SPPS Community Education offers a variety of classes designed for adults with developmental disabilities to explore interests, meet with peers, have fun and learn new skills!
School Age Child Care
Where families learn & grow together.
1/2 Day Nature-based Pre-K
Receive expert instruction in throwing pieces using an electric wheel. Hand building is also covered at Harding High School. Clay and glazes will be used. All supplies included in fee.
Please note: All work must be done at class during designated class hours; projects worked on elsewhere or with other materials cannot be stored on-site or fired in our kilns.
Tom received his BA in Art in 1989, his teaching certificate in 1993, and has been teaching art, primarily ceramics, at Harding High School since 1995. He taught ceramics for Community Education at Harding for about 10 years before taking a hiatus. Now with a new, improved ceramics room at Harding he accommodate an adult class once more! Tom enjoys teaching to all levels, has tons of ideas and can make just about anything out of clay.
Annette Huot-Link is an established potter and ceramics instructor in St. Paul. She received her BA in Theater and Spanish from the College of St. Benedict where she assisted master potter Richard Bresnahan. She then studied at the Northern Clay Center and later apprenticed under master potter Bob Eckels in Bayfield, WI. She aims to cultivate creativity and joy in her classes.
Mark received his BSED in Art Education from Northern Illinois University but didn't begin his work in clay until later in life when he discovered a ceramics class in Minneapolis. He seized this lifelong learning opportunity and delved into the rich ceramic culture of the Twin cities. After several years he began teaching with Saint Paul Community Ed.
Jeremy Jones is originally from Casper, WY and received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Wyoming in 2006 and an MFA in sculpture from Wichita State University in 2012. He creates toy-like sculptures and assemblages that seek to enshrine the everyday moments of child rearing/parenthood. Jones has had reviews in The Nashville Scene, Nashville Arts Magazine and Peripheral ARTeries Contemporary Art Review and exhibited his work throughout the greater United States including: Space 204 at Vanderbilt University, The Nicolaysen Art Museum and the Macy Gallery at Columbia University. Jones is the ceramics instructor at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN
Mark Johnson
Full - waiting list
Tom Cook
Annette Huot-Link
No Class Jan 20 & Feb 17
Jeremy Jones