Teen Wheel Throwing - Tuscaloosa Home Educators

Join Amy Smoot this year to create and play with clay! Students will have fun exploring the pottery wheel and various techniques to create functional cups, bowls or mugs. Students will receive instruction through each step of the throwing process from creating, decorating, and glazing their work. This class is limited to a maximum of 6 students and a minimum of 3. About Amy Smoot: Amy Smoot is the Clay Studio manager at Kentuck. She is from Carrollton, GA and currently resides in Tuscaloosa, AL. She received her BFA in ceramics from the University of West Georgia in 2015. While there, she was studio technician and research assistant in the ceramics area. In 2019 she received her MFA from The University of Alabama where she first began teaching ceramics as a graduate assistant. Her practice consists of all types of ceramics techniques including mold-making, slip-casting, hand building, and wheel thrown pottery. This workshop is sponsored in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts .