Kurinuki – Clay Carving Class with Lynn Dee

Kurinuki is a Japanese pottery technique developed around the sixteenth century for creating interesting and unique functional pottery and beautiful sculptures.
We will begin with a solid block of clay, gradually removing clay from around the outside and hollowing out the center. No clay experience is needed. It’s easy, fun, and you will learn a lot about clay, and how to shape and carve it. You will be able to make one or two pieces, a tea bowl and a covered jar or box. Your work will be dried and bisque after our first class session. At our second session, you can glaze your work for the final firing. As soon as the kiln firing is finished and it cools down, you can pick up your completed work.

Lynn Dee has an art degree with intensification in ceramics from San Jose State University,
where she studied with James Lovera and Herbert Sanders. After graduation she attended a Raku
workshop taught by Paul Soldner, who is credited with introducing Raku to American potters.

Lynn Dee has taught ceramics, handbuilding, throwing on the potters’ wheel and Raku from 1982 to the present.

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Min: 6, Max: 12