We now allow Late Class Enrollment! - $25 discount for each missed class - up to three classes. Students who join late must have some experience with clay. This is for late enrollment only, not missed classes during the course!

All Classes in our March to April Session are now full.

Registration for our late April to mid-June classes

will open in mid-February. Please check back then.

This Class is Full Tuesday AM 10:30am – 12:30pm………..............All Level Wheel Throwing ……………starts 2/28 with Sharon Virtue

This Class is Full Tuesday PM 7:00pm – 9:00pm………..All Level Hand-building and Throwing ……starts 2/28 with Judy Waitz

This Class is Full Thursday PM 7:00pm – 9:00pm ….............. All Level Wheel Throwing…………….…..starts 3/1  with Bonita Cohn

This Class is Full Saturday AM 10:30am – 12:30pm……….Introduction to Clay …………………...starts 3/3  with Sharon Virtue

*All Levels Classes focus on the beginner, however, individual help and demos are provided for more advanced students.

** Intro to Clay includes hand-building techniques as well as wheel throwing.

CLASS AVAILABILITY MAY CHANGE AFTER OUR PERIODIC UPDATES!

Please call the studio to check class availability   415-558-9819

For more information about classes please contact:
Ruby's Clay Studio & Gallery
552A Noe Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Tel: (415) 558-9819

The cost is $270 for an evening class (Tues. & Thurs. PM) or $260 for the Tues. or Sat. morning class.

The class fee covers instruction in 8 two hour classes, studio time, use of over twenty high fire glazes, and firing of your work.  Tools and clay are not provided; however Ruby’s provides these materials at a greatly discounted rate. Classes are limited to ten students.  Studio time is unlimited for all students during the eight weeks of their class.  Guaranteed firing is limited to the work made with 25 lbs of clay.  Additional work (within reason) is fired free of charge, as space permits.

Registration for classes requires FULL PAYMENT FOR THE CLASS. Payments may be mailed to Ruby’s or left in the manager’s “lock-box” at the same address. Spots cannot be held without full payment.
Please include a completed registration form with your deposit. Checks will be returned by mail if the requested class is already full. Terms for partial or full refunds may be viewed below. Please call, e-mail, or drop by during manager’s hours if you have questions. Classes sometimes fill shortly after the schedule is announced.

Refund Policy: Class payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. Circumstances which may allow for refunds are:
    1) A physician's note stating a condition which prevents the student from working in clay or at the studio.
    2) Instances of extreme, unexpected hardship. This may include the death or serious illness of someone close. Exceptions of this kind are granted at the discretion of the manager. Changes in a student's priorities, job or vacation plans do not constitute the means for a refund. Having stated this, studio managers will attempt to assist students by granting partial refunds if a replacement student can be found for the class. When replacements are found (before the third class), students are granted a refund equal to the pro-rated amount paid by the new student, less a $20 fee for accounting.

Teacher Information

Steve Allen

Steve began throwing pottery in 1985.  His ceramic sculpture can be found in many private and permanent collections including the de Young Museum, Ceramics Research Center, and Lincoln Public Library.  Steve received an MFA from San Francisco State University in 2008.  He is an award-winning sculptor and has shown his work nationally and internationally.  He creates a variety of artwork from complex sculptural assemblages to functional pottery.

Jennifer Brazelton

Jennifer began working with clay in 1998 and was quickly hooked. She went on to  receive her MFA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University. Her complex, detailed, abstract sculptures incorporate thrown and hand-built elements. Her passion for the medium combined with her easy going personality create a safe environment for creative exploration.  Jennifer currently teaches at California State East Bay, Merritt College, and the Richmond Art Center. She was an invited artist at the recent Ceramics Annual of America. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally. More information can be found at her website: www.jenniferbrazelton.com

Bonita Cohn

Bonnie began her clay work in 1968, and specializes in throwing on the potters wheel.  She received her MFA from San Francisco

Art Institute.  She has shown her work nationally and internationally, and is in many private and public collections, including American Museum of Ceramic Art, in Pomona CA, and the Goshogowara Museum in Japan.   She has participated in numerous wood firings in California and Oregon. She is a member, emeritus, of ACGA and the Baulines Craft Guild.

       

Sharon Virtue
Sharon has been teaching throwing classes at Ruby’s clay studio for over 9 years. She also teaches workshops at the Esalen Institute and works on community development  programs in the Bay Area, Uganda, Brazil and Mozambique.

She was the artist in residence at the DeYoung Museum in 2006, and is the winner of several ceramic awards and grants including the NCECA artist in residence program in Ghana in 2009/10.

Originally trained in sculpture, Sharon’s ceramic work has always been influenced by textile design and printmaking.

She obtained her BA (hons) in Fine Art from the UK, and came to San Francisco shortly afterwards. “Ruby’s has been my ceramic home for over 15 years and I have a strong connection to this community, I want to share what I have learned and bring some new energy into our ceramic classes”.

'Out of the Round' is a new class designed for more advanced students, and combines hand-building, throwing and altering clay.

Sharon also created and runs the MUD BUS project, a ceramic outreach project from Ruby’s Clay studio, providing free clay classes to youth in San Francisco. 

www.virtuevision.org.

Judy Waitz
Received a broad ceramic education through studio classes, college courses and many workshops around the country. She has been a potter since 1995 and has been teaching hand building and throwing classes since 1999. Her work focuses on functional pieces and has been exhibited throughout the U.S.