Please Enjoy Pottery Classes with
David & Suzanne Gould
Good Earth Pottery & Garden
1515 Twisted Oak Dr., Chapel Hill, NC
918-3848 degstg@bellsouth.net
www.goodearthpotteryandgarden.com
Good Earth Pottery and Garden looks out over a Beaver Pond
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!
Fun David Gould Pottery Classes 2008
918-3848
Sign-up for May -
June Today !!
Mondays May 5 – June 2 (4 weeks) (Holiday May 26th – Memorial Day)
Grades K-8 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. $ 95 members $100 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Tuesdays May 6– June 3 (5 weeks)
Grades K-8 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. $115 members $120 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Wednesdays May 7 - June 4 (5 weeks)
Students, Adults, Retirees 9:30 –11:30 a.m. $ 115 members $120 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay
Grades K-8 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. $ 90 members $ 95 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay. Students, Adults, Retirees 5:30 – 7:30 $ 115 members $120 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Students, Adults, Retirees 8:00 – 10:00 $ 115 members $120 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Thursdays May 1 – June 5 (6 weeks)
Grades K-8 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. $ 105 members $110 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Students, Adults, Retirees 6:30- 8:30 p.m. $130 members $135 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Fridays May 2 – May 30 (5 weeks) End of School June 6th
Grades K-8 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. $115 members $120 public Includes glazes, firings, and 25 lbs. of clay.
Public rate includes $5 initial registration fee. Daytime parent/child classes are also available.
We welcome you to organize your own day or evening time with family/friends if our schedule can fit you in!
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. 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 Debbie Englund’s art and creative gifts.
Tuition is due at least two weeks
before the next session. We have a waiting list for many classes, and your
place will not be held if tuition is not paid. 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


