Pottery Classes
We are sorry, but we are still closed!
We are beginning classes for all ages in October 2012
Children 8 years old and up/ wheel throwing
Sign up for one of our six wheels on our Google Calendar:
(You pick which friends you want to come with)
Click on this link to sign up!________________
Tuesdays and Thursdays: Two hours sessions : 9:00 A.M-11:00 A.M.or 12:30 to 2:30
Beginning Tuesday October 9th and 11th. $25.00 for a two hour session.
Saturday open Studio to all ages!
Wheels Sign Up:
Sign up for one of our six wheels on our Google Calendar (if you are over 8 years old)
(You pick which friends you want to come with or come and throw pots on the wheel next to your child.) Two hours block sessions. $25.00 a block. Beginning Saturday October 11th.
Click on this link to sign up!_____________
Hand Building for Younger Ones:
Sign up your child and, or yourself to work at our hand building table.
There are five chairs to bring thier friends or you and all of your kids!
Adult Wheel Throwing Classes:
Monday and Wednesday 10A.M-1P.M and 2:00-5P.M.
Have you always wanted to learn pottery on the wheel?
Now is your chance to learn with a Master potter in a small setting.
Stephen Hatland is gentle, patient and learned from the best!
Only five students at a time! $200 for 5 classes
Beginning October 8th, 2012
Click on this link to sign up! ______________
-Raku workshops coming up.
E-mail us if interested.
-Women's sculpture class of the human body.
E-mail if interested.
Our Classes and Camps
We are sorry, but we are still closed!
Winter classes:
- Day Classes run between 10A.M. and 2P.M in the winter months.
- Home School children are welcome to interact with others, get involved in group projects and have fun together.
- Groups are welcome to book on going classes, parties and events in the studio
- If you have a group of friends who want to play with clay together, call us and we'll create a class for you.
Only fifteen children per camp!
"Your child will have fun, feel nourished,
gain confidence and make great friends."
Activities:
- A wide variety of ceramic techniques are taught: throwing simple pieces on the Potter’s Wheel, shaping clay into Pinch Pots, designing and constructing Masks, building unique Coil Vessels, Clay Decoration, and Glazing.
- Community building and self esteem activities in the tee-pee.
- We offer patient encouragement and personal guidance. Camps are small, with a maximum of 10 students per class. Students receive both group and individual instruction at their own level.
- Each week gives the children the complete experience of the clay process. From raw clay to glaze firing. The children learn how to load the electric kiln and unload fired, warm pieces in the morning!
- They gain confidence in experiencing a completed creative process.
- Hikes on the land, trampoline play, sunny day sprinkler time and tire swinging in the shade fun activities we do during the camp.
Dates: Pick one or two weeks sessions for your child.
Times: 10 A.M.-3 P.M.
Cost:
The cost for a one week session is $275.00
Second child discount! $200.00 for one week
Register Deposit plus registration fee:
Register with a $100 (non-refundable) deposit for each child,
plus $45.00 (non-refundable) registration fee.
or
Register entire camp fee on line (see price above)
Questions on what to pay? Call us 303-517-5436
Download Waiver Here
About Us
Mira and Stephen Hatland have been working in clay and with all ages of children and young adults since the 1970’s.Together they showed their wheel thrown and hand sculpted ceramic pieces in well know shows such as the
Lincoln Center Show in New YorkCity, Ann Arbor Show in Ann Arbor Michigan
and Uptown Artfair in Minneapolis.
Stephen also sold his Raku work in well known stores such as Neeman Marcus and many high end galleries in Honolulu Hawaii.
Mira has worked with children and teenagers since 1979. She has had extensive training and experience in teaching art work, communication skills and organizational events.
Mira and Stephen have now created “Sunshine Pottery Studio” on a beautiful piece of land only 12 minutes from downtown Boulder.
Stephen also sold his Raku work in well known stores such as Neeman Marcus and many high end galleries in Honolulu Hawaii.
Mira has worked with children and teenagers since 1979. She has had extensive training and experience in teaching art work, communication skills and organizational events.
Mira and Stephen have now created “Sunshine Pottery Studio” on a beautiful piece of land only 12 minutes from downtown Boulder.
Contact Page
Due to the Fire, the studio will have to be rebuilt.
We will not be holding camps in the summer of 2011. We apologize.
Please send us an e mail if you are interested in when we are beginning classes and camps again.
Thank you so much for your interest.
We will not be holding camps in the summer of 2011. We apologize.
Please send us an e mail if you are interested in when we are beginning classes and camps again.
Thank you so much for your interest.
- Clay Summer camps
- Individual Private Lessons
- Raku Firing Workshops and Retreats
- Winter Home School Sessions.
If you are interested in any of these clay events for either now or later, please contact us with your information so that we may let you know when things are happening.
We are eager to share this place with you.
Sincerely, Mira and Stephen Hatland
Phone Number: 303-517-5436
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Directions to our studio: It takes 12 minutes from down town Boulder.
From Boulder:
Go to 4th and Mapleton. Set your odometer for 5.2 Miles
Look on your right. You will see two stone pillars at a driveway. We are the next driveway on your right.
Turn right, go 1/4 mile and bare left at the first fork.
Next fork bare right to our house, park and walk up to the studio or
at the second fork bare left up the hill and park before the orange gate.
Look to your right and you will see Sunshine Pottery Studio.
From the Mountains:
Go down Sunshine Canyon Drive.
When you hit the pavement or County Rd. 83 on your left, count 9 driveways on your left.
On the right will be five mailboxes. (The first one is black with yellow painting on it.)
Just before you get to those mailboxes turn immediately left into our shared driveway.
Go 1/4 mile and bare left at the first fork.
see directions above.
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Welcome
We are sorry, but we are still closed!
Welcome to Sunshine Pottery Studio
in Boulder, Colorado
We are open again and we are only 12 minutes from downtown Boulder.
There are 6 potters wheels and hand-building table space to create amazing projects.
There are breath taking views from the windows,watch our horses graze and take a hike to our lovely bench at the top of the hill.
The hundreds of trees still give us shade and a lovely space for creativity and peace.
Come and play with clay with us.
Sit in our tee-pee, pet our horses, walk the land and give your self the gift of creativity.
