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Is there anything more essential to our human experience than the quest to find what makes us, ‘us’? Even before we can crawl or walk, our parents put paintbrushes and footballs in our cribs, dip us in pools, and try to nudge us down a path that can hopefully one day lead to happiness and success. As we grow older, we fall off our ice skates and break our saxophone reeds, but that journey of experimentation reveals parts of ourselves that become foundational.
When kids walk through our studio doors, we typically see one of two things unfold. The first is they excel at pottery in ways that seem surprising to their parents, and oftentimes to themselves. They get comfortable in their classes and begin to let their imaginations guide their artwork, and before they know it, they’re taking ideas and using their own two hands to create those ideas in physical form.
The second and more common outcome we see is kids who don’t necessarily blow anyone’s socks off as potters. They make good pieces and have plenty to bring home, but for them, the real growth comes in their small classroom community. Whether they realize this is what is happening or not, they learn to thrive in environments where they’re not necessarily the best in the room, and how to learn from their peers who have different strengths than them in a creative and non-competitive environment.
Our studio has adult instructors who have been practicing pottery since childhood; they were potters from the first time they put their hands on clay and it’s part of their DNA. We currently have 7 instructors.
They’re part of the first group I described above.
Our adult classes have almost 100 students. They work in various fields across multiple disciplines. Many of them were part of that second group I described above, who tried pottery as kids and loved it, but life took them in different directions, and they fell out of practice. They’re back to reconnect with that inner child and to find the feeling of community that feels like a warm hug, and maybe to surprise themselves with some awesome work along the way.
Our Spring session at Blue Skies Pottery begins on March 20th and will last for 7 weeks. We’ll be offering kids classes Tuesdays through Saturdays, and Grown Up & Me classes on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Maybe your kid’s journey leads to a future as a generational artist, or maybe it leads to them being successful in a completely different field – either way, it can start at Blue Skies.
You can sign up for the Spring session at Blue Skies Pottery here.
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