Painted Ceramic Trays - May 3, 2025
May 3, 2025
1pm-3:30pm
Make a set of special ceramic trays in this fun class. The trays make great trinket dishes, ring dish, tea bag rests, gum keepers or can be used for serving snacks. Students will use wood blocks to create small trays, (up to 5” x 6”) from slabs of clay. After the trays are made, students will use colorful underglazes to decorate the trays with their own special patterns. The instructor will glaze and fire the trays with a clear coating after the class. The trays will be ready for pick up 2-3 weeks after the class.
Tuition: $45
Materials: $10
This course is for all ages, but children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult
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.