Everyday Whimsy: Hand-Built Sculptural Vessels with Lora Shelley
May 5, 2025 - June 9, 2025
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Instructor: Lora Shelley
Class Type: Six-week handbuilding class
Skill Level: All Levels
Time: Mondays 5 – 7PM
Dates: May 5 – June 9
Make Up Date: June 16
Learn to make imaginative functional objects for your everyday life! In this class we will explore different methods of hand-building— including slab, coil, pinch, and hollowing out a form. Embracing experimentation and play, we’ll dream up whimsical designs and make them come to life. Make your own custom dinnerware accessories. Brighten up your kitchen counter with a raccoon sugar bowl and matching spoon. Make a squirrel-themed paint palette with mushroom brush rest and woodsy water vessel. The possibilities are endless!
Register today for an outdoor clay adventure! Take advantage of the inspiring golden hours to express yourself creatively during our Plein Air Pottery sessions at WSW. While we work on our new and improved studio, our ceramic program is setting up camp on the back deck outside of the silkscreen studio! In case of inclement weather: the outdoor space is shaded in the afternoon and evening and has a covering adequate to provide shelter from light rain.
Artist
Lora Shelley
RISD Graduate, Lora Shelley (BFA in Illustration ’94) has been exhibiting her work near and far for over 30 years. Lora’s work is in private collections around the globe from Africa to France, Italy, Germany and Australia with original paintings and print work found in the collections of actors, musicians as well as an American Ambassador. Her work has been featured in many publications — including the New York Times, Decor Magazine, Chronogram, The Valley Table, etc.
Primarily a painter and printmaker, Lora continues to experiment in diverse media — including fiber, wood and clay. Her clay work is more playful in nature. She is inspired by everyday moments. An animal lover, Lora depicts our shared experiences and relationships with the creatures around us. Through all of her work the thread of her passion and style is evident in her narrative imagery drawn from dream worlds: worlds of a kinder nature- where one has a moment of reflection to ponder life and feel in each piece one’s own story.
Lora has had a continued role for many years as a volunteer bowl painter at the Chilibowl fundraiser at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, where she teaches hand-building clay classes. Lora also teaches classes in Linocut and etching at the Neighborhood Print Studio in Kingston, NY — sharing her love for printmaking.
You can learn more about Lora’s work at lorashelley.com and Instagram @lorashelley