Wheel Thrown Pottery

Discover the basics of wheel thrown pottery. This four-session workshop gives you the time and space to practice all aspects of throwing and shaping pottery. Whether you are a beginner or intermediate student, you will be able to develop skills at your own pace. Learn more about our historic classes.

All materials and supplies are provided. We ask that you provide your own towel for your personal use. Please note, the date for which you register is the first meeting of the workshop. 

This class is for individuals ages 13+. Anyone under the age of 16 must register with an adult.  

Purchase Tickets

Session 1: January 7, 14, 21, and 28 (1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)
Session 2: January 7, 14, 21, and 28 (6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.)
Session 3: February 11, 18, 25, and March 4 (1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)
Session 4: February 11, 18, 25, and March 4 (6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.)
Session 5: March 18, 25, and April 1 and 8 (1 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)
Session 6: March 18, 25, and April 1 and 8 (6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.) 

Members: $155 | Nonmembers: $170 (Cost is per session) 

About the Teachers

Evangeline Bouw
Growing up, going to art museums, and watching her father, a professional illustrator, work sealed Evangeline Bouw’s fate to be an artist. She fell in love with pottery and proceeded to take every high school ceramic class offered. That continued at Taylor University where she earned her BA. Though her focus was theatre arts, she took every art class she could and continued to hone her craft. 

Evangeline is now the Lead Potter at Conner Prairie. She manages and works in both the Modern Pottery Studio and the Historic Pottery Shop in Prairietown. She spends her days demonstrating early 19th-century pottery techniques, teaching classes, and producing all the pottery for Conner Prairie’s historic areas, the museum gift shop, and outside vendors like Samson Historical. When not at Conner Prairie, she’s usually in rehearsal for or performing in a play. 

Nova Harmon
Nova Harmon considers herself an experimental artist. Exploring different art practices with a variety of mediums, she is always trying to expand her skill set to include new things.  

Nova started exploring art in high school, jumping from photography to drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, jewelry making, and most prominently, ceramics. Now her art practice is composed mostly of pottery, woodworking, blacksmithing, sewing, drawing, and just about anything else she can get her hands on.

Nova started college at IU-Indianapolis as an art education major but ended up double majoring in sculpture and ceramics to hopefully one day become an art professor. Her thesis show included a variety of hand-built and wheel-thrown pieces paired with soft sculptures and mixed media installations. 

Nova’s passion for art and the process has led her to want to share her skills with others. “I’ve always loved creating things and helping others explore their ideas. Being able to brainstorm big projects with my peers and help come up with new and creative ways to do things is what has driven me to where I am and untimely what has inspired me to want to teach.

“What truly makes me excited about art is collaboration between artists and I believe I can learn just as much from those I’m teaching as students can learn from me.”