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October 3, 2026
10am-12pm
Create your own luminaries in this fun class. Students will work with pliable clay slabs which can be incised with decorative accents. Then formed into cylinders and finished off with a circular slab for the base.
Time and materials will allow for students to make two luminaries. Lots of flexibility for design, since we are working with wet clay.
During the class we will discuss glaze colors and the students will fill out a color card, so the instructor can glaze the luminaries once they have been bisque fired. The luminaries will be glaze fired and available for pick-up at the Avon Hills Folk School 2 weeks after the class.
Tuition: $40
Materials: $15
This course is for students 12+.
Your Instructor
SUE FLANDERS
(she/her)
Sue Flanders first touched clay her senior year, 1981, at the College of St. Benedict, in St. Joseph, Minn. Under the watchful eye of Sr. Dennis Frandrup, she learned technical throwing skills. Frandrup wouldn’t allow students to keep any pots in the first month; she would slice each “masterpiece" to expose imperfections and lead her students to understand the goals of pot construction.
Sue maintains a studio in Mora, Minnesota and is currently working with white stoneware and firing her pots to cone 6 in one of her two electric kilns. “I get great satisfaction from working every step in the ceramic process”, says Sue.. Her studio name is “Kilns of Flanders”, where she shares the studio with her potter husband, Chuck.
She also enjoys teaching workshops in East Central Minnesota at Sapsuckers Farms, Annandale Art and Textile Center, American Swedish Institute and Avon Hills Folk School.