Online pottery and ceramic classes and workshops

Online pottery and ceramic workshops

TeachinArt teachers do not just entertain; we educate.

How our online classes work
TeachinArt online classes are pre-recorded, so you decide when — and how many times — you watch and review each video. During filming, our videographer was the only "student" in the room, which means we could remove repetitive actions and highlight the details of each technique. Every video is shot from the best angle to give each ceramic artist a front-row seat to the whole class.
What you get
A 5-day, hands-on workshop becomes a 6-week online class, with 4 additional weeks built in for review — shorter timeframes are also available. Your instructor answers all of your questions by email and shares their notes in PDF format, so you have a lasting reference to work from long after the class ends.

Handbuilding workshops

Our online pottery classes for hand building are for porcelain clay, as well as stoneware and earthenware, for beginners thru to advanced potters.

Porcelain handbuilding (Antoinette Badenhorst - learn how to build and sculpt with porcelain)
Understanding porcelain (Antoinette Badenhorst - how to get transparent porcelain)
Colored clay (Curtis Benzle - learn more about Neriage, Nerikomi, and blending colored clay)
Handbuilding porcelain dinnerware (Antoinette Badenhorst - learn how to handmake fine, see-through kitchenware - also called chinaware)
Handbuilding pottery for beginners (Antoinette Badenhorst - how to become a potter with your own pottery studio)
Pinching teapots for beginners (Antoinette Badenhorst - How to handbuild and pinch a functional, artistic teapot.)
Sculpted clay creatures (Sam Clark - How to make and paint a clay dragon, troll, and even dragon mugs.)

Wheel throwing pottery workshops

The online wheel throwing classes are for beginners to advanced potters. Our instructors share their own review notes as well as all questions and answers. These ceramic wheelthrown classes include wedging the clay, centering the clay on the wheel, forming the clay walls, trimming, altering, glazing, and firing.

Understanding porcelain (Antoinette Badenhorst - Understand wheel throwing with porcelain clay)
Porcelain tips for wheel pottery (David Voorhees - how to throw porcelain clay on the wheel)
Take wheel throwing to the next level (Nan Rothwell - wheel throwing projects that will challenge your throwing skills)
Faceted teapot sets (Connie Christensen - how to make a faceted functional teapot with a serving tray, matching cups, saucers, and creamer.)
Wheel thrown porcelain dinnerware (Antoinette Badenhorst - How to throw fine translucent porcelain kitchenware on the pottery wheel)
Wheel thrown teapots (Antoinette Badenhorst - How to throw functional clay teapots on the wheel.)

Glazing and firing workshops

TeachinArt provides several online workshops for pottery glazes. From gas firing to electrical firing, from understanding glazes to making your own glazes.

Alternative firing (Marcia Selsor - learn all about raku, obvara, and sagger firings)
Shino glazing (Connie Christensen - learn about shino glazes, gas firing for shino, and how to evaluate your own shino products)
Glazing made easy (Antoinette Badenhorst and guest - Lynn Barnwell - how to understand the basics of ceramic glazes, faults, and remedies)
Glazing with Ron Roy (Ron Roy - take ceramic glazes to the next level and learn from the doctor of ceramic glazes how to make your own clay and individual glazes)

Decorating techniques on clay workshops

Painting on clay is a growing art and fashion statement. TeachinArt has excellent art teachers to demonstrate and explains the details of china painting and acrylics painting.

China painting (Paul Lewing - learn how to mix and paint with China paint on porcelain tiles and bowls.)
Post-fired finishes (Marie EVB Gibbons - learn techniques for painting on clay with acrylic paint. This is also called cold firing and painting on clay.)
Sculpted Clay Creatures (Sam Clark - paint on clay with acrylics as well as with under glazes.)
Soluble Salts (John Shirley - decorating ceramics with soluble metal salts)

Woodworking online classes

Turning on the lathe is part of the segmenting online workshop by Bob Rundquist at TeachinArt.

Introduction to segmenting (Bob Rundquist - learn how to design and plan a segmented wooden bowl, the best techniques for cutting wood into small segments, how to best glue the segments, and how to use the lathe for turning fine and lightweight wooden bowls.)

Business, finance, and office admin for artists

AAMAL is an online business and bookkeeping workshop for artists. Product development and pricing structures are included.

Understand bookkeeping and business admin for artists.

The AAMAL (All Artists Making A Living) online class with Curtis Benzle will help artists to understand the office administration that is needed in any business, small or big. Curt shares several success stories of artists that may help you to as an artist to understand more about product development, pricing structuring, marketing and promotion, planning and executing an art business. Learn how to get your work in art shows and galleries, what to consider when you prepare your tax and financials, and how to move into teaching as an artist. Making great art is not the only thing needed to be successful as an artist.

Why are our classes unique?

You attend formal workshops of renown professional artists at your own place.
All questions are answered and shared with other students.
Templates, reviews and other documents from instructors are included in the class.

Who should do our workshops?

Artists who want to further their career.
Anyone who wants to become and artist.

All the online classes at TeachinArt are full workshops from instructors who are professional artists with their own studios.
Students will get the following:

The instructors are available for answering all questions for the duration of the class.
Students will be allowed into our closed social media group to meet other students, share their work and ask questions.
Each week, students will get a PDF document review for the work done during the week.
Students will get a PDF document with all the questions and answers.
Recipes, templates and any other hand-out's shared by the instructors may be downloaded or printed.
The videos are for educating and informing and opened by week so that the students can do the actual workshops with the teacher.
Demonstrations show fine detail and each student will have the best spot in the class.

Return policy

No refunding. Since we pay the art instructors directly for the workshops when students register, refunding is not allowed.
Credit will remain.
Rescheduling for a specific class or exchanges for another class may be arranged with TeachinArt.

Shipping policy

When a student registers for an online workshop, TeachinArt promptly sends the user manual via email to the email address provided on the payment invoice within two business days.
Administration is based in the USA Central Time Zone.
The viewing period for the workshop is determined by the registration date.