Private Lessons and Workshops

Learn to create a coil-built bud vase perfect for the short, stemmed flowers such as dandelion. Great workshop for beginners or parent and child activity. All ages welcomed. 

Cost: $30 students / $35 community, all materials included: 2 1/lbs per person, slips, glazes, and firings. 

Craft Shop Instructor: Randi Paetsch, Student Worker

Age: All ages

Learn the basics of how to cut, layer, and melt fused glass to create a glass sheet. This sheet will be slumped onto a soap dish mold form to create a soap dish tray. A return visit is required to pick up the finished product after kiln firing, approximately 1 week after class.

Glass is extra and can be purchased at the Craft Shop Supply. Two kiln firings (forming glass sheet & slumping to mold) and kiln paper included in workshop fee.

Cost: $30 students / $35 community, Glass extra.

Craft Shop Instructor: Stephanie Dukat

Age: 16+  

Create a mosaic stepping stone for your garden using glass pieces. During the class you will learn to cut, and shape glass to your desire design. We will use a mortar to adhere it to a concrete stepping stone. You will then need to return to grout at a later date or finish the grouting at home.

Cost: $30 students / $35 community, all materials included.         

Craft Shop Instructor: Stephanie Dukat

Age: 16+

Join us for a week of clay for adults. Participants will design their own place setting for a dinner party; items can be functional or sculpture. We will cover a variety of techniques such as wheel throwing, slabs, coil, pinch, and slump moulds, as well as various surface decoration styles. We will sketch ideas and help you figure out the best way to built your set. All experience levels welcomed,  looking forward to an environment for creative thought and creation. Participants will have to return to glaze or pick up items after staff glazes with clear glazes by staff approximately 2 weeks. 

Cost: $160 students / $170 community, material include: 25 lbs. clay per person, all slips, glazes and underglazes, firings. Please bring sketch book for design and planning.

Age: 16+ 

Craft Shop Instructor:

Stephanie Dukat -  www.stephaniedukat.com, Stephanie is Craft Shop Coordinator at the Student Center. Stephanie's ceramics explores drawn and screen-printed patterns on the bright white surface of porcelain. The white of porcelain resembles drawing paper, its ability to show color and contrast draws her to sketch.  Repetitive patterns take inspiration from wallpaper and love of textiles, they capture nostalgic motifs of domestic and natural spaces. Stephanie received her BFA in Ceramics and BA in Art Education from Buffalo State College in 2011 and a MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois Carbondale in 2016. Stephanie lives and maintain her studio practice from her home studio in Ava, IL. 

Kari Woolsey - www.kariwoolsey.com, Kari is Assistant Professor of Practice in the SIUC Ceramics. Kari's ceramic work focuses on the everydayness of objects and vessels around us through making functional pottery, as well as larger installations. She received a BFA in Ceramics from Florida Atlantic University in 2011 and a MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2018. She has completed artist residencies at Clay Arts Vegas, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and New Harmony Clay Project. Currently, Kari resides in Carbondale, IL. 

This one-day wheel-throwing workshop is perfect for beginners and those wanting a refresher. Learn to throw pottery from start to finish using the pottery wheel to make a simple cup. Pick your glaze and our staff will glaze it for you. All materials are included.

Cost: $30 students / $35 community, all materials included.

Craft Shop Instructor: TBD

Age: 16+ 

Learn the basics of how to cut, layer, and melt fused glass to create a fused glass earring and pendants.  A return visit is required to pick up the finished product after kiln firing.

Glass is extra and can be purchased at the Craft Shop Supply store, kiln firing and jewelry wire and fittings is included in the class fee. Firing fee and kiln paper included in workshop fee.

Cost: $20 students / $25 community, glass is extra.

Craft Shop Instructor: Stephanie Dukat

Age: 16+  

This one-day wheel-throwing workshop is perfect for beginners and those wanting a refresher. Learn to throw pottery from start to finish using the pottery wheel to make a simple cup. Pick your glaze and our staff will glaze it for you. All materials are included.

Cost: $30 students / $35 community, clay is extra.

Craft Shop Instructor: TBD

Age: 16+ 

Learn how to use GR Pottery Forms to make a cute slab built tray. We will create our own textured rolling pin to add a personalize pattern, add fun embellishments, and color with underglaze. A return visit will be need to pick up after the firing, approximately 2 weeks.

Cost: $30 students / $35 community, all materials included: 2.5 lb clay, slips, glazes and firings

Craft Shop Instructor: Stephanie Dukat

Age: All Ages 

Join us for a week of Adults Fibers Camp, each day will explore a different dyeing process and create a series of fabric samples. We will create one large piece of yardage combining techniques. This yardage will be able to use for future project. Dyeing techniques we will explore include indigo shibori, block printing, batik, experimenting using resists, screen printing and more as time allows.

We will sketch ideas and  help you figure out the best way to make it happen. All experience levels welcomed, looking forward to creating an environment for creative thought and creation.

Cost: $180 students / $190 community, all materials included, feel free to bring extra fabric (natural fiber yardage or used clothing for dyeing and block printing)

Craft Shop Instructor: Stephanie Dukat & Kari Woolsey

Age: 16+