This class concentrates on throwing skills for the beginning and intermediate student, and also explores the fundamentals of handbuilding. Beginning students who focus on the wheel will learn the basic skills of centering, opening, and pulling vessels, in preparation for throwing cylinders, bowls and cups. Continuing wheel students will concentrate on improving their throwing skills, and will have an opportunity to form bowls, lids, baking dishes, goblets, mugs and pitchers. Students interested in handbuilding will undertake a variety of projects that utilize slab construction, round and flat coil construction, pinch-forming methods, surface texturing, carving, and other techniques. For beginning and experienced students.