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Participants will learn hand-turned ceramic pottery techniques over a 5-day workshop retreat, building large pinch-formed vessels from a single ball of clay without machinery.
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Get matched →Join ceramic artist Paul Briggs for an extended, hands-on workshop exploring how to build tall, wheel-like vessels using only your hands. Working from a single ball of clay, students will learn to "turn" a form through intentional pinching—lifting and shaping the walls without machinery or added material. Emphasis will be placed on patience, rhythm, and touch.
Participants will examine how clay moves when compressed, supported, and gradually coaxed upward. Instruction will focus on hand positioning, compression techniques, and strategies for sustaining height and volume in larger pinch-formed vessels. By session end, participants will have completed a substantial, refined vessel shaped entirely by hand.
Paul Briggs is a ceramic artist and educator raised in New York's Hudson Valley. He earned an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a PhD from Pennsylvania State University. He currently teaches ceramic art at Alfred University, where his work centers on thoughtful engagement with material, process, and the philosophical questions embedded within creative practice.
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