Name: Wheel Throwing: Fairy house edition with Jeff Turner
Start: 2025-09-25T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 100 N. Shoreline Blvd, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, Texas 78401

Wheel Throwing: Fairy house edition with Jeff Turner

This is a members only class
When: Thursday September 25th and October 2nd, 2025
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Art Center of Corpus Christi Clay Studio
Registration Deadline: 9/22/2025
Cost: $150.00
This is an intermediate level class.
Description:
Many students have expressed interest in throwing closed forms. In this two-part class we will build on basic skills to collar in and close off a cylinder to make a hollow form. Then we will trim and alter the hollow form to make a fairy house. To be successful in this class, participants should be able to throw a cylinder and have some practice at collaring in.
Session 1 - you will learn the basics to manipulate clay on the wheel to create fully enclosed shapes, like hollow vessels. Students learn fundamental wheel-throwing skills such as centering and opening clay, then progress to specific techniques like collaring in and pinching to draw the walls together, forming a sealed cavity. The class involves hands-on practice with demonstrations, leading to the creation of pieces with a hollow, enclosed interior.
Session 2 - You will learn to trim the piece and then alter it to form a fairy house. The class will then finish it by decorating with sprigs, adding architectural elements such as doors, windows, shingles, eves, and swirls that give it personality and whimsical charm. We will also discuss glazing and underglazing techniques for you to try after bisque firing.
Instructor Bio:
Jeff Turner is a Texas native and a graduate of Flour Bluff High School, received a bachelor’s degree in geology from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi and a master’s degree in geology from from Baylor University. While filing out his degree plan he discovered that a fine arts course was required to graduate and that’s where Jeff discovered his passion for ceramics. One class turned to several more and into a summer job before graduate school turning out pots for school funds. Life put a hold on ceramics for nearly 30 years and a career change brought him back to experiencing clay again. Jeff mostly produces functional ceramics on the wheel but is constantly exploring ways to push wheel throwing in whimsical and unexpected directions usually reserved for hand building or fusing thrown and hand building techniques. Jeff is a two time winner of Best of Show at the Art Center Ceramics Show and teaches both wheel and hand building classes at the Art Center Corpus Christi.