About this Event
Clay Air Dry Soul Bowl Class With Gail Jones
Join us at The Glass Turtle Studio on April 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM (Eastern Time) for a fun and laid-back clay air dry soul bowl class with Gail Jones. Whether you're a beginner or just looking to get creative, Gail will guide you through making your own piece. You will learn the basic technique of coil hand building to make your personalized ceramic "Soul Bowl". Bring your vibes and let's get crafty together! This is a one time event at . Gail Jones will be teaching Friday before her show opening in our art Gallery. Be one of the very few people who can take a class with Gail. We are so fortunate and honored to have her in our space.
GAIL JONES ART
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
The inspiration for my creations comes from the Creator of all things.
As images are impressed upon my heart, my imagination comes alive. From there, creative energy flows into and form emerges from my favorite mediums: clay, fiber, and glass. Each piece holds the energy of the divine inspiration I have received.
My heart’s desire is for those who view my work to be awakened to their own creative forces.
My hope is for this awakening to bring forth a multitude of unique expressions of beauty on both a personal and global scale.
Every piece of my art carries a prayer that I might inspire others to connect with both their Creator
and their own inimitable beauty, magic, and creativity.
Gail H. Jones
BIO
You do not really decide to be an artist…it is in you from birth. We either respond to who we are created to be or we spend our lives suppressing it. Artist Gail Jones spent her childhood years around artistic expression.
As explained by Jones; “Being exposed to art and creative process was just something that I thought everyone was raised with.”
Whether it was fiber art, woodworking or her grandfather’s (Henry Bozeman Jones) paintings, Jones was surrounded by creative influences inside of her family that naturally led her to respond to the artist inside of her.
She recalls her early childhood “We would go to my grandfather’s house for Sunday dinner. As I walked in, there was a wonderful mixture of pipe tobacco, oil paint and dinner cooking in the kitchen and I would sit on my grandfather’s lap as he explained his latest work to me.”
Born in Germantown, Pa. and raised nearby in Ambler, her artistic future was further shaped being enrolled at an early age in art classes at Heritage House of North Philadelphia, an artist-based community center which her grandfather was involved in establishing. Later, Jones spent her school years using all her class electives in creative environments, metal, woodworking and sewing.
After the birth of her first son, Jones enrolled at Montgomery County Community College, focusing on Ceramic Arts. She fell in love with the hand-building process and another part of Gail Jones, the Artist was activated. This was the last of any formal training as she launched into the following decades developing as an independently trained artist.
Jones spent much of her early years as a batik artist, creating a wearable art line from the shapes and designs that flowed out of her. She soon created flat pieces which began to display in shows and galleries.
Over twenty years ago, Jones returned to working with ceramics, opening her first studio inside a rented space in a tiny little village named Forksville, in north-central Pennsylvania until moving to an equally obscure location in Muncy Valley, Pa, where she resides.
There, Jones established a working studio where her own creativity seemingly never ceases while her pottery classes draw in other women from the community that love that same creative energy.
Her mosaic works now incorporate her own hand-made tessera which serves to enhance the creative expression
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Glass Turtle Studio, 118 E King St, York, United States
USD 69.82
