PHOTO GALLERY: Peg Craig offers ceramics classes at Squarepeg Art Studio

October 15, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT

Peg Craig dabbled in art during high school, but didn't pick it up again until 20 years later. Now, Craig holds ceramics classes in her basement studio, Squarepeg.

Peg Craig leads a ceramics class at her studio Squarepeg Art Studio on Sept. 19. This is the first weekly class of a six-week session. Craig teaches classes at the Columbia Area Career Center and started teaching at her studio in her basement about a year ago. | Emma Kessinger

John Northrup works on shaping a bowl during a ceramics class at Squarepeg Art Studio. After the fifth week of class, the clay objects will be fired, glazed and then fired again. | Emma Kessinger

Peg Craig jokes with her ceramics class at her Squarepeg Art Studio. Craig has been doing ceramics for about 10 years. "I love being able to have classes and being able to share with people," Craig said. | Emma Kessinger

Coasters lay on a shelf in Peg Craig's Squarepeg Art Studio. Craig makes everything, from flower vases to xylophones, out of clay. She has two kilns in her basement that she uses to fire the clay objects. | Emma Kessinger

John Northrup works on a bowl during a ceramics class at Squarepeg Art Studio. Peg Craig teaches the six-person class in her basement studio. "I like the hominess of this," Northrup said about the small class size.

| Emma Kessinger