Lakeside Pottery is a ceramic art educational resource for the community working with clay located in Stamford CT. In our facility, learn the art of decorative and functional pottery, using the potters wheel and ceramic sculpting. Activities include group classes, private lessons, teachers professional development, after school programs and summer camp. Open Studio time can be purchased for independent work. Workshops offered include Raku, Altered Forms, Large Forms, Sculpting and guest artists Working with Clay Crafty Tip
Clay is an extraordinarily tactile, honest and alluring medium; an ideal vehicle through which to explore, express and discover ones creative inner world. Working with clay is also an excellent tool for exploring fears, attitudes, thoughts and feelings. The use of clay encourages self-discovery and adds to sensory stimulation. It can be an outlet for frustration and improves motor skills. You can tell a lot about people by the way the use their hands and how they explore new limits and experience success or failure. The use of the potter’s wheel in particular requires one to be focused, patient, decisive, delicate and fearless. One can gain these attributes apply them to not only their pottery work but also to their everyday lives.
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