Whether you’re new to the wheel or have years of experience, this class is designed to elevate your pottery throwing skills. Each session begins with a brief demonstration, followed by hands-on instruction tailored to naturally advance your abilities toward your personal goals. For advanced students, the projects are open-ended, allowing for creative exploration, while beginners will receive one-on-one guidance to successfully craft chosen objects like cups, bowls, planters, and more. We’ll examine wedging, throwing, trimming, altering, and surface treatment in depth to ensure you develop a well-rounded skill set.

A beginner-friendly session, where you’ll learn handbuilding skills to craft a decorative or functional object. Clay Dates are open to solos, duos or friend groups and include a demo, clay, glaze, firing, and plenty of lasting memories for.

Pieces are glazed, fired and ready for pick up in 3-6 weeks. Shipping is available for our visiting attendees for $15 plus shipping costs. Bring friends and enjoy a group discount on additional tickets!

$15 off any 3 Clay Dates. Location: Ilwaco Artworks

n this workshop students will create detailed and colorful bowls by layering underglazes and freehand newsprint stencils. 

We will spend the first day of this workshop creating large bowls that will serve as canvases for the color work on day two. 

On the second day, once the bowls have firmed up, we will explore color layering and freehand newsprint stenciling. By applying underglaze under and over our stencils, we all create a harmonized composition of sharp lines, patterns, organic overlays, and fascinating colors.This technique allows for detailed designs and adds depth in your piece.

In this hands-on class, you’ll explore alternative firing methods in a communal kiln firing setting such as Horsehair and Obvara.

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Option one $40: Pick up 2lbs of raku clay at the studio any time after purchase and build your pieces at home. Drop your work off at the studio to be bisque-fired by 12/7. Then, join us for the raku fire, 12/21, where we will glaze and fire your pieces and they will be ready to take home that day. Basic tools kits are also for sale in the studio.

Option two $60: Join us on 12/21 and choose from pre-made, bisqued pieces to be glazed and fired and taken home that day!

Horse Hair Raku is a pottery technique that involves applying strands of horsehair to hot ceramic surfaces. As these materials burn, they leave intricate smoke patterns and carbon trails, which become permanent decorative marks on the piece once it cools.

Obvara—also known as “Baltic Raku”—is a little known Eastern European technique in which pottery, fresh from the kiln, is quickly submerged into a fermented mixture of water, sugar, and yeast. This process results in organic, black-and-white surface patterns and pigmentation that are completely unique, and is completed in under an hour.

American Raku is a contemporary take on the traditional Japanese method. In this process, works are removed from the kiln at peak heat, where rapid oxidation or combustible reduction produces dramatic surface effects on the clay and glaze. The results, uniquely colored by fire and smoke, are ready to handle in less than an hour. While pre-made ceramic vessels are provided by Ilwaco Artworks, students are encouraged to create their own pieces.

Create with clay for the day at our community clay studio, Ilwaco Artworks!

A beginner-friendly session, where you’ll learn handbuilding skills to craft a decorative or functional object. Clay Dates are open to solos, duos or friend groups and include a demo, clay, glaze, firing, and plenty of lasting memories for.

Pieces are glazed, fired and ready for pick up in 3-6 weeks. Shipping is available for our visiting attendees for $15 plus shipping costs. Bring friends and enjoy a group discount on additional tickets!

$15 off any 3 Clay Dates. Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Create with clay for the day at our community clay studio, Ilwaco Artworks!