basic hand building techniques including pinching, coiling, and slab construction. There will also be an overview of surface treatments and glazing options. This class is a good compliment to students taking wheel classes who want to explore combining techniques. Limited to 8 students. Open to children age 10 - 12.
Pottery on the Wheel with Deborah Lecce Thursday, 6:30 - 9:30pm, $260 Starting Jan. 21
	Open to adults and older teens.
Hand Building with Clay with Kim Waldhauer Friday, 11am - 2pm, $260 Starting Jan. 22
	Learn basic hand building techniques including pinching, coiling, and slab construction. There will also be an overview of surface treatments and glazing options. This class is a good compliment to students taking wheel classes who want to explore combining techniques. Limited to 8 students.
	Various levels of experience can be accomodated in each class due to the one-on-one nature of instruction. Limited to 8 students. Open to adults and teens 15+. In addition to tuition, there are clay and firing fees for all ceramic classes.

Garrison Art Center is a not-for-profit organization with programs and exhibitions made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Garrison Art Center is a member of New York Multi-Arts Centers Consortium which receives funds from NYSCA.