Brice teaches ceramics with a focus on hand building techniques, emphasizing the expressive possibilities of clay beyond the pottery wheel. Brice brings an open teaching style that encourages students to explore and find their own creative paths in ceramics. Inspired by everyday experiences and the vibrant atmosphere of Los Angeles, Brice creates a learning environment where students can discover the cathartic and transformative qualities of working with clay.
I teach ceramics with a focus on hand building
Most people who haven’t worked with clay, including myself in the beginning , hear ceramicsand think of the “wheel” and how incredibly hard it must be to learn how to throw. However, ceramics has many other techniques and building methods that don’t require learning the wheel. I have found a lot of both comfort and inspiration in hand building and creating objects this way. I want to allow others to see the capabilities of just using their hands to make something beautiful. Seeing others find themselves through the medium of clay is a rewarding and joyous process and I look forward to seeing how each student will react to the clay and how the clay will react to them. Ceramics has a rich history that lends itself to people allover the world and gives a very cathartic and hypnotic experience when working with it that I hope to share.
I studied photography at Otis College and obtained my BFA in 2019. I wanted to learn every aspect there was to photography including working in the dark room, printing images, building frames and mounting on different materials. I had the chance to take new electives during school and decided to take a ceramics class that got me hooked from the first day. The ability to work with different clay bodies, styles of building, glazes, and firing techniques allows me to further my knowledge and continue working with new ideas constantly.
My style of teaching is very open. My own experience in being the student when taught has always brought some sort of anxiety if I wasn’t able to complete the assignment properly. I found that whatever prompt was given always led me to veer off into different worlds or ways of doing things on my own. I hope to allow this natural process of working with ceramics to come across for each student when they work with me. Each medium lends itself to many different tactics on how to use it and I find joy in seeing what the student has within them to bring.
Morning walks, going to the movies, reading at home, seeing friends and getting good food, seeing family and hearing old stories, and sitting in the sun at a nice park. I’m lucky to live in a city like LA that’s filled with things to constantly be inspired by.
