Clay-Working Class At VGCC Offers Fun, Chance To Create

Anyone who wants to have fun and make things would benefit from the clay (hand-building) class that will begin Sept. 11 at Vance-Granville Community College, according to Copper Rain, who will teach the class.

All work in the class will be done by hand rather than using a potter’s wheel and, “We’ll make anything you can imagine,” Rain said. These items include simple bowls, cups and picture frames up to decorative art pieces.

Rain said she will teach coil, pinch and slab methods of working with clay. This will be the second class she has taught at VGCC, the first being in Spring semester this year.

As an artist, Rain works in painting, sculpture and fabric art, in addition to clay. She worked in potters’ studios in Texas and Raleigh, studied portrait sculpture at the Elizabet Ney Museum in Austin, Texas, and took design classes at Meredith College in Raleigh.

The clay class will cover 36 hours and will be held 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Mondays, Sept. 11-Dec. 4, in Room 5227 on VGCC’s main campus in Vance County. Registration cost is $45.

To pre-register, or for more information, call the VGCC Continuing Education office at (252) 492-2061.

 In the photo above Martha Bergeron and Maria Bailey, seated center and right, show Beth Wortham, left, some of the clay pieces created in the clay (hand-building) class taught at Vance-Granville Community College during Spring semester by Copper Rain, standing. Wortham, Bergeron and Bailey have signed up for the Fall semester class beginning Sept. 11.