RELAX, CREATE, EXPLORE & DISCOVER THE POSSIBILITIES
Professional potter and teacher Dean Hoegger is offering the following opportunities:
Weekly Classes Starting January 24
Weekly, multilevel classes run throughout the year with an emphasis on wheel throwing and advanced hand building using high fire stoneware. Each class runs for five consecutive weeks in the evening at Clay on Steele, 221 Steele Street, Algoma. The cost is $100 plus a material fee, which includes clay, glazes, two firings, and the use of studio tools. For most students the material fee is between $13 and $25, depending on the amount of clay used. The next class starts Monday, January 24.
Clay Therapy Sessions
Organize your group of up to 6 participants for a relaxing session of creating hand-built forms accompanied by music and poetry. You supply the wine if desired. This two hour workshop can be held at your home, business, or church or can be held at the Clay on Steele Studio. The cost is $125, which includes all materials and firings. Add $10 for each additional participant.
Memory Vessel Workshop for Grandparents and Grandchildren
Working with a grandparent or parent, a child creates a pottery covered vessel depicting shared experiences using clay appliqué and engraving. The pots are painted and fired and used for storing new shared memorabilia. The cost for this six hour workshop is $35 for each participant, with a minimum of 6 persons and can be held at your home, business, or church or can be held at the Clay on Steele Studio. All materials and firings are included.
Birthday Parties
Have your child or adult birthday party at Clay on Steele or have Dean come to your party with the tools and supplies for hand building. In this two hour session, participants will construct and paint hand-built forms which can later be fired in the studio; or, using air drying clay, taken home the same day. The cost is $125 which includes all materials and firings for up to 8 persons. Add $10 for each additional participant.
Raku Pottery Workshop, Spring 2011, Clay on Steele, Algoma
For beginners through advanced students; weekends to be determined based on interest.
For beginners through advanced students; weekends to be determined based on interest.
Learn how to throw on the potter’s wheel and advanced hand building techniques. Make decorative pots and sculptures the first day. On the second day, fire them using the interactive raku firing process. Pots will be taken red-hot from the kiln and placed in combustible materials to create an amazing variety of metallic luster and rainbow colored glazes, right before your eyes.
The course fee is $100 for the two-day 15 hour workshop plus a $10 material fee for each 10#’s of clay used. The material fee includes clay, glazes, two firings, and the use of studio tools. Most students use 10-20#’s of clay.
Dean has recently retired from 30 years of classroom teaching and has more time for his pottery classes and workshops. You can contact him in the following ways:
dhoegger@centurytel.net home 920-824-5127 cell 920 495-5127
Dean Hoegger, 3731 Big Rock Place, Sturgeon Bay, Wi 54235
Thursday Evening Community Open HouseDean Hoegger, 3731 Big Rock Place, Sturgeon Bay, Wi 54235
Kirsten Christianson holds a community night on Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30. All are invited to this open studio where artists and novices hone their craft in an open studio setting. The cost is $7/hr and $1/lb. for clay. Kirsten also teaches a variety of paper making classes.
Call her @ 920-559-0585 for more information.
Group and Individual Instruction
Kris Kolinski will schedule and instruct group and individual lessons. Individual or small group (less than 6) lessons are 2 hours @ $25/person- clay, glazes and firing included. Larger groups (6 or more) discounted @ $22/person- clay, glazes and firing included.
.After School Wheel Throwing Class
Kris will be teaching wheel throwing classes for youth of all ages.The classes are ongoing every Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The fee is $20 per session or purchase a four session block for $70- includes instruction, clay, glazes and firing. Four session blocks do not have to be continuous- you pick the Tuesdays that work for you!
New pricing for families. 1st child pays regular price then each additional child pays half price!
Call Kris @ 920-388-0425 for more information or to schedule a class or email at kriskolinski@sbcglobal.net
Expand a child's imagination by engaging them in fun and productive classes guided by Paula Zinngrabe Wendland. Each adult and child will plan, make decisions and think resourcefully through guided instruction that also teaches patience and follow through. These classes are designed to offer a 
place, a project and the resources for an adult and a child to work together to complete a project. The projects are simple enough to complete in a night but with enough flexibility to allow for creative expression. Clay on Steele will be offering a series of classes throughout the year celebrating the holidays and seasons. The classes will begin prior to the upcoming event.
place, a project and the resources for an adult and a child to work together to complete a project. The projects are simple enough to complete in a night but with enough flexibility to allow for creative expression. Clay on Steele will be offering a series of classes throughout the year celebrating the holidays and seasons. The classes will begin prior to the upcoming event.
The cost of each class in the series is $35 for both the adult and the child and includes the materials, firing and instruction. You may also pay for the entire series (4 classes) for $130.
Adult and Child Seasonal Series
In this holiday series, an adult and child will create a project designed around Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. These sessions can be modified to the holiday you may wish to celebrate (ie. Hanukkah, Kwanza, Festivus). Each series project will be held on two consecutive Tuesdays from 7 to 8 pm.
(One session left in this series.)
Easter- April 12 and 19
Celebrate the renewal of spring and make a decorative bird's nest/basket. You and your child will have fun squeezing clay through a garlic press to construct the "nest". Then you will shape and paint pretty eggs to adorn your basket. You will have a lovely container to hold jelly beans or other pretty things, and a cheerful centerpiece for springtime holiday meals.
