Instructor: Shanna Fliegel
Monday - Friday
July 8 - 12
9am - 1pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1 - 4pm

Explore your poetic voice and tell your story through clay. Writing prompts, playful drawing exercises and pattern research will guide you in discovering how imagery and symbols can personalize clay canvas forms. Surface demonstrations include thermofaxing, image transfer, underglaze application, sgraffito, inlay, and wax resist glazing. Demonstrations on red terra cotta will include building forms which lend themselves well to surface exploration, including press molded tiles, textured tablets, slab-built platters, coil-built vessels and wheel thrown pottery. 

Shanna Fliegel grew up in New Jersey, close to NYC and the Appalachian Trail. This early exposure shaped her love for both urban spaces and the natural environment. After graduating with her BFA from James Madison University in Virginia, Shanna went on to work at artist residencies such as the Cub Creek Foundation, Greenwich House Pottery, the Clay Art Center and the Archie Bray Foundation. Fliegel’s international travels have brought her to residencies in Denmark, France, and Costa Rica, furthering her ceramic research. Shanna received her MFA in Studio Art from Southern Illinois University and has since taught at a variety of schools including Montana State University in Billings and the Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. Shanna lives with her family north of Boston and teaches ceramics at the Governor’s Academy.