Welcome to the Fired Arts Workshop site. We are delighted you came to visit.  We are planning our Fresno Event for July 20, 21, 22 and 23, 2011 to be held at St Paul Armenian Church in Fresno California.  Yes, we will be returning to Fresno and currently all of the educators from last year along with Tony Tanner are planning to teach again.  A few surprises are in the works to make this event even more exciting and educationally challenging to all of you.

This year each instructor will have seven teaching periods and it will be their choice to run their classes once or twice.  The average class size is around ten students (sometime a few more and sometimes less) so you know you will get plenty of help.  All of our instructors are professional and have taught for years.  We have a total of over one hundred-fifty years teaching experience between us.  So do not be afraid of trying some new medias and techniques.

We are currently looking at a couple of additional venues to offer more events in other parts of the country.  So please return to our site often, to see if we will be teaching in your area!
While you are visiting let us explain how our events work.  We are basically an independent group of fired arts educators, that travel teach, write articles and help promote fired arts education.  We are all friends and enjoy working together.  Our goal is to bring you terrific pieces that you can complete in a three to four hour class.  The projects are varied and all pieces fit into the fired arts category.  We work with low-fire earthen ware, high-fire stoneware, warm glass, China paints, porcelain and moist clay.

Since we are no longer affiliated with any particular group, we can help you save money.  We do not charge any type of registration fee to come to the event and take classes.  We also use raffle income to pay expenses and any small profit from lunch and our dinner goes toward the hall and administration cost.  By doing this we can keep our class fees low.

We do serve a hot lunch for three of the days and you can order in advance when you register.  Our goal is to post the menus on the sight.  We have a wonderful relaxing dinner at David Hoff’s home.  We have a raffle of art pieces completed by the instructors.  Dinner is prepared by the instructors and they host the evening.  This past dinner Larry Duncan and his wife Sharon joined in on the fun and good food.  The price of this evening is $15.00 with a full Bar-B Q style meal including soft drink, beer and wine.

So when planning your summer time Fired Arts Education activities, remember, all roads lead to Fresno CA.  Come play, come learn, come eat and above all else, meet some great new friends and educators.  With our venue class space is limited, so it’s best to sign up early.

We hope to have the projects and the schedule posted for your viewing and ordering by the 15th of January (if not before).  All of us are looking forward to serving you.

Michael Harbridge
Paula McCoy
Marchelle Burnham
David Hoff
Tony Tanner
Vickie Recchia
Arlene Smith
Michele Zulim