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Vanessa Hartman

Crafting Creatures

April 1, 2025
Open to All Skill Levels
Clay

Overview

Step into Spring by crafting creatures from nature and your imagination in this fun one-night class! Using handbuilding techniques and reference to the natural world, students (ages 7-9) will explore expression and nonverbal communication to form their creatures. By exploring these expressions with their hands, students will develop a new relationship with the world around them. Arrowmont staff will kiln fire all pieces. Students will be notified about pick up at a later date, or shipping is available through the Supply Store.

This class is underwritten by the Fleur Bresler Scholarship Endowment, allowing us to deduct $65 from the cost of attendance for all youth participants.

While it is Arrowmont's policy to background check all instructors that teach our wonderful kid workshops, we want to ensure that all children are safe from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave. We have an extra safety step for our children’s programming and ask that all parents/guardians enrolling a child list create the registration form using their contact information as the primary contact. In addition, the form allows you to list another adult that has clearance to drop-off and pick-up your child. In the event, the adult completing the form is not available, the adult under drop-off/pick-up will be required to sign your child in and out before and after class time.  

 For youth, ages 16-18, who may be driving themselves to campus, please fill out the form as requested above. List the youth driving themselves as the drop-off/pick-up alt. No kids under 16 will be allowed to check themselves out, likewise if the kid does not have a license yet, they must get checked in and out by an adult. 

Course Fee : $10.00

Workshop Details

  • Class runs 5:30PM-8:30PM
  • All materials are included in the cost of workshop
  • Light refreshments provided

Demographics

  • Youth workshop
  • Open to ages 7-9

Important Details

  • Parents are required to provide drop-off/pick-up information
  • Check-in opens 30 min prior to workshop start-time

Scholarships & Material Fees

Need help covering workshop costs? Arrowmont offers financial aid opportunities to broaden access to our arts and craft programs. We believe a diverse community enriches the learning experience for all.

Material fees are not included in our national workshop costs, but are included with the cost of our winter short workshops. A material list with estimated costs will be emailed about 30 days before the national workshop begins.

Cost Breakdown

Registration Fee
$10.00
Kids Short Shop
$10.00
Estimated Cost*
*Fees exclude housing and meal plans
$20.00
Vanessa Hartman
Artist Bio
Vanessa Hartman
Vanessa Hartman is a ceramic artist and teacher in the Knoxville Community. After receiving her BA in studio art at Florida State University, she moved to Tennessee where she studied and worked at Arrowmont in 2017. Hartman’s art translates her observations into new forms which act as vessels of stored energy, conversations in nonverbal communication, and characters in a mythology of their own.

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