Sculptural Handbuilding - 4 weeks

Learn building techniques, clay properties, sturdy attachment methods, surface texture creation, and underglaze application for vibrant decorations.

 

Join artist Jonah Strub for a 4-week Handbuilding class, where you'll explore creating colorful and whimsical sculptures! This class is perfect for all levels, especially beginners (14+), and focuses on bringing your unique ideas to life. Whether you’re crafting functional pottery or purely sculptural pieces, you’ll discover how to make your vision a reality.

This class is for single registration for adults of all skill levels

• Expect to get a bit dirty with clay slip, but all materials used will wipe off with water, or come out in the laundry
• The last 20 minutes of the class will be dedicated to clean-up.
• Your pottery will be fired by our team to make it food-safe, and ready for pickup 3 weeks after the class
• This class is four weeks of 3 hour sessions each
• This class includes up to 4 small sculptural pieces, or one large sculptural piece, larger or additional pieces may have additional firing fees

• Bring some ideas for inspiration for what you would like to work towards making.
• Please bring an apron and hand towel for you to use during the class.
• Short trimmed nails are ideal for ceramic creativity, but our team is happy to instruct some work-arounds for acrylics. Nails over 1" are not recommended.

• Purchases are nonrefundable, and rescheduling requires 72 hours' notice.
• The studio is not liable for lost or broken pieces, recognizing explosions and cracks as inherent in the ceramic process.
• Please be sure to arrive on time, late arrivals may be denied entry.
• Please review our Studio and Breakage Policy for more details.

Jonah Strub is a Toronto-based sculptor, painter, and ceramicist. Jonah graduated with a BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph, and in 2019 he completed his degree abroad at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany. Jonah has participated in the 2023 Winter Emerging Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta, and was awarded an UNTAPPED Emerging Artist exhibition space at The Artist Project 2023 in Toronto. He has exhibited at institutions across Canada and internationally such as The Canadian Clay and Glass Museum in Waterloo, ON, The Banff Centre in Banff, AB, The Plumb in Toronto, ON, Black Book Gallery in Denver, CO, and Kunstpunkt Gallery in Berlin, Germany. 

Through sculptural handbuilding techniques and ornate underglazed surfaces that channel his painting background, Jonah intends to project joy and playfulness through his work. His artwork is a visual love letter to the aesthetics of camp, kitsch, musical theatre, Yiddish humour, and drag. His inspirations often derive from strong Jewish women, theatrical costumes and patterns, toys, and the queer Jewish sensibilities of tasteless tchotchkes. Many of his pieces resemble toys and can be interacted with, often inviting the viewer to engage with and activate the clay characters’ personalities and stories. By using humour, bright colours, animal prints, and silly creatures, Jonah highlights the joys of Matzo ball-flavoured femininity, effervescent queerness, charismatic characters, the beauty of bric-a-brac, and the opulence of outrageous up-dos. 

@vicksvapostrub
https://www.jonahstrub.com/