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Summer Visual Arts Club: Wheel Throwing and Marbled Slabs

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Visual Arts Club will be offered at Waverley as a Summer activity for students from Years 5-12.

It will commence Term 4, Week 2, 2024. 

Visual Arts Club provides an opportunity for students to build skills in critical and creative thinking. This summer, students will be introduced to: Wheel throwing and marbled slabs.

Each student will be introduced to the fundamental skills required for wheel throwing: throwing, trimming and glazing. Learning to centre clay, trimming bases to add a foot and layering brush on glazes will be explored throughout the course. Students will use a midfire clay and have access to as much clay as needed for them to understand the throwing process and create two-three final works reflective of their skills.

Each ceramicist will also experiment with marbling black and white clay to create tonal value and pattern in a series of slab works. These pieces will be constructed using the slab roller and slump moulds to form usable shapes and vessels.

In Visual Arts Club students will:

  • Develop knowledge in Ceramics: creating, firing and glazing works 
  • Understand the Wheel throwing  process: throwing, trimming and glazing 
  • Learn marbling techniques in clay 

Cost: $130.00
Materials: all materials will be supplied
Session times: select ONE from the following:

  • Monday  session:3:30pm-5pm – Booking form link
    OR
  • Tuesday session: 3:30pm-5pm – Booking form link