Classes

Youth & Adult Art Classes - Summer Classes Open for Registration!

We pride ourselves on offering a wide variety of art forms for all ages. In addition to our scheduled classes listed below, we can create a private class on-site or at your site for you or your organization! For more information email stephannie@themuck.org.

2024 On-Site Class Schedule:

Summer Schedule:
Session 1: June 3rd- July 5th
Session 2: July 8th- Aug 9th

See pricing below each class description.
Members receive 10% off class fee. Click here to renew your membership or to join.

Online registration closes 72 hours before first class session. To inquire about late registration please call Stephannie Vicuña at 714-738-6366

Online registration closes 72 hours before first class session. To inquire about late registration, please call 714-738-6595.

Everyday Creative Ceramics
Thursdays - 2:00pm-4:00pm
May 16th - June 13th
Cost: Non Member: $170; Member: 10% off

Create your own utilitarian and decorative ceramic pieces for everyday use with Master Ceramist, Young Shin Kim. You will learn how to make pieces with both hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Learn how to conceive forms and how to complete the pieces with slip, stain, and glaze. Learn the Buncheong technique, a special decoration skill with white slip, rooted in Korean traditional pottery. All the pieces are glazed with lead-free and food safe glazes and are fired at high-firing in gas kilns.

Adult Pottery Class
with Rowan Harrison
Wednesdays - 6:30pm-8:30pm
June 5th - July 3rd
Cost: Non Member: $170; Member: 10% off

This 5-week summer course introduces students to the basics of throwing on the potter's wheel. Your instructor will cover technique, trimming, and glazing application. Class includes one bag of clay, glazes and firing fees.

Ceramics/Handbuilding with Rowan Harrison
Tuesdays - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
June 4th - July 2nd
Cost: Non Member: $170.00; Member: 110% off

The class will entail all the processes of hand building with clay which includes working in the classic traditional coiling and slab methods. Projects, shapes and forms within the five week program will all be created without the use of the potters wheel. Students will have the opportunity to explore glazing techniques, hand painting with underglazes and other decorative methods. Rowan Harrison's work is connected and inspired by his Native American culture and the techniques of traditional Native American pottery will be explored in this session.

Wreck This Journal
with Stephanie Pratt
Thursdays - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
June 6th - July 4th
Adults
Cost: Non Member: $170; Member: 10% off

Explore uninhibited creativity through a series of quirky prompts from the acclaimed artist Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal. Color outside the lines, scribble, and make mistakes on purpose. Remember, to wreck is to create! Or A guided completion of the acclaimed artist Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal | For anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook.

Photography
with Stephanie Pratt
Mondays - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
June 3rd - July 1st
Adults
Cost: Non Member: $170; Member: 10% off

Develop your creative photography style while exploring new techniques in this independent project based course. Exchange constructive criticism in a supportive environment with fellow photographers. All levels welcome! Full manual or semi-manual cameras are recommended. Film cameras, compact cameras and smartphones also welcome!

Sculpture and Ceramics Open Studio
with Erika Flores
Thursdays: 5:30pm-7:30pm
June 6th - July 4th
Adults
Cost: Non-Member $170; Members 10% off

Explore your creativity in the open studio ceramics and sculpture class led by Erika Flores. This class offers a supportive environment for working on personalized projects while receiving guidance in ceramic techniques, sculpture skills, design, and anatomy. Unleash your artistic potential under Erika's expertise.