Every session is structured around making something complete. Your kit arrives. Your instructor meets you live. The group stays small enough that feedback is personal.
You have never worked with clay before, or your experience is minimal. These sessions start from the beginning and move at a pace that lets technique settle before moving forward.
The pinch method is where hand-building begins. This session covers how to center a ball of clay in your hands, open it, and shape the walls evenly. You create two small vessels using only your thumbs and fingers.
Coil building is one of the oldest ceramic techniques. You roll uniform coils and stack them to build upward, learning how to blend joins and control the shape as you go. A slightly longer session to give the technique time.
You have made things with clay before and want to push further. These sessions assume basic familiarity and focus on refining technique, working with more complex forms, and understanding surface decoration.
Slab work lets you make flat-sided, architectural forms. This session covers rolling consistent slabs, cutting clean angles, and joining edges without cracking. The projects are designed to show how slab technique opens up a different range of forms.
What you do to the surface of a piece changes everything about how it reads. This session covers carving, stamping, and slip trailing on leather-hard clay. Both projects are pre-formed in the kit so the full session focuses on surface work.
Contact us with your preferred session and we confirm your spot. We need your shipping address so the kit reaches you in time.
Your clay kit is packed and shipped so it arrives a few days before your session. Open it, review the reference cards, and set up your workspace.
Log in at class time using the link we provide. Your camera and microphone let the instructor see your work and speak to you directly during the session.
The session runs in real time. The instructor demonstrates, you follow, and when something needs adjustment they tell you specifically what to do differently.
By the end of the session you have completed both pieces. They need to dry and cure, but the making is done. Two finished works from one afternoon.
Each kit is assembled specifically for the session you have registered for. The tools and clay type vary by technique, so a coil-building kit and a slab-building kit contain different things.
Enough for both complete projects. Selected for the hand-building technique used in that session.
The specific tools the instructor will reference during the session. Nothing extra, nothing missing.
Technique steps and visual guides you can prop up beside you during the session without looking at a screen.
Pre-made slip for joining and surface work. Some kits include texture stamps or carving tools specific to that session.
Send us a message describing your experience with clay (or lack of it) and we can point you toward the session that fits. There is no wrong starting point.
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