Registration Fee $64.00; Class Fee, Due Directly to the Instructor at the Beginning of Class: $225.00; Materials: $15.00. Total cost of class $304.
Taught By Judi Munn & John Perry
Learn to create beautiful, functional mugs, bowls, vases, and other pottery using an electric potter's wheel.
This class is for beginning to intermediate students who would like to learn the fundamentals of throwing and trimming. We will also explore adding handles and decorating techniques. No experience necessary.
This is a three-day class during Ozark Folk School. The registration deadline is two weeks before the beginning of class.
Registration Fee Due When Signing Up: $64.00
Class Fee, Due Directly to the Instructor at the Beginning of Class: $225.00
Materials: $15.00
Total Cost of Class: $304.00
Lodging is available in the park at our Cabins at Dry Creek, newly remodeled duplex-style hotel rooms. There is a Folk School discount for students booking more than 5 days. Call the Cabins office at 800-264-3655 to book with the discount. To book rooms for less than 5 days, click here.
Meal plans are available for the Spring Folk School, March 16 - 20, 2020 at a Folk School discounted rate. Click on the Breakfast or Lunch listing with this class registration to sign up and pay for your meals.
Breakfast at the Cabins Rec Room
Pre-registration price $7.50
Fresh-baked muffin, yogurt, cereal & milk, granola bar, choice of juice, coffee or bottled water.
Lunch at the Smokehouse 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pre-registered price $8.50
Choice of ham or turkey sandwich; chicken strips; hot dog; hamburger, vegetarian bratwurst.
Choice of chips, fries, or salad.
Choice of drink (Coke products).
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Meet Your Instructors
Judi Munn & John Perry
John Perry and Judi Munn are the resident potters at the Ozark Folk Center. During the visitor season, as they make the beautiful pottery they sell in their shop and throughout the southeast, they demonstrate the art of making wheel-thrown pottery to the public. They form pots, mugs, plates, bowls, jars, vases and cups out of raw clay. The following day, they trim and decorate them. To decorate the pot they press a fern or hand-made stencil into the surface of the clay. Colored clay, or slip, is then painted over the stencil. Once the colored clay stiffens, the fern or stencil is removed.
Judi Munn’s path to become a potter was not a direct one. She is certified to teach and holds a Master's Degree in a field other than pottery. Judi took up pottery with the idea of adding Art to her list of teaching certifications. In 1992, after a year and a half of classes, she got an apprenticeship at the Ozark Folk Center with David and Becki Dahlstedt. Her husband John Perry began his apprenticeship in pottery in 1996. They both teach pottery at various times of the year at the Folk Center.
They say “We love making our living using our hands. It is satisfying to start with a lump of clay and produce a piece of work that may last for 5000 years, or more! The work sold here is functional stoneware. We designed it to be used and enjoyed."
Judi’s work is in the collections of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Dale Bumper’s wife. An article written by Judi was published in January of 2002 in Ceramics Monthly Magazine. It was called “Pure Whimsy” and focused on her slip decorated animal pottery. One of her pitchers is included in the book 500 Pitchers.
