Workshop: Adding texture to clay
Mar
9
1:00 PM13:00

Workshop: Adding texture to clay

Sprigging, carving, water etching - these are just a few methods to personalize clay surfaces. We will cover a variety of techniques to add visual and tactile texture to the surfaces of your pottery in this short workshop as well as a quick demonstration on how to glaze or stain these surfaces once bisque fired. We will be working with damp and leather hard clay, tiles will be provided and you may bring pottery with you.

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Class: Wheel Throwing with Porcelain
Nov
8
to Dec 20

Class: Wheel Throwing with Porcelain

  • Community Creative Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing Porcelain? Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls. We will also discuss some of the surface decoration techniques that Jenny uses regularly.

This class will teach correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try the challenge of Porcelain, this is a great class too. If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Sign up for this class at the Community Creative Center

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Sale: Homegrown Festival
Oct
7
9:00 AM09:00

Sale: Homegrown Festival

  • Historic Downtown Siloam Spring, AR, 72761 USA (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Dowd House Studios is excited to be part of this festival!

Located in historic downtown Siloam Springs, the Homegrown Festival showcases locally handmade goods, curated vintage, food trucks, and live music. Vendors offer an array of original, one-of-a-kind, and limited-run items including illustration, printmaking, music, jewelry and accessories, handmade goods, salvaged and repurposed goods, and hand-picked vintage.

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Aug
25
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Pottery-Wheel 1 & 2 Combined
Aug
13
to Sep 17

Class: Pottery-Wheel 1 & 2 Combined

  • Community Creative Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Dig deeper into wheel throwing as Instructors guide you towards making pottery that you can use everyday! Building upon basic skills, students continue to explore wheel throwing techniques including taller cylinders, pulling handles, refining rims and trimming. Students are encouraged to explore cup and bowl forms. Students will be introduced to basic glazing techniques. Students who have the basics down will begin to develop their skills towards more refined forms.

Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Jul
8
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Mar
10
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Feb
24
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Wheel Throwing with Porcelain
Feb
15
to Mar 22

Class: Wheel Throwing with Porcelain

  • Community Creative Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing Porcelain? Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls. We will also discuss some of the surface decoration techniques that Jenny uses regularly.

This class will teach correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try the challenge of Porcelain, this is a great class too. If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Sign up for this class at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Wheel Throwing 1
Feb
13
to Mar 20

Class: Wheel Throwing 1

  • Community Creative Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls! Instructors teach through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Sign up for this 6-week class at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Feb
10
4:00 PM16:00

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Sculpting Tiny Food
Feb
7
5:00 PM17:00

Class: Sculpting Tiny Food

Make your favorite foods from polymer clay! Designed for beginners, this workshop will focus on the basics of working with polymer clay. We will roll, pinch, cut, and texture the colorful clay and make tiny foods that might just make you hungry for the real deal! All materials will be provided, including instructions for how to harden your clay food in an oven after you get home.

 

Jenny Dowd is a full-time potter and artist. Fascinated by the relationship between collector and object, Jenny primarily works in clay to produce functional, quirky, interactive pieces that jive with place and person. Jenny and her husband, Sam, live in Prairie Grove where they co-own Dowd House Studios. They work under the watchful eye of studio cat, Merlin.

Registration opens January 17th: https://www.faylib.org/event/7792307

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Feb
4
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Family Pottery
Dec
17
4:00 PM16:00

Class: Family Pottery

Family time spent around the pottery wheel! In this one-off workshop, you’ll learn the basics of wheel throwing while spending quality time with the family. Our instructor will walk everyone through, step by step. Join us in the studio to learn, make a mess, but most of all have fun! All supplies included. Workshop requires a minimum 6 registered participants to run.

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Dec
16
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Sale: Open Studio & 2nds Pottery Sale
Dec
10
3:00 PM15:00

Sale: Open Studio & 2nds Pottery Sale

We are your friendly neighborhood potters of Prairie Grove and we are having an open studio party! Stop by and we will be excited to show you behind the scenes of Dowd House Studios, check out our new space (functioning, though still a work in progress)

Join us for snacks & drinks and also a Seconds Sale! All those little not-so-happy accidents that happen during the making and glazing processes, they may be minor flaws but these special pots don’t always make it into our regular inventory.

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Dec
9
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Date Night Pottery Class
Nov
11
6:30 PM18:30

Class: Date Night Pottery Class

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up.

This one-night class is an easy way to try out the wheel with a friend! Sign up at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Wheel Throwing 1 with Porcelain
Nov
9
to Dec 14

Class: Wheel Throwing 1 with Porcelain

  • Community Creative Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Have you always wanted to try wheel throwing Porcelain? Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls! This class will teach correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you have taken other wheel classes, but always wanted to try the challenge of Porcelain, this is a great class too! If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Sign up for this class at the Community Creative Center

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Class: Wheel Throwing 1
Nov
7
to Dec 12

Class: Wheel Throwing 1

  • Community Creative Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Are you ready to get your hands dirty? Join our wheel class for beginners that will teach you all the basics of making your own cups and bowls! Instructors teach through demonstrations to show you correct throwing posture, centering, and pulling up cylinders. This class is designed for students with no prior experience and focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of throwing. If you are ready to fall in love with pottery, this is the class you are looking for!

Sign up for this 6-week class at the Community Creative Center

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Sale: NWA Makers Market - Fall
Nov
6
10:00 AM10:00

Sale: NWA Makers Market - Fall

Over 150 local makers, one beautiful venue. Everything made in NWA by people who live in NWA.

Join us at the Washington County Fairgrounds on Sunday November 6th as local artists, makers, and craftspeople of all kinds show off and sell everything from unique art to handmade furniture, EVERYTHING locally made by people who live in Northwest Arkansas!

10a-4p
Food and refreshments available for purchase from local businesses on site.
Indoor/outdoor event, rain or shine!
Shop local!

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