Home Educated Students: Introduction to Clay

The benefits of creating with clay extend far beyond the development of fine motor skills. This introductory course will explore how building, playing and moulding clay opens up one’s creativity and imagination while sharpening problem solving skills and improving eye-hand coordination and dexterity in this digital technology age.

Participants will experience the full process of clay building techniques, wheel throwing, firing and glazing their ceramic sculptures. This class is suitable for students aged 7-14 years old.

About the tutor: Yeonjae Choi is a ceramic artist and educator from New Zealand with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT, Melbourne where she taught art to children. She has a love for ceramic sculpture and the calming yet fragile process of building ceramic art.

Yeonjae endeavours to inspire her students to dive into the experimental world of ceramics and bring their amazing ideas into fruition by equipping them with new and fun techniques in working with clay.