November 14, 2023 By: Josslyn Baron Calling all Slowfire families & individuals! Do you absolutely love your Slowfire class or teacher?...

November 10, 2023 By: Josslyn Baron I teach ceramics bi-weekly at a retirement community called Three Crowns Park in Evanston. Here, I...

November 3, 2023 By: Josslyn Baron In October, I hosted a weekly drawing workshop at the Oak Park Public Library for adults! We focused...

Dashiell, age 11, loves exploring anime/manga style in his artwork. Dashiell has been a Slowfire student for a year now and has improved...

By day, Lexi is a working mom who specializes in woodworking. By night, she is a ceramic student at Slowfire! Lexi came to Slowfire with...

by Brie Maldonado So you've just finished your ceramics class at Slowfire. You proudly walk your finished work to the back room and...

Paloma joins us from The Children’s School. She is enrolled in our after school ceramics class. She is learning hand building techniques...

Lucy (6th grade) has been a longtime student here at Slowfire and has taken many classes in ceramics, wheel throwing, and...

This week we are featuring Delaney! She attends Willard Elementary School’s after school ceramics program with Slowfire. She is painting...

by Brie Maldonado With the weather warming up our thoughts turn to the outdoors. In our ceramics classes we've started creating beautiful...

What's better than spending your spring break with friends, nature and art?! Okay, maybe laying on a private beach with a cold...

Nora is one of Slowfire’s many talented tween ceramic artists. She has an amazing imagination, as well as an eye for detail and color. We...

Lisa has been investigating mishima and sgraffito techniques on her wheel thrown pottery. These techniques are a form of carving and then...

This week for our Slowfire teacher spotlight is Ms. Alice! Ms. Alice helped develop and expand Slowfire with Ms. Noelle starting in 2020....

Did you know we make all of our own glazes from scratch at Slowfire? Alice and Noelle work together to develop all of the glazes that are...

Grace always works carefully to make sure her pieces are something she’s proud of. During this week we created Mondrian inspired art...

Leia is one of Slowfire’s first students! She has taken a wide range of classes, and most recently began learning the wheel. Leia loves...

Kathleen is holding her most recent painting, a reproduction of a Bob Dylan's Lake Elsinor (2020). Kathleen is an adult student that has...

This week for our teacher spotlight is Ms. Salma! Ms. Salma is passionate about creating digital artwork in her free time but teaches...

Sofia has been an SF student for 2.5 years! She loves wheel throwing and sculpting and has been working on combining both of these...