Ceramic Pottery June 21 – 26
Registration Details:
- Program Dates: June 21-26, 2026
- Cost: $1,680
- Eligibility: Open to rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors
- Tuition Includes: Lodging, meals, course materials, activities, and excursions
- Housing & Dining: Students reside in campus residence hall and dine in campus dining hall
- Deposit & Payment: A $500 deposit is required at registration, with the remaining balance due by May 1, 2026. After that date, full payment is required upon registration. Click here to view our cancellation policy.
- Enrollment: Open until all spaces are filled
- Registration: Registration is through the Camp Doc platform. Detailed step-by-step registration instructions are available here.
Clay Arts Workshop: Build, Carve, and Bring Your Work Home
Gain hands on experience in the ceramics studio and learn new techniques. Express creativity while learning to manipulate clay into sculpture and pottery. Create vessels by wheel-throwing and coil building. Learn to paint with underglazes. Form plates & shallow bowls by rolling out clay and carving. Take home your creations!
Program Topics
- Clay and how it is used to make pottery
- The properties of clay and why we can use it to make sculpture and pottery
- Clay and it uses in industries
- Firing and Programing an electric kiln
- How to layer underglazes to create depth at a low temperature
Hands on Learning
- Learn to make wheel thrown pottery
- Create a coil vessel
- Make slab plates
- Tour a ceramic studio and a production studio
Sample Schedule:
| Morning | 8 a.m. – Breakfast 9 a.m. – Wheel thrown pottery 12 p.m. – Lunch & free time |
| Afternoon | 1 p.m. – Firing and programing an electric kiln |
| Evening | 5 p.m. – Dinner 6:30 p.m. – Activities / Recreation / Free Time Options could include: sand volleyball, Asheville Tourists game, game night, movie 11 p.m. – Lights out |
Meet Your Faculty
Louise Deroualle teaches ceramics in the the Art department and UNC Asheville. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Louise moved to the U.S. in 2013 to pursue a Master’s degree in Ceramics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Louise is an artist and exhibits her artwork nationally. She has been awarded competitive residencies and fellowships, including the Roswell Artist-in-Residency and The Aspen Art Museum Fellowship.
Questions? Please contact us at precollege@unca.edu.