Handbuilding Cups
with Sunshine Cobb
Course Description
Learn from Sunshine Cobb how to handbuild cups with soft slabs and coils as well as her techniques for making and attaching handles. Content includes three demonstration videos, a tool list, project worksheet and suggestions for further application.
Handbuilding Cups: coils
Learn how to build a coilbuilt cup and techniques for finishing the rim of a handbuilt cup.
Handbuilding Cups: soft slabs
Learn how to make cups with soft clay slabs and breathe life into your artwork with handmade texture tools.
Handbuilding Cups: handles
Find out how to make handles that are just as enjoyable to hold as they are to make and how you can apply everything you have learned to other forms.
Sunshine Cobb is a full-time studio artist who specializes in handmade functional pottery. She frequently travels the country as an invited lecturing and demonstrating artist. Her work has drawn both critical praise for its whimsical rustic style and national and international commercial success. Utilizing traditional techniques, her work embodies the importance of handmade pottery in an era of disposability while representing a new model of a functional potter in the modern era. Educated at California State University of Sacramento with a BA in Studio Arts and an MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University, Sunshine is the recipient of several esteemed honors in the field including serving as a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT from 2012-2014 and named as 2013’s Emerging Artist by both the National Council of Education and Ceramics Monthly. Sunshine also recently authored the book “Mastering Hand Building: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Slabs, Coil and More”(Voyageur Press, Feb 2018).
