Tag: pottery

Handmade Pottery Class explores with talent

Jeff Wilson Seldom has a pottery class started out so fast with people making such unique, creative projects. Friendly and sharing, these people inspired each other to go beyond what they thought they were capable of. Projects included decoratively embossed plates and bowls, large appliqued platters with fish, bird or flower handles, sculptural luminarias and…

Handmade pottery class

Jeff Wilson Pictured here are the participants in the November handmade pottery class. This group got off to a fast start by learning the tools and techniques necessary to make virtually any handmade pottery project. By the end of the eight sessions, everyone had made five or six beautiful items including decorative plates and appliqued…

Pottery/Sculpture featured artist

  Jeff Wilson Susan (pronounced Suzanne) Hill is this month’s featured Pottery/Sculpture Club artist. Susan is a well-traveled lady, first as a child born into a military family and later traveling the world accompanying her husband on business. Susan’s artistic interests for many years were focused on collecting jewelry stones, rocks and other crafty items.…

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…

Handmade Pottery Class

Jeff Wilson The fun continued in the 17th edition of the Handmade Pottery Class in September. This Pottery/Sculpture Club sponsored class is taught almost every month and is always well attended. The techniques necessary to create virtually any handmade pottery project were taught in the first two weeks. The goal of the instructors was to…

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…

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…

PebbleCreek Pottery class

Pottery class participants learn the terminology, tools and techniques to make projects of their own choosing.

Jeff Wilson The April Handmade Pottery class got off to a fast start by making large platters with 3-d embellishments of dragonflies, frogs, koi and flowers. This is the fourteenth time this class has been taught in the past two years by resident instructors Jeff and Terry Wilson. In this seven-session class participants learn the…