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Visiting Artist Melissa Weiss, One Day Workshop; Surfaced Pinch Pots
About the Class
Learn from Visiting Artist and incredible talented maker, Melissa Weiss. In this one day workshop students will explore cups with the pinching technique. Participants will pay special attention to handles and feet during the building process. Surface design will also be explored. Students will decorate at the green stage using water etching, wax resist, Mishima and sgraffito techniques. Also explored will be drawing on pots and how to find your voice in clay.
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About your Instructor
Melissa Weiss
Melissa Weiss is a full time artist working primarily in clay. She lives and works in Asheville, NC. She is originally from NYC. She graduated from SVA with a BFA in photography in 2000. Melissa took a clay class for the first time in 2004. She set up a studio shortly after that and continues experimenting and exploring this inexhaustible material. She has taught and exhibited ceramics across the United States. Melissa makes illustrative, functional ceramics from wild clay dug from her land in the Arkansas Ozarks, the traditional territories of the Caddo,Osage and Quapaw tribes. Her work strives to illuminate the sweetness and fortitude of humanity. She is inspired by all people fighting for liberation and a just world.
https://www.melissaweisspottery.com/
Schedule
Saturday, September 6, 2025
10:00AM – 4:00PM
This Session
September 6, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Experience Level
All Levels, Beginning, Intermediate and AdvancedAges
Adults and Teens 16+
Class FAQ
We ask that you notify us at least 10 days in advance of a class if you need to cancel your registration. You may cancel by phone or email and we will gladly offer you a refund or credit toward a future class. If you cancel with less than 10 days’ notice, we will not be able to provide refunds, due to our contractual obligations and material purchases for each class.
Sometimes, the Sonoma Community Center has to cancel a class due to low enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as a natural disaster or health emergency. If this happens and we do not offer a reschedule date, you will be refunded 100% of your registration fee (minus the payment processing and services fee), or credit towards a future class. If we are able to offer a reschedule date but you are unable to make the new date, we will gladly offer credit towards a future class.
All credits must be used within 1 year.
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The Sonoma Community Center is committed to creating an accessible learning environment. If you require any special considerations(medical, physical, learning) please share them with Sean Baskin, Program Associate, by emailing him at [email protected] so that he can forward them to the relevant Program Director and Instructor.
Late additions to any program, class, or workshop that has already begun will be allowed on a per-case basis depending upon the Program Director & instructors approval. Late additions will have to pay the full registration cost of the class, along with any materials fees, and will not be prorated for the time missed. You may reach out to the program directors directly, or the Program Associate Sean Baskin at [email protected] to request a late addition.
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