[Touchstone1972]

From August 6 to 10 regional pottery icon Valda Cox teaches the weeklong workshop Wheel-Thrown Pottery at Touchstone Center for Crafts. Tuition is $495 for the week. All Levels are invited for this weeklong workshop amid the natural splendor of the Laurel Highlands. NCECA and Pottery Council members receive 5% off tuition, and Touchstone is offering 15% discount on lodging options for Summer and Fall workshop. Cost effective creativity! Perfect your throwing skills with Valda Cox. Using both porcelain and stonewareclays, you will be encouraged to develop your own style. Get involved in glaze mixing, and learn the process and ceremony of firing both electric and gas kilns. Click the workshop title to sign up!

Valda Cox has been a professional potter for more than 30 years. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, and a founding member of Penn Avenue Pottery in Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Valda’s distinguished service and dedicated following of students are legendary--and in 2004 she was named Touchstone’s Artist of the Year.