Starting next week, we’re switching the roles of our two ceramics studios:
Studio One—our larger space with more wheels, more shelving, and more room to move—will now host intermediate and advanced classes.
Studio Two becomes the new home for beginning wheel and introductory ceramics.
Why the change? Because this program isn’t what it was when we started. Under the leadership of Scott McClellan, and with the strength of our outstanding ceramics instructors, more students are sticking with it—coming back quarter after quarter, making bigger pots, more ambitious sculpture, and serious progress.
This swap gives the growing edge of the program the space it needs to stretch out. It’s a practical move with a clear intention: to support more adventurous work, sharper skills, and a stronger community of makers.
It’s also the next step toward something big: Our ceramics certificate program launches Fall 2025.
Same studios. New momentum. We’re just getting started.
I’m in NY, doing a figurative sculpture marathon with Bruce Gagnier at the NY Studio School. I’m three days into a two week intensive, and I’m loving it. One of the topics my instructor presses is contrapposto. I learned about contrapposto at WWU, but I’m understanding the real value of it now. Bruce Gagnier showed me …
I like to overlap figures, and use the shadow shapes to carve out abstracts within the body. This doesn’t just introduce abstraction, it also introduces a sense of time, and movement within a static image, in which I am fascinated. I asked my model how she felt about having her head cut off in …
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Welcome a sweet selection of creations from our January 30SAL Creative Challenge. There have been over 1,000 posts on Instagram this January already! Pics in this post are selected from the following challenges: Day 2: Walk the Line Day 3: Daringly Diagonal Day 4: A day in the life of a ___. Day 2: Walk …
Ceramics Just Leveled Up
Starting next week, we’re switching the roles of our two ceramics studios:
Why the change? Because this program isn’t what it was when we started. Under the leadership of Scott McClellan, and with the strength of our outstanding ceramics instructors, more students are sticking with it—coming back quarter after quarter, making bigger pots, more ambitious sculpture, and serious progress.
This swap gives the growing edge of the program the space it needs to stretch out. It’s a practical move with a clear intention: to support more adventurous work, sharper skills, and a stronger community of makers.
It’s also the next step toward something big:
Our ceramics certificate program launches Fall 2025.
Same studios. New momentum.
We’re just getting started.
—The League
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