Playing in the Mud: Beginning Wheel Throwing with Angelo Silecchia

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Playing in the Mud: Beginning Wheel Throwing with Angelo Silecchia

Monday, 6 Classes

3pm – 5:30pm

Offered For:

Fall Session One (Sept. 14, 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19)

Fall Session Two (Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7)

Price:

$265

In this class students will be introduced to clay and its properties as they explore learning how to prepare and throw clay on the potter’s wheel for the first time. In this beginning level class students will focus on the fundamentals of learning how to throw cylinder and bowl forms.

Purchase clay prior to your first class by calling 727-821-7162 ext. 2311 (Wed-Sat 10am-5pm).

Brown Clays:

259 Stoneware – Buff colored stoneware. Smooth enough to throw on the potter’s wheel, but strong enough to withstand most hand-building techniques. Can be fired from Cone 6 to Cone 10.

112 Speckled Brownstone – Plastic clay for wheel and modeling. Granular manganese gives speckled surface. Good in oxidation or reduction firing. Can be fired to Cone 6.

306 Stoneware – Smooth throwing body. Orange-brown in reduction. Gray at Cone 10 oxidation. Can be fired from Cone 6 to Cone 10.

Red Clays:

308 Brooklyn Red – Rich dark red colored clay. Contains grog that makes it exceptionally strong for sculpting or throwing large vessels. Can be fired to Cone 6.

108 Red with Grog – A high fire red clay with medium grog and sand for surface texture and minimal cracking and warping. Designed for sculpture, slab, and coil work. Can be fired from Cone 6 to 10.

White Clays:

240 White – Made by Standard clay. Very smooth, plastic throwing body that fires to Cone 6.

213 Porcelain – A white body formulated for Cone 6 firing. Plastic and throwable.

130 Porcelain – A white firing, high temperature plastic body. Very fine white porcelain grog enhances strength and throwability. Reduction firing: Potentially yields black specks. Can be fired from Cone 7 to Cone 10

Wear comfortable, non-restrictive clothing, keep hands free of Jewelry

Class will be held at:
Morean Center for Clay
420 22nd St S
St. Petersburg, FL 33712

Artist Bio:

Angelo Silecchia is a ceramics artist that creates functional ceramics with alternative forms which possess challenging shapes and surfaces in an effort to bridge the natural qualities of clay and fire with utilitarian nature. He specializes in wheel thrown and altered forms fired in wood, soda, and salt atmospheres. Growing up in a multigenerational home, Angelo was surrounded with heirlooms and traditions which gave him a great admiration for the objects used in his daily life and its rituals. Angelo found his love for clay and began developing his ceramic sensibilities at Valencia College where he received his Associates in Fine Arts. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art with a concentration in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Central Florida. Angelo was the first ceramic artist to win the University of Central Florida’s J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship in its history. Currently Angelo’s work is consumed with the material nature of clay as he undergoes the experimentation of new forms and firing methods.

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