Creative Forms in Clay: Intro - Intermediate Hand Building | August 6 - September 27, 2025 | Wednesdays 6:30am - 9:30pm
Instructor: Beth West
Dates: August 6 - September 27, 2025
Time: 6:30pm-9:30pm, Wednesdays
Location: WHAT Art School
Class Duration: 8 weeks, 1 session per week, 3 hours/week
Class Size: 8 students maximum
Ages: 16+
Member Price: $380 Materials/Supplies (Hand Building Toolkit Included + 25lbs Clay)
Non-Member Price: $475 Materials/Supplies (Hand Building Toolkit Included + 25lbs Clay)
Class Description:
For students familiar with basic hand building, this class offers the opportunity to create more complex and refined forms. You’ll focus on craftsmanship, form development, and surface design, working at your own pace with instructor support.
Our 8 session ceramics classes include Studio Free Time during the WHAT Art School open hours during the run of the class.
Additional Notes:
25 lbs of clay (more available for purchase)
Glaze + Firing Fees
Studio Free Time during open hours during the class run
This class structure ensures a comprehensive introduction to intermediate hand building, balancing skill development with creative exploration.
Instructor: Beth West
Dates: August 6 - September 27, 2025
Time: 6:30pm-9:30pm, Wednesdays
Location: WHAT Art School
Class Duration: 8 weeks, 1 session per week, 3 hours/week
Class Size: 8 students maximum
Ages: 16+
Member Price: $380 Materials/Supplies (Hand Building Toolkit Included + 25lbs Clay)
Non-Member Price: $475 Materials/Supplies (Hand Building Toolkit Included + 25lbs Clay)
Class Description:
For students familiar with basic hand building, this class offers the opportunity to create more complex and refined forms. You’ll focus on craftsmanship, form development, and surface design, working at your own pace with instructor support.
Our 8 session ceramics classes include Studio Free Time during the WHAT Art School open hours during the run of the class.
Additional Notes:
25 lbs of clay (more available for purchase)
Glaze + Firing Fees
Studio Free Time during open hours during the class run
This class structure ensures a comprehensive introduction to intermediate hand building, balancing skill development with creative exploration.
Instructor: Beth West
Dates: August 6 - September 27, 2025
Time: 6:30pm-9:30pm, Wednesdays
Location: WHAT Art School
Class Duration: 8 weeks, 1 session per week, 3 hours/week
Class Size: 8 students maximum
Ages: 16+
Member Price: $380 Materials/Supplies (Hand Building Toolkit Included + 25lbs Clay)
Non-Member Price: $475 Materials/Supplies (Hand Building Toolkit Included + 25lbs Clay)
Class Description:
For students familiar with basic hand building, this class offers the opportunity to create more complex and refined forms. You’ll focus on craftsmanship, form development, and surface design, working at your own pace with instructor support.
Our 8 session ceramics classes include Studio Free Time during the WHAT Art School open hours during the run of the class.
Additional Notes:
25 lbs of clay (more available for purchase)
Glaze + Firing Fees
Studio Free Time during open hours during the class run
This class structure ensures a comprehensive introduction to intermediate hand building, balancing skill development with creative exploration.
Beth West
BETH WEST is an emerging, interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Wisconsin. Her roots are in ceramics, in which she received her degree at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. During and after her time in school, West taught ceramics classes at The Phipps in Hudson, WI, and in NC at a residency through The Bascom: A Center for Visual Art. Her time in North Carolina expanded her knowledge and understanding of clay and introduced her to the cultural and social impact that functional ceramics possess. This sparked her current exploration of functionality and how objects influence us in personal, historical and social contexts.
Since branching into digital photography and video performance, West has been exhibited across the U.S. including VisArts Center, Rockville, MD; Annemarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; No. 7 Center Gallery, Vermillion, SD; and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, South Korea.
West is also part of the collective, Polyester Projects, which in early 2022 had their first exhibition Searching for the Absurd, at The Phipps in Hudson, WI. In May 2024 they presented a new body of work at the Weitz Center for Creativity at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
During 2024, West also co-founded WHAT Art School, an evolution of WHAT Art Gallery which she helped start in 2021 in St. Croix Falls, WI, which features local, national, and international artists. WHAT Art School will adopt a structure similar to folk and craft schools, and be committed to arts education and encourage instructors, staff, and students to share their experiences and knowledge openly in a safe, inclusive and diverse environment.