Master the art of working on the potter’s wheel.
Basic classes begin with fundamentals; new forms and glazing and decorating techniques are demonstrated each week. In intermediate/advanced classes, fine-tune your throwing skills and explore a variety of vessel forms. Investigate complex surface-decorating techniques and foster a personal style.
About the studios: With 25 electric potters’ wheels, a gas reduction kiln and three electric kilns, 92NY’s Ceramics Center is one of the best equipped in NYC. During the fall and spring semesters students have the opportunity to take classes using stoneware. In the summer, porcelain is the material of choice. All work is glaze-fired to cone 10. Clay is included in the cost of tuition (unless you use bagged clay, which may be purchased for $20 per 25-pound bag). Our firing charge is 5c per cubic inch for two firings for all work made in classes and workshops. Students must supply their own tools, which may be purchased from 92NY.
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Noah Heil (he/they) first fell in love with clay while attending Macalester College in his home state of Minnesota, where he studied Studio Art, Spanish & Portuguese. Noah has since continued to refine their craft and practice while working as an instructor, technician, production potter, and fabricator in various ceramics studios between the Twin Cities and NYC. Often incorporating both wheel-throwing and handbuilding techniques, Noah enjoys making work that evokes transformative and ephemeral qualities. Noah enjoys guiding others toward finding and expressing their voice in the langua ...
Noah Heil (he/they) first fell in love with clay while attending Macalester College in his home state of Minnesota, where he studied Studio Art, Spanish & Portuguese. Noah has since continued to refine their craft and practice while working as an instructor, technician, production potter, and fabricator in various ceramics studios between the Twin Cities and NYC. Often incorporating both wheel-throwing and handbuilding techniques, Noah enjoys making work that evokes transformative and ephemeral qualities. Noah enjoys guiding others toward finding and expressing their voice in the language of clay.
Wheel (Beginner)
Katie Coughlin received her MFA from The Ohio State University(2018) and her BFA from Alfred University (2010). Katie has been an Artist in Resident at Red Lodge Clay Center and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. She has received multiple awards most recently a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Katie's practice focuses on handbuilt vessels alongside performance and installation. A native New Yorker, Katie returned to the city in 2018 and lives and works in Brooklyn.
Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner)
Meiasha is an artist based in New York, born in Detroit Michigan. Meiasha uses research Evidence, and stories of familial communion within Black domestic space to inform their relationship with various objects, practices and people and has been using clay work and ceramics to extend that practice for many years. As a teacher Meiasha engages students in learning the behavior and foundational technical aspects of clay to build their own creative process with the material by setting formal aesthetic goals that represent their desired outcomes. Their skill set ranges anywhere from wheel throwin ...
Meiasha is an artist based in New York, born in Detroit Michigan. Meiasha uses research Evidence, and stories of familial communion within Black domestic space to inform their relationship with various objects, practices and people and has been using clay work and ceramics to extend that practice for many years. As a teacher Meiasha engages students in learning the behavior and foundational technical aspects of clay to build their own creative process with the material by setting formal aesthetic goals that represent their desired outcomes. Their skill set ranges anywhere from wheel throwing, building sculpture or fixing flaws.
They graduated with a BFA from Sierra Nevada College with concentration in ceramics in 2019 and has since attended artist residencies at The Anderson Ranch arts center 2019, Greenwhich house pottery 2021, and Brooklyn Clay 2023. They have shown in the Jane Hartsook gallery 2022 NY,NY, The Holland project 2019 Reno, NV. The Holman arts center 2018 Incline Village, NV.
Min Choi, born in Seoul, Korea, is a Brooklyn-based Ceramic artist. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University and her BFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and a BA in Industrial design in Korea. She has taught as well as many studios around the USA and South Korea. She taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Akron and currently teaching at Hofstra University, 92NY, The Clay Space, and The Brick House. Her ceramic work inspires functionality related to food, culture, and their artistic movement in our history in how we live our eve ...
Min Choi, born in Seoul, Korea, is a Brooklyn-based Ceramic artist. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University and her BFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and a BA in Industrial design in Korea. She has taught as well as many studios around the USA and South Korea. She taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Akron and currently teaching at Hofstra University, 92NY, The Clay Space, and The Brick House. Her ceramic work inspires functionality related to food, culture, and their artistic movement in our history in how we live our everyday lives. Her style of work is a collaboration of classic ceramics with a design background, throws, and altered surface decoration forms. She admires products made up of three things; water, clay, and fire which gives fundamental similarities that connect functional pottery with everyday human life.
Handbuilding and Wheel (Beginner/Intermediate)
Handbuilding and Wheel (Intermediate/Advanced)
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