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noelleallen
Apr 19, 20231 min read
Student of the week: Lucy
Lucy (6th grade) has been a longtime student here at Slowfire and has taken many classes in ceramics, wheel throwing, and...
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Christina Cho
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Student of the week: Delaney
This week we are featuring Delaney! She attends Willard Elementary School’s after school ceramics program with Slowfire. She is painting...
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briemarie0618
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Adult Ceramics- Handbuilding Gnomes
by Brie Maldonado With the weather warming up our thoughts turn to the outdoors. In our ceramics classes we've started creating beautiful...
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briemarie0618
Apr 18, 20231 min read
Spring Break Camp Creativity
What's better than spending your spring break with friends, nature and art?! Okay, maybe laying on a private beach with a cold...
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Christina Cho
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Student artist of the week: Nora!
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...
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noelleallen
Mar 19, 20231 min read
Student of the Week: Lisa
Lisa has been investigating mishima and sgraffito techniques on her wheel thrown pottery. These techniques are a form of carving and then...
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maggie26mcclure
Mar 18, 20232 min read
Slowfire Spotlight: Ms. Alice
This week for our Slowfire teacher spotlight is Ms. Alice! Ms. Alice helped develop and expand Slowfire with Ms. Noelle starting in 2020....
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noelleallen
Mar 14, 20232 min read
Glaze Daze
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...
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Christina Cho
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Student artist of the week: Grace!
Grace always works carefully to make sure her pieces are something she’s proud of. During this week we created Mondrian inspired art...
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Christina Cho
Mar 7, 20231 min read
Student artist of the week: Leia!
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...
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Christina Cho
Feb 28, 20231 min read
Student artist of the week: Kathleen!
Kathleen is holding her most recent painting, a reproduction of a Bob Dylan's Lake Elsinor (2020). Kathleen is an adult student that has...
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maggie26mcclure
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Slowfire Spotlight: Ms. Salma
This week for our teacher spotlight is Ms. Salma! Ms. Salma is passionate about creating digital artwork in her free time but teaches...
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Christina Cho
Feb 19, 20231 min read
Student of the week: Sofia!
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...
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Christina Cho
Feb 15, 20231 min read
Student of the week: Aubrey!
Aubrey joins us once a week in a ceramics and pottery wheel focused class. She is quickly growing her skill set on the wheel and has been...
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noelleallen
Feb 14, 20231 min read
Chrissy and Cesar
Please welcome our two newest teachers, Chrissy and Cesar! Christina Cho holds a BS from Dominican University. She has experience in...
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maggie26mcclure
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Slowfire Spotlight: Ms. Evelyn
This week for our teacher spotlight is Ms. Evelyn! Ms. Evelyn teaches a variety of classes including painting, drawing, wheel throwing,...
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Evelyn Arreola
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Kindergarten Art - Ms. Evelyn's notes
During this session of art, our younger students have gotten more opportunity to explore materials in a big way. Kids enjoyed "breaking"...
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noelleallen
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Trimming on the wheel
Many folks are unaware that potters not only throw a cylinder on the wheel but we also let it dry to a certain point, flip it, and then...
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Christina Cho
Feb 6, 20231 min read
Slowfire's featured student of the week: Tate!
Tate, age 13, loves incorporating Studio Ghibli into their ceramic work! They had thrown a vessel on the wheel with Ms. Noelle and came...
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Evelyn Arreola
Jan 27, 20231 min read
Ms. Evelyn's Early Childhood Education Notes: Texture and Patterns
During class each student had the opportunity to discover how different materials affect watercolor. We used salt, sponges, tin foil, and...
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