After-School Pottery Workshops

New for 2024, we're adding after-school, weekly workshops! 

With new themes each month, students can practice and improve their pottery skills with different functional pottery projects every month. And because all after-school workshops are all-abilities, students can  jump in for the first time, any month.  

Workshops meet on the same day of the week for a month, from 3:30pm-5:15pm at Terracotta Pullman.

Here's what's happening at Terracotta for our kids and tweens, Spring 2024:

January:

Thursday series: Fairy Garden and Gnome Home

February:

Thursday series: Bird Houses, baths and feeders 

March:

Thursdays series: Mushroom planters and flowerpot huggers 

April:

Mondays series: Mothers and Fathers Day Desk Sets 

Thursdays series: Create a kitchen windowsill garden!

May:

Thursday series: Everything Flowers! Vases, Mugs, garden stakes and flower frogs 

To ensure our artists have the best time, we strive to seat our young artists in peer groups. Ages 10+, please. 

 

More details about specific workshop series:

January: Fairy Garden and Gnome Home Series 

Thursdays

Jan. 11, 18, 25, Feb. 1

 3:30-5:15pm

 Create two planters, and miniature homes for mythical creatures! Then when finished, pick out and plant a starter plant down the street at Modern Plantsman , included!

  In this workshop, kids will learn beginning sculpting skills, including slabbing, coil-building, pinch pots and sculpture. Each week, kids will build on the skills they learned the week before with the next project, practicing and applying their new knowledge while making a series of functional and miniature pottery.

 When assembled, the pottery will create a gnome or fairy garden…or two.

 Jan 11: Gnomes, Frogs and Toadstools

Jan. 18: Planters and Gnome Homes, Fairy Houses

Jan. 25: Glazing and any re-making needed

Feb. 1: Assembly and picking out and planting the baby plant

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 February: Love Bird Series

Thursdays

Feb. 8, 15, 22, 29

3:30-5:15pm

 Create a series of functional pottery for our feathered friends!

  In this workshop, kids will practice beginning sculpting skills, including slabbing, coil-building, pinch pots and sculpture. Each week, kids will build on the skills they learned the week before with the next project, practicing and applying their new knowledge while making a series of functional pottery.

 When assembled, the pottery will create a coordinating set of everything your favorite song bird, or squirrel, needs—a house, feeder and bath! 

 Feb. 8: Slabbed and stone-formed Bird Baths

Feb. 15: Bird Houses

Feb. 22:  Bird Feeders

Feb. 29 : Glazing and any re-making needed

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March: Mushroom Planters Series

Thursdays

March 7, 14, 21, 28

3:30-5:15pm

 Create a series of mushroom-inspired, functional pottery! Then when finished, pick out and plant a starter plant down the street at Modern Plantsman, included!

  In this workshop, kids will learn beginning sculpting skills, including slabbing, coil-building, pinch pots and sculpture. Each week, kids will build on the skills they learned the week before with the next project, practicing and applying their new knowledge while making a series of functional pottery.

 March 7: Mushroom Planters

March 14: Flower pot huggers (sculptures that hang on the side)

March 21: Glazing and any re-making needed

March 28:  Glazing any re-made pottery, assembly, and picking out and planting the baby plant at Modern Plantsman!

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April: Mothers Day and Fathers Day Gift Sets! 

Mondays

3:30pm-5:15pm

April 1, 15, 22, 29

Potters of all ages will create a unique, funky and functional desk set that sparks joy and conversations, just in time to gift for Mothers Day and Fathers Day! Potters will already create a candle vessel and select and pour a candle of their choice into it on the last day of class.

 Using our studio slab roller and selection of hundreds of textures, potters will select a theme and incorporate it into one-of-a-kind, personalized pottery pieces like:

 April 1: Business Card Holders and paperclip dishes

April 15: Candle vessels and pen holders

April 22: Phone Holders and glazing the candle vessels.

April 29: Glazing the rest of the pottery and taking the candle vessels to The Gathering Place to select and pour a candle into, included! 

 Potters will receive enough clay and materials to make at least two of each type of project, so they can select their favorites to finish, or complete multiples as gifts.

 Pottery and candles will be ready to take home Monday, May 6, just in time for Mothers Day!

 

April: Create a windowsill garden set!

Thursdays

April 4, 18, 25

3:30-5:15pm

  In this workshop, kids will learn and practice beginning pottery skills, including slabbing, coil-building, pinch pots and sculpture while they create three planters, a set of garden stakes and a handful of gnomes.  Each week, kids will build on the skills they learned the week before with the next project, practicing and applying their new knowledge while making a series of functional pottery.

Thursdays

April 4: Windowsill Herb Garden Planters

*No workshop April 11*

April 18: Garden Stakes to label seedlings and gnomes for good luck

April 25: Glazing and re-making anything needed

 Pottery created in this class will be ready to add soil and seeds and take home May 2.

 

May:Everything Flowers

Thursdays

May 2, 9, 16, 23

3:30-5pm

 In this workshop, kids and tweens will learn and practice beginner-friendly pottery projects, using local flowers and leaves to create nature-inspired, functional pottery. When complete, students will have a table set of pottery ready for enjoying and displaying spring flowers!

May 2: Vases with floral imprints 

May 9: Mugs with floral and leaf imprints

May 16: Garden Stakes to label seedlings and flower frogs to arrange bouquets

May 23: Glazing pottery, re-making anything in need

 Pottery is finished and ready to pick up May 29.