Clay Handbuilding Workshop

Saturday, Sept 28th (pickup TBD)9am - 11am (EST)Registration is limited to 15 Join us for a Saturday morning clay handbuilding workshop with our dear friend and Ojai-based ceramicist Hilary Walsh.  This beginner-friendly class will explore handbuilding to create spice dishes, salt cellars, jewelry catchalls and decorative objet using coiling, pinching, and slab techniques. These methods are essential to form-making and remain the same as those used by early peoples to create primitive forms of pottery found all across Mezo, African, Hellenic, and Middle Eastern cultures. Participants will create 1-3 pieces, depending on complexity, in their choice of black clay or reddish brown terracotta. Completed pieces will be fired off-site with no glazing and available for pickup the week of 10/1. Participants may also have their pieces mailed at request.- - -Informed by an interest in raw materials, ancestral forms, the female figure, and birds, Hilary Walsh uses ceramics and sculpture to creat