Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide Master timeless techniques, explore new forms, dig and process your own clay

• A solid course on slab and pinch-pot techniques that allow beginning students to master the basics and progress through finished wares.
• Exclusive knowledge of how to dig and process local clays for use in pottery.
• Techniques she has developed for creating unique glazes with ash, salt, and other dry materials.
• Introductions to talented contemporary potters, who will share their work, tips, advice, and techniques.

Melissa Weiss is an Asheville, North Carolina potter and a true handmade maker. Each pot she makes contains clay that she digs up on her land in Arkansas. From there, she drives the clay back to her studio in Asheville where she cleans it and incorporates it into her clay bodies. Melissa makes a variety of ash and celadon glazes and fires her pots in a gas reduction kiln. Melissa teaches classes in handbuilding at intervals throughout the year, including at the famous Penland Art School and the North Carolina Pottery Center. She also operates an 8,000 square foot art cooperative called Southside Studios that houses studio space for twenty potters. Melissa  participates in shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and exhibits her work in galleries from New York City, to Fayetteville Arkansas.

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