Extruded Clay Forming
(adults 18 years and older)
Fall 2025
Register by September 30th
Description
The extruder is a tool that can make forms not possible on the potters wheel. It has industrial roots creating forms in every material imaginable. The extruder for clay however, is special because in allows the clay to take on wonderful unintended gestural postures in spite of it’s being forced through a rigid die pattern. The clay always speaks when extruded.
Using the wealth of the academy’s die collection, an infinite array of forms both functional and sculptural are moments away, and bypassing the tedium of traditional hand-building techniques, like slab-building, coiling, and pinch-forming.
The extruder is an architects or designers dream machine, but then, you could just be someone ready for a new challenge.
$1250 Tuition + $200 materials deposit at the point of registration.
Group class (4) min/max students only
Mondays 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Dates: Oct 6, 13, 20, 27. (Nov. off) resume Dec. 1, 8, 15, 29.
Tuesdays 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Dates: Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28. (Nov. off) resume Dec. 2, 9, 16, 30.
Wednesdays 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Dates: Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29. (Nov. off) resume Dec. 3, 10, 17. Jan. 7.
Saturdays 10:30am - 1:30pm
Dates: Oct. 11, 18, 25. (Nov. off) resume Dec. 6, 13, 20, 27. Jan. 3.
accepting registrations
All tools supplied
Instructor: Frank Bosco
