Classes, Lectures, and Workshops Promises, promises! Finally, Jack and friends will be offering classes in the art of ceramics, at San Antonio Pottery. Hand building, figurative sculpture, beginning wheel throwing and intermediate wheel throwing will be offered as individual classes. The cost of each class will be $195 per 6 week course, this will include 2.5 hours of instruction per week, 25 lbs of clay , subsequent glazes and kiln firings appropriate for that amount of clay, additional clay and firing space will be available for purchase, if desired. Students are also given the opportunity of 2 hours of non-instructional studio use per week.

Peggy "Maggie" Clark -"the potter's right hand", received a B. A. in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida with a concentration in ceramics. She has worked in ceramic arts - functional and decorative hand building, as well as wheel throwing for over 30 years. Peggy currently works as assistant to Jack at the pottery studio.

Bill Boots- received a B.A in Fine Arts from Berea College in Kentucky, and a Masters in Art Education from Eastern Tenn. University. Bill has taught various levels and types of art for over 30 years. He has been an art educators in Pasco County since 1981 and currently teaches at Zephyrhills High School where he developed and implemented the 3-D and ceramics program.

Joe Alexander - Received his A.A. from Pensacola Jr. College and his B.A., concentrating in Ceramics, 1974, from the University of West Florida.

There will be a 6 pupil minimum for each class .
Wheel classes max out at 6 pupils , hand building and sculpture at 8 pupils.
Management ( that's Jack) reserves the right to combine classes to meet minimum requirement and will phone prospective students to make rearrangements.

A deposit of $95 is expected to reserve your class space , this will be returned if class minimum is not met or a satisfactory class time is not negotiated. The remaining balance of $100 is expected on the day of first class. Each student must also sign a release of liability form before class will begin. Student cancellation within 1 month of class date will result in forfeiture of deposit.

Be aware that there are some possible dangers in any art class/studio situation. Sharp tools, uneven flooring etc. are part of this studio. Anyone with asthma or any respiratory illness is not advised to occupy this environment. There are no toxic chemicals in use in this studio, but minute airborne particles are present.

Student Work

Student Work