Throwing porcelain – complex and altered shapes with Katharina Klug

Ref: S4D37647

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About this course

This course is aimed at confident throwers, with experience of porcelain, who would like to explore the shaping and altering of vessels. It will include how to throw curved forms focusing on proportion and composition, and how to alter thrown forms into ovals and squares.

Timetable

Arrival day
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm for registration
Student welcome, followed by dinner: 6.45pm (dinner included)
Teaching session: 8pm - 9pm (attendance is essential)

Daily timetable
Course teaching 9.15am - 5pm (lunch included)
Dinner: from 6.30pm (included for residential students)
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed

Departure day
Course teaching: 9.15am - 3pm (lunch included)

Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am.
Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required.

General Information

Tutors

Katharina Klug

After growing up in her mother’s pottery business, Katharina trained professionally at college in Austria and Germany for 6 years. She set up a business in Cambridge in 2011. Katharina has been teaching pottery and particularly throwing on the wheel for 25 years.

Accommodation

Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.

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