NELSONVILLE, Ohio—As winter slowly turns to spring, maybe it’s time to venture outside, brave the ever-changing Ohio weather and interact with people who don’t live with you.
The Hocking Makers Network has classes all through March to help you reintegrate into society.
Glass Shop Basics Workshop
Feb. 29, 1-3 p.m. - LVL 1 GLASS - Paige Fox - $30 per participant
Participants will learn the basics of Hot Shop safety, how to pull and gather from the furnace, and will make glass flowers! Come learn how glass blowing is done, how to work our equipment and meet our great staff. This workshop will last two hours and will result in one to two objects. Sign up for the class here.
Community Glaze Night
Feb. 29, 5-7 p.m. - Community - Free
Glaze Night is a community event where makers can bring their bisqueware to glaze with friends! There will be pizza and cocoa. If you bring your own glaze, the event is free, or you can use ours for $5. This event is also free to January ceramics workshop participants. Sign up for the class here.
Ceramic Cereal Bowl & Spoon Workshop
March 7, 1-4 p.m. - LVL 2 Ceramics - Whitney Goller - $35 per participant
March 7 is National Cereal Day! Participants will learn to make ceramic bowls on the wheel and hand-built spoons with instructor Whitney Goller. This workshop will cover centering, pulling, adding a foot, hand-building techniques and surface decoration. Then join us again for Glaze Night on March 28 to add finish up your bowl and spoon! This workshop will last three hours and will result in two objects. Sign up for the class here.
Spring Equinox Ceramic Workshop
March 21, 1-3 p.m. - LVL 2 - Paige Fox - $35 per participant
March 19 is the Spring Equinox! Participants will learn to make planters on the wheel and hand-built seed bombs with instructor Paige Fox. This workshop will cover centering, pulling and hand-building techniques. Then join us again for Glaze Night to add finish up your bowl and spoon! This workshop will last three hours and will result in two objects. Sign up for the class here.
Glassblowing With Don Kocian
March 28, 10-12 p.m. - LVL 2 Glass - Don Kocian - $50 per participant
Participants will learn to make blown glass objects with instructor Don Kocian. This workshop will refresh on the basics of gathering and will move into blown glass. This workshop will last two hours and will result in two to three objects that participants can pick up the next week. Sign up for the class here.
Community Glaze Night
March 28, 5-7 p.m. - Community - Free
Glaze Night is a community event where makers can bring their bisqueware to glaze with friends! There will be pizza and cocoa. If you bring your own glaze, this event is free, or you can use ours for $5. This event is also free to January ceramics workshop participants. Sign up for the class here.
What is the Hocking Makers Network?
The Hocking Makers is devoted to empowering people to find their passions through introductions to tools, approachable and affordable classes, and workshop membership opportunities to pursue their interests on their own. It is envisioned to help the residents of Nelsonville and surrounding communities. HMN provides a network of workshops, tools, resources, classes, connections and opportunities that help expose people to skills, careers and potential they didn’t know they had. Although operated by Hocking College, HMN is not overtly branded as a Hocking College entity and is intended to be a self-sustaining non-profit. The Network currently uses three locations: a welding lab in Logan, a wood lab just outside of Nelsonville and the Visual Arts Center on Hocking College’s Nelsonville campus. For more information on the Hocking Makers Network, visit the group’s website.
