Check out our NEW Teen and Painting classes. Our adult courses are designed to inspire and expand your artistic abilities, offering a rewarding and engaging experience. These unique courses focus on both foundational skills and advanced techniques, allowing each student to deepen their creative practice and explore new artistic horizons.
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Details:Discover the magic of the potter's wheel. This essential introductory course welcomes beginners into the vibrant world of ceramics. Students learn the core mechanics of wheel throwing by guiding raw clay through centering, opening, pulling and collaring. The experience concludes with creative glazing techniques, transforming foundational practice pieces into beautifully finished, custom pottery.
Details:Growing confidence on the potter's wheel. This class will offer students an intensive program focusing on all levels of wheel throwing skills. Students will refine, enhance and grow their skill sets. The teacher will offer inspiration and feedback for each class.
Details:Embark on a creative journey, this class focuses on fundamental handbuilding clay techniques to craft art pieces. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to enhance their artistic skills by mastering handbuilding techniques, including pinching, pressing, stamping, coiling, and working with soft clay slabs.
Details:Discover the magic of the potter's wheel. This essential introductory course welcomes beginners into the vibrant world of ceramics. Students learn the core mechanics of wheel throwing by guiding raw clay through centering, opening, pulling and collaring. The experience concludes with creative glazing techniques, transforming foundational practice pieces into beautifully finished, custom pottery.
Details:Spin raw clay into functional art. Teens of all experience levels are invited to dive into this energetic, peer-centric pottery series. Students build essential skills behind the wheel while mastering centering, throwing, trimming and glazing. This dynamic studio environment encourages artistic expression as students transform raw clay into unique, finished ceramic pieces.
Details:Explore and experience new approaches to handbuilding, functional pottery and sculptural forms using paper clay. Techniques such as slab work, coiling, pinching and darting will be reviewed. Emphasis on design principles will be supported with lessons on form and surface decorations such as textures, underglaze techniques and glaze applications. Each student will be encouraged to work on independent projects and will be supported in developing their own artistic voice. Previous experience in ceramics is required.
Details:Come and explore the vibrant world of acrylic painting. This dynamic, all levels course, covers everything from realistic painting and bold abstraction to texture building and mark-making. You will also be introduced to gelli plate monoprinting and collage techniques, giving you a fundamental toolkit to design unique, multilayered masterpieces.
Growing up embraced by nature in the Poconos inspires my work. My art practice thrives on playful exploration with materials like recycled paper, oil stick and paint – seeing things anew. This joy fuels my children's art classes, where play and discovery flourish. Finding our visual voices and making something with our hands is needed now more than ever, there is a joy and necessity in making something uniquely our own. My education includes a Fine Arts degree from Keystone College and a B.F.A. with an Art Education Certification from Tyler School of Art. As a teaching artist, I cherish time with my super creative family in and around the Philadelphia area.
Kel Darling
Artist & Wheel-throwing Ceramics Teacher
Art is my passion. As a wheel-throwing ceramics teacher and home studio potter, a lot of my work is made available at small markets. My craft is rooted in European apprenticeships and a degree from Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. Beyond the studio, my life is fueled by a love of art, my children, a dog, a fish, and a frog. Pottery's usefulness is what captivates me most — come create something functional and beautiful with me!
Bill Ryan
Abstract Painting Teacher
With five decades of creative practice, I am currently dedicated to the pursuit of non-objective abstraction. My approach simplifies complex concepts, centering on essential techniques in painting, collage, mixed media, digital art, and sculpture.
Michele Lorraine
Artist & Ceramics Teacher
For decades, I trained and worked as a Corporate Interior Designer. After becoming a mother, I returned to my first love, ceramics, and pursued art education. I've studied with accomplished Ceramic Artists locally, nationally, and internationally to deepen my craft. Since 2008, I've enjoyed teaching art to both children and adults, meeting them where they are and challenging them to grow their artistic knowledge and unique voice. In my own work, I value porcelain and stoneware fiber-clays (paperclay) to express my artistic ideas.
Ratna Gandhi
Artist & Ceramics Teacher
A sculptor, ceramic artist, curator and instructor with 25+ years of creative exploration. I work with diverse materials: stone, metal, wood, fiberglass, paper mache, ceramics, fabric, plaster and clay. I earned my sculpture degrees in India, B.A. in 2000 and my M.A. 2002. I was honored with India's National Award for visual artists for my sculpture: Family Fun. I've participated in international art camps and taught all ages. As Artist in Residence in Port Coquitlam, Canada (2020-21), I led the Wall of Interactions public art project exploring nature. My works are held by global collectors and organizations across Germany, USA, Canada, Yugoslavia, Paris, Venice, Singapore, Israel and India.
Zach Duncan-Tessmer
Artist & Ceramics Teacher
A sculptor, educator, and father, when I'm not with my family, I'm in my studio or at the Art Center feeding my innate need to create. As an artist for over three decades, I'm still enthralled by shapes, forms, and sharing my passion and expertise with students of all levels. My work often features geometric sculptures made from ceramic shards or mischievous, multi-spouted coffee pots, challenging expectations about form and function and reflecting the inherent fragility of the medium. I grew up in rural Ohio, where I developed an interest in how to make things, and then sometimes destroy them!
Philip DiWilliams
Artist & Children's Teacher
Art is full of surprises. Every time you sit down to draw, paint, or build something, you’re faced with small challenges to figure out along the way — and that’s what makes it so fun. As a Conshohocken-based painter with a Master’s in Art Education and years of experience as a high school teacher, I love helping students try new things, take creative risks, and build confidence in their ideas.
Whether we’re experimenting with materials or working through a tricky part of a project, my goal is to make the process engaging, supportive, and fun. My own work has been featured in local exhibitions like the Bambi Biennial, but when I’m not teaching or making art, I’m usually spending time with my wife and daughters — going on adventures and making the most of each day together.
