Payment Amounts

Deposit $100.00 USD Balance after Deposit $175.00 USD Workshop Fee $275.00 USD

Raku Kiln Building Workshops available for your guild.

Bring your bisque fired pots to this Friday Evening and Saturday workshop helping you build your own kiln on Friday night, glazing pots Saturday morning, firing in the new kilns Saturday afternoon.  We will review processes and glaze recipes at the end of the day on Saturday.   The objective of this workshop is to send each person home comfortable with the set up of your own grill size propane tanks, regulators and kilns along with an understanding of how to handle glazes in the firing process for the desired outcome.

Tuition:  $150

Materials fee*:  $350 est

Minimum class size:  Eight (8)

*(Materials fee includes Kiln, regulators, burners and bricks.  Glazes used during workshop included in fee.)

kiln building workshop
Building Kilns Insulation Fiber Demo on Building Kilns Sorting Kiln Buttons Setting Up Bases Glazes Drying Nine kilns built on a Friday evening Discussing Propane Discussing Regulators Adjusting Regulator Setting Up Burner Four kilns Firing Moving Pots Reduction Chamber One Person Lifts Kiln Moving More Pots Still Moving More Pots Flame Builds Discussing Glazes

Classes we are teaching at the John C. Campbell Folk School

Constructing Your Own Raku Kiln

Clay

March 30-April 1, 2012 (Weekend)

Instructor: Harry Hearne

Tuition: $320.00

Commit to a great project to enhance your pottery- build your own ceramic-fiber raku kiln, 24 inches high by 22 inches wide. The really fun part will be learning to glaze and fire pots in your new kiln. (Bring 10-12 bisque-fired pots.) You will leave with the kiln, burner and regulator system, hours of firing experience, and some finished pots. Recommended for practicing potters.Note: Additional materials fee is estimated at $325. The Art of Throwing and Raku Firing Clay April 1-7, 2012 Instructors: Harry Hearne, Julie Fischer Tuition: $568.00 Develop and improve your throwing skills to make the clay pots of your dreams. Bring your throwing questions, problems, and hopes to these dynamic instructors. Our exploration includes the mystery of centering, the myths of trimming, and the magic of throwing larger forms. Adventurous potters may try combining thrown forms and building totems. Work will be finished in the electric and raku kilns. Open to all levels. www.folkschool.org

Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft 2011 Class

Harry taught a week long class this past August (14-19).  This particular class, as in most of his, focuses initially on throwing skills; teaching basic skills to beginners and helping intermediate and advanced students work through trouble spots in order to improve their own skills.  By the end of the week, students had plenty of pots to glaze and Raku fire.