Attention all current and would-be potters: Two new classes are starting in February at the Community Council for the Arts.
Beginning Pottery, with instructor Melanie Waters, will run from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays for six weeks, starting Feb. 19. In this class — basically for beginners but open to intermediates as well — Waters will teach wheel-throwing basics and help hone skills, using new ideas and forms and welcoming those the students bring.
Waters runs Double Diamond Pottery, five miles south of Farmville. She has been working and teaching pottery out of her studio since 1998. She has studied pottery with Dan Finch of Finch Pottery in Bailey, the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, and considers herself a lifelong student in pursuit of pottery excellence. She equally enjoys teaching children and adults the craft of pottery making.
Amanda Lehtola will instruct Intermediate Wheel-Throwing from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays for six weeks, starting on Feb. 20. Her focus will be wheel-throwing and skill honing, with specialty items such as lidded jars, tea cups and saucers, teapots, casserole dishes, and matching dish sets. This is an intermediate wheel-throwing class, but experienced wheel-throwers are also welcome.
Lehtola is the staff artist at the arts center. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from Kent State University, and her BFA in ceramics from the University of Iowa. She has taught ceramics for more than 10 years at all age levels, from children to adults. She has taught as a high school ceramics teacher, at a children’s museum, for a continuing education department, and as an Art Department faculty member for the University of Wisconsin — Colleges. She enjoys teaching classic pottery forms as well as contemporary ceramic concepts.
For more information or to register, contact the arts center at 252-527-2517 or at artist@kinstoncca.com. More information also is available at kinstoncca.com.
