C/O Clay Studio
Saturday Clay Club (a weekly engagement with clay)
Working with clay feels like a fantasy, inaccessible for many of us. At least it was for me. Naturally, when I first got access to work with clay, it felt like a dream came true. Now I have the blessing to live the dream everyday. The idea behind the weekly classes is to give access to this dream world of clay to you, who have been thinking how to start with it. Or may be you are someone who has worked with clay when you were a child and wish you could do that again. The classes are for you if you are busy throughout the week and wishing for a space to spend some time with your own self, or may be looking for to connect with like minded friends.
Clay has an amazing quality to bring you in to the present moment while giving you the support to create from scratch. The journey of turning a lump of distorted clay in a piece, that you can call your own, is an experience to hold for life time. Yet the need of staying or the practice to stay unattached as to remember how fragile the medium is at every stage of the process. Well! Where the process can have many intense moments, the joy of holding an end product in your hand overpowers everything else.
After all who doesn’t love the idea, of drinking tea from the mug he/she made or placing the art piece, beside the work place, made by self.
PS: I started these workshop with the wish to give you the first hand experience of the healing and calming properties of clay, learning to make articles out of clay comes as by product of the process.
Weekly Class/Workshop Structure
-Happens every Saturday from 11 am to 1:30 pm
-Booking is per-session based
-We have limited slots and you can book a slot here
Single day workshop
-The class will start with a icebreaker moment between all the participants.
-The workshop is for someone who is a beginner to someone who has prior experience with the medium.
-As this is a group class, having a mindset of working in a team is very much appreciated.
-Students are encouraged to be present in class on time so that everyone can start working together.
-Each class concentrates on a single hand building technique under my guidance.
-Old/experienced students can save their work to continue working on it during open studio hours.
-students will always be motivated and appreciated to create their own design and be free around their creation than creating something definitive.
-Weekly workshops include only hand building technique and surface decoration techniques.
-Learning glazing is not a part of weekly workshop. A separate class can be arranged for repeated students on demand.
-Students get access to learn wheel after few sessions of hand building.
-If you wish to attend only a single workshop, you can take the article home the same day or you can wait for sometime (minimum three weeks)to collect the finished article.
Repeated Students
If you are someone who has been attending weekly classes for some tim the following points are for you. First of all thank you so much for your repeated visit to the studio and sharing your energy to build this space.
-I guess by now you have started working on wheel already, if not, you have access to do it now.
-You have access to book and avail open studio space to go deeper into techniques that you have already learned.
-Now you also have access to avail a basic glaze application group class to glaze the articles you made.
-You must be confident enough to work independently without my supervision and willing to take care of the space to avail open studio facility.
-I will organize separate workshops like, multiple techniques of Glaze application, learn to load a furnace when a group of regular students are willing to attend.
(Only students with prior access can book a slot)
PS: If you are a beginner and you want to continue as a regular learner, but you are afraid that you don't understand few of the above technical terms. Don't worry, you will learn all the terms eventually during the class.
Classes & Workshops
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