Please Enjoy Pottery Classes with

David & Suzanne Gould

Good Earth Pottery & Garden - Sign-up Today!

 918-3848      degstg@bellsouth.net

www.goodearthpotteryandgarden.com

 

Good Earth Pottery and Garden looks out  over a creek and is located between Calvander & Maple View Ice Cream.

We base all our classes on personal initiative, soothing clay, and your imagination.

We offer you the chance to create on the wheel, the slab roller, and/or hand-sculpt.

Whether you keep your creations, or give them as gifts, they are sure to bring your thoughtfulness and beauty into the world for many, many years to come.  We support the unique person and artist you are!

  We further welcome you to organize your own class times with family/friends if our schedule can fit you in.

Sign-up for our 2008 January - February Term today!  918-3848          It’s Fun!

Mondays    January 7 – February 25 (7 weeks) (Holiday January 21st Martin Luther King’s Birthday)

Grades 2-8                          4:00 – 6:00 p.m.  $ 145 members $150 public   Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

Tuesdays     January 8–   February 26 (7 weeks) (CHCCS Teacher Workday January 22nd) 

Grades 3-12                        4:00 – 6:00 p.m.  $145 members $150 public    Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

Wednesdays January 9 -   February 27 (8 weeks)

Students, Adults, Retirees 11:30 –1:30 a.m. $ 160 members $165 public    Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

Grades K-5                         3:00 – 4:30 p.m. $ 130 members $ 135 public    Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.  Students, Adults, Retirees 5:30 – 7:30         $ 160 members  $165 public    Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

Students, Adults, Retirees 8:00 – 10:00       $ 160 members  $165 public    Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

 

Thursdays January 10 – February 28 (8 weeks)   

Grades K-8                         3:30 – 5:00 p.m. $ 130 members $135 public     Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

Students, Adults, Retirees 6:30- 8:30 p.m.    $160 members $165 public     Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

Fridays January 11 - February 29   (8 weeks)

Grades 2-8                         4:00 - 6:00 p.m.  $160 members $165 public      Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. 

 

David Gould is the lead teacher at Good Earth Pottery and Garden. He loves making pottery and teaching pottery. David is a 1988 graduate of Northwestern University with a B.S.S. in Speech and an area of concentration in Art.  David is the co-owner/director of Good Earth & Pottery in Chapel Hill, NC with his wife Suzanne Gould. He enjoyed making pottery as a child, collecting "Indian Clay" from down the creek behind his parent's house in Cincinnati, Ohio.  These days he is experimenting with local orange clay found under your feet from Orange County, NC.    His official time started with a classical apprenticeship in Sweden in 1979. After that beginning time, David also worked in Norway, Crete, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seagroves, and finally Calvander, NC.  David has been making pottery/ceramics for 30 years now, and teaching for over 20 years.   David taught a variety of adult classes for Northwestern, Duke, UNC-CH, and The Carrboro ArtsCenter.  He also enjoyed teaching children's ESL classes in Sweden and Crete. David taught second graders as Helen Maxwell's assistant for two years at Carrboro Elementary and fourth graders as Meg Millard's assistant at Frank Porter Graham.  For the last ten years, David has enjoyed teaching over 1,000  children and hundreds of adults through classes at the ArtsCenter, CHCCS Middle School Face Jug Workshops with Hollie Novak & Missy Valentine, and at his own studio – Good Earth Pottery & Garden. Recently he worked for The Chapel Hill Arts Commission of “Visionary Self-Portrait NC Face Jugs at McDougle Elementary.      You can read more about this at:  http://www.chapelhillarts.org/programs_residence_curr.php

                Suzanne Gould also teaches some classes and does substitute teaching.  Suzanne is a public art teacher with twenty-five years of experience.  She is a National Board Certified Teacher, has been Teacher of the Year at Phillips Middle School, and was the Lead Art Teacher for the Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools.  Debbie Englund is another of our wonderful teachers.  She has been taking care of children also for twenty five years in a variety of ways, and has her own website, www.debbieenglund.com where you can see more about her art and creative gifts. 

            Full refund for cancellation by either party is possible one week in advance of first class.  Make-ups are scheduled only during current term.  Mid-term enrollments are occasionally possible. Tuition includes Open Studio, which is on most Sundays from 2-5 for currently enrolled adults. Pottery class size is usually 6-7 students, the minimum is 4.   This 6-7-person class size provides for a nice group dynamic while retaining individual attention.   Many groups of friends and families have organized their own classes.  You provide the individual initiative and projects, while David provides technical and thoughtful support. Relaxing clay time offers you a chance to unwind and have fun. “I look forward to helping you realize your unique, delightful goals.  I hope you understand ceramics is an organic science, and there is great variability in the process.   Some pieces may crack, and sometimes the glazes have unexpected results, but I hope you will enjoy the overall experience.  I try to be thoroughly kind and supportive to each individual in the studio, and expect the same from all the students.  Students who repeatedly engage in teasing, an overly critical attitude, or are otherwise non-respectful of myself or other students or their work will be asked to be more respectful or be asked to discontinue classes.  Good Earth Pottery & Garden is a place for peace, kindness, and mutual support.   Thank you!"   -  David Gould