Clay Sculpture

At the Arthouse clay is one of our favorite mediums. William Jamieson partner, teacher and artist has his Masters in Ceramics and Sculpture from Boise State.

We work in all hand building techniques, slab structures, coil, pinch pot etc.. We even have our own klinn in William's studio, located in the old carriage house.

We offer clay classes for all ages and levels. This Summer starting June 13 we're having a Youth/Teen Clay/Sculpture class Monday-Thursday 1-2:30pm. This Art camp will last 2 weeks and we'll meet Monday-Thursday for an hour and a half a day.

We also offer the clay in our Mixed media "Parent and Child" classes. It's a great time to get messy with your kids and not worry about getting play-doe in the carpet or paint on the walls.

Our kids love to create with this cool and malleable medium.

My 2 year old even pinches and scratches the clay. It's great to get them involved with a creative process and medium while they are young, therefore as they grow their creativity is flourished instead of hindered.

Sculpture and Clay class projects

The Jamieson's are a family of artists and art lovers, which means they make art at least 12 hours a day. This is a picture of our entire family (even Gustav the art dog) constructing one of William Jamieson's famous Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures. Michelle Spitz from http://www.2pedalsphotography.com/ took this lovely shot, and sooner than later I'll share some more of her insight into our personal world at the Arthouse. Yes, we do live here and no I never get tired of making art, although my six year old daughter would sometimes rather eat worms...
These are some past students glazing their ceramic hand built sculptures, preparing them for a firing.
In our Clay and sculpture classes the students learn to make pinch pots, coil, slab cups and other 3dimenisional structures they are interested in.

These are the houses made from slabs of clay, they are leather hard...not quite dry enough to fire.


One of our students is scoring the edges preparing to put slip (clay glue) on the house.

The students get to spend an hour and a half on their projects. During our school year sessions we meet once a week. Although, we are coming up to our summer camps. We'll have 4 sessions and each session we meet 4 times a week. This will be a great time to do very detailed work in clay and sculpture.
Last week it was nice enough to work outside! So, the students built abstract architecture type structures.

We have our classes in all ages, as you can see we have some early teen mixed with younger youth students. They work together solving problems and creating beautiful works of art.

A little collaboration and a lot of fun.
Come take a class at the Arthouse, where art lives and grows...

Spring Session April-June 2011

We're doing fun new things this session for the parent/guardian and child classes. Let us not exclude Fathers and Grand-parents, it's not just a Mommy and me class:) First we have a new Mural painting class. We will work on large scale mural, which will be installed outside as public art the for all to see. Also we offer a Clay class where we use hand building techniques to make multiple sculptures from clay that will will be fired and glazed. In our drawing and painting class we will be working with multiple drawing materials; charcoal, graphite, pastels, ink etc and painting in water colors and acrylic. Finally, the Art Start class is our most popular class, because you get a variety of all mediums, clay, paint, fibers, sculpture, drawing... I hope to hear from you at the arthouse. Come and enjoy making art with our children along with the company of other parents.

Spring Session 2011

Contact the Arthouse by email arthousenoblesville@hotmail.com or call us 773-0038