March 6-8, 2026 - Surface Extravaganza with AMACO Expert Educator Jennifer Hoolihan
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March 6-8, 2026 – Surface Extravaganza with AMACO Expert Educator Jennifer Hoolihan

Dates: March 6-8, 2026
Days: Friday-Sunday
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fee: $150 per person

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Join us for a dynamic three-day AMACO Mid-Range Glaze Intensive with Expert Jennifer Hoolihan at The Village Potters Clay Center!

Have you been working with commercial glazes and wishing you understood them more deeply—how they work, how to control them, and how to unlock their full creative potential?
Do you want greater success, richer results, and multiple techniques for designing expressive surfaces? No prior experience using Amaco products is needed?

Then this workshop is absolutely for you! 

Get ready to dive deep into color, texture, and experimentation as we explore an incredible range of AMACO glazes, including Potter’s Choice, Kiln Ice, plus Celadons, Satin Mattes, the new Crawls, and Phase glazes for truly magical layering.

Local potters may know our amazing guest instructor, Jennifer Hoolihan, from her days working the Highwater Clays as their glaze chemist, She now uses her skill and expertise to help ceramic artists across the country create their own unique surface designs using AMACO's extensive line of products.

Over three immersive days, you’ll experience a powerful blend of demonstrations, hands-on making, glazing, decorating, and firing:

  • Day 1: We’ll kick off with exciting demonstrations on glaze application, layering strategies, and surface decoration using a variety of techniques including wax, mid-range majolica and glaze trailing. You’ll begin glazing 6 to 8 of your own small bisque pieces or test tiles. We will load our kiln at the end of the day and fire.
  • Day 2: Continue experimenting with glaze combinations and textures on remaining bisque pieces as we prepare to load the kiln again in the afternoon. You’ll have the opportunity to try out a wide range of AMACO products and push your creative boundaries with expert guidance.
  • Day 3: We’ll open the kiln as a group and examine the results, providing an invaluable chance to learn from successes, surprises, and everything in between. Then we’ll shift into a hands-on session with Ceramic Inks, printing on both bisque and leather-hard clay to expand your surface vocabulary even further.

What To Bring:

  • Please bring 8-12 small pieces of bisque along with a couple of leather hard pieces for day three. Tumblers, small bottles, and forms made from 1–2 lbs of clay are ideal. Please note: We are not able to accommodate large pieces for this workshop. The focus is on exploring surface-design possibilities, and the pieces you fire will serve as test examples you can use to inform and inspire your future work back in your home studio.
  • You may also want to bring a sketchbook, an apron, and your curiosity.
Jennifer will provide brushes, glaze supplies, underglaze pens, wax, some extra bisque and lots of fired examples.

This workshop is a rare opportunity to explore dozens of AMACO glazes, learn powerful layering techniques, and see your results fired in real time.

Come ready to test, discover, and leave inspired!

Cancellation Policy

Student Cancellation

  • Cancellation up to 45 days prior to the start of the workshop, students have the option to transfer their registration to a different workshop that has spaces available, receive a credit equal to the value of the workshop to use for a future workshop or class within a year, or receive a refund (minus a $75 administrative fee).
  • Cancellation within 45-30 days to the start of the workshop, students will receive no refund, but will have the option to transfer their registration to a different workshop that has spaces available, or receive a credit equal to the value of the workshop to use for a future workshop or class within a year. 
  • Cancellation within 30-0 days of the start of the workshop, students will receive no refund and are ineligible for registration transfer.

*Whenever possible, The Village Potters Clay Center will attempt to fill a canceled registration spot with a student from the waitlist. If the vacancy is successfully filled, the initial registrant will then have the option of a refund (minus a $75 administrative fee).

The Village Potters Clay Center Cancellation

  • In the rare event that a class is canceled by The Village Potters Clay Center, students will be given the option of transferring their registration to a different or future workshop, receive

 

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