Tag: crafting

Pottery and Sculpture Club open studio

Jeff Wilson The Pottery Room continues this fall to be a hub for creativity. Pottery classes aside, the daily open-studio has seen a steady increase in participation. Open-studio occurs seven days a week and is especially well attended in the afternoons, often times with 15 or more participating. As seen in the photo, club members…

PebbleCreek sculptor

Sheila Millendorf with her sculpture Wonderland Story Teller.

Jeff Wilson That’s amazing! Such detail! How did you do that? These exclamations and more can be heard every day Sheila Millendorf is in the pottery/sculpture room working on one of her awe-inspiring creations. The Pottery/Sculpture Club of PebbleCreek is pleased to highlight in the month of September the creativity, talent and enthusiasm of this…

Pottery/Sculpture Club sponsored clay and jewelry class

Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club of PebbleCreek sponsored a clay and mixed media jewelry class in July. Students made pendant necklaces, beaded necklaces, brooches, bracelets and more. Inspiration for projects came from many sources including African, Papua New Guinea, Native American and Pinterest. This class, like the handmade pottery class, was eight sessions in length…

Clay extruder demonstration

Chris Pelikan demonstrates how the extruder can make four-inch diameter hollow square, round and hexagonal tubes.

Jeff Wilson The Pottery Sculpture Club of PebbleCreek recently sponsored a workshop to demonstrate the creative potential and safe use of its newest tool, a clay extruder. The workshop was conducted by club member Chris Pelikan. Chris demonstrated how the extruder could make four-inch diameter hollow square, round and hexagonal tubes. After extruding the tubes…

Handmade Pottery Class

Jeff Wilson Ten people participated in the Handmade Pottery Class sponsored by the Pottery Sculpture Club of PebbleCreek. This was the fifteenth time this class has been taught by Jeff and Terry Wilson in the past two years. After making two assigned projects students made a variety of functional and sculptural objects of their own…

Desert and Fairy gardens

Frannie Hopper makes Fairy and Desert Gardens.

Maryalice Carl Sharon Pelikan, our remarkable ceramic teacher, also loves to play with clay. One of her students, Frannie Hopper, wanted to make a Fairy Garden. So Sharon said sure—I can help you with that! So, Sharon made both a Fairy Garden and a Desert Garden. Frannie made her Fairy Garden with Sharon’s help. Before…

Knimble Kneedles news

2016 officers are Jan Hover, president, Lee Sharp, treasurer and Bonnie Griffin, secretary.

Do you love to knit or crochet or would like to learn to knit or crochet? Then come and join the Knimble Kneedles group which meets each Thursday morning from 9:00 a.m. to noon in the Creative Arts Building (Diamondback Room). We are a welcoming group of women (though men can join us, too) who…