Tom Coleman Workshop (50% deposit) November 12-16th, 2025
Description: The Coleman School of Porcelain is located in Henderson, NV.
Note: The 50% deposit for this workshop is $750.00. A balance of $750.00 is due the week of the workshop.
All About Porcelain We Glaze First! Lots of Glaze Info from Tom, including Experimental Shino fired in Reduction, along with our New Glazes that creates crystals in the electric kiln fired to Cone 10 without a fancy firing schedule. Elaine designs and shares her Incising techniques with us for participants that are interested. Amy Kline, a longtime apprentice to Tom and Elaine, also shares her techniques for working in porcelain. Tom shows us how to polish the bottom of your work, and how to photograph your work.
Details: Limited to 7 participants, we're able to work more directly with you at your current skill level, to take you to the next step forward with your work. Porcelain isn't difficult, you just need to work with it differently than you work with stoneware or Bmix.
Porcelain: "real porcelain" is as close to working with glass as you can get without blowing glass. The higher the temp, the better the melt. If you've always loved Tom's glazes, learn directly from him how to work in porcelain to get similar results.
Requirement to participate: Be able to center and pull a 6" cylinder from about 2 lbs. in BMix, porcelain, or stoneware. We don't expect you to be great at throwing porcelain to attend this workshop. But, we need to make sure you have enough time at the wheel to center, pull up the material, and trim your work. All skill levels beyond that are great for Tom to help you go even further with your work!
Dates: November 12-16th
More Workshop Details:
Ship or bring bisque ware to this workshop. The class schedule is from Wednesday - Saturday is 8:00 am-4:30 pm. Sunday from 9:00 am - Noon. We start the workshop with lots of instruction and participation with glazing your work: Experimental Shino, Spraying Glazes, Dipping, Pouring and Brushwork. Then, we load and fire the kiln with Tom and work on the wheels with Tom.
At some point, Tom takes us through their collection of ceramics, including their favorite potters' works. If you're coming from out of town we'll send you a list of places to stay nearby.
This class includes the porcelain you'll use in the workshop. We have coffee and something yummy cooked by Elaine in the mornings. We have a fridge for people to bring their lunch, or participants head out for lunch. We also have sandwich shops nearby.
Any questions: Email us at [email protected]
Refund Policy: There are a limited amount of spaces in this workshop. A refund can be processed if it's requested 60 days in advance. Otherwise, with one person cancelling we would have to cancel the entire workshop. If you're not able to attend we will change your registration to a later workshop.