Ceramics for Beginners - Stapleford Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 5 June - 10 July 2025
• Sessions: Thursdays: 9:30am - 11:30am
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: Stapleford Library and Learning Centre, Nottingham
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 12
• Cost: FREE - £42

Are you new to Ceramics? Always wanted to make your own little pots? Using air dry clay is a fun and easy way to create your own pinch pots and coil pots where you don’t need the use of a kiln. This course will introduce you to using air dry clay for creating your very own pinch pots and coil pots. You’ll also be able to decorate them using acrylic paints.

Over the course, you will learn about artists and designers who work with clay and the tools they use. You will also learn how to successfully design and develop ideas to make pinch pots and coil pots using the air dry clay. Furthermore, you will be taught how to design and develop ideas for the design of your pots when decorating them using acrylic paints.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Build confidence using clay techniques.
• Build confidence using tools and equipment for clay.
• Create your very own pinch pot(s) and coil pot(s).
• Understand and be able to use acrylic paints to design and decorate your pots.

Resources required:

A basic sketchbook/notepad or paper to draw onto, a pen, pencil, rubber, sharpener, variety of acrylic paints, paintbrushes, clay tools (Amazon sell packs of tools from as little as £5.99), pack of air dry clay (any colour is fine 500g), or you may want to bring more for more pots!

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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