Workshops at Easthampton Clay

Register for Spring Workshops

Our workshops are open to anyone with any level of ceramic experience, from beginners to expert. Join us in the studio for a workshop of your choice and we will finish your piece in a glaze color of your choice to compliment your project. Your finished piece will be available for pick up roughly 4 weeks out from your workshop, and Easthampton Clay will email you when your piece is ready to come home with you.

Please note: anyone under the age of 12 participating in a workshop must be accompanied by an adult.
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  • Spring Bird House Workshop

    Saturday, May 25th | 10AM-12PM
    Our most popular Spring workshop is back! Join us for a fun evening in our studio, where participants will learn to handbuild a functional birdhouse in a style that's unique to them. Explore surface design techniques and traditional handbuilding skills to construct this sweet birdhouse for your back yard, porch or home. Participants will be able to select a glaze color of their choice that we will finish your piece in once fired. All materials are included in the cost of this workshop.

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  • Parent & Child Pottery Workshop

    Saturday, June 8th | 10-11:30AM

    We are so excited to welcome kids and their parents back for the second installment of our parent-child workshop series! Kids and their adults will work independently and collaboratively to handbuild a fun filled clay project under the instruction of their teacher. Registration covers the cost of one child and one parent or guardian. All materials are included in the cost of the workshop, and participants will receive a heads up from Easthampton Clay when their platters are fully fired and ready for pick up. (Ages 6-16, and parents).

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  • DATE NIGHT

    Friday, May 31st | 6-8:30PM
    Join us for the next installment of DATE NIGHTS! Love is in the air at this workshop to share. You and your sweetheart are invited to join us for a fun night in the studio, where participants will work on the potter's wheel to make unique mugs, filled with love. This will be an intimate yet social workshop with 5 couples in total, and we will provide all materials. This workshop is designed for participants of all skill levels and is a fun, unique way to spend date night with your sweetheart. (Ages 18+)

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  • DATE NIGHT (FULL)

    Friday, April 19th | 6-8:30PM

    Join us for the next installment of DATE NIGHTS! Love is in the air at this workshop to share. You and your sweetheart are invited to join us for a fun night in the studio, where participants will work on the potter's wheel to make unique mugs, filled with love. This will be an intimate yet social workshop with 5 couples in total, and we will provide all materials. This workshop is designed for participants of all skill levels and is a fun, unique way to spend date night with your sweetheart. (Ages 18+)

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  • Mother's Day Workshop (FULL)

    Saturday, May 4th | 10AM-12PM
    This workshop makes the perfect Mother’s Day gift or early celebration! Join us for this 2 hour workshop where we’ll be constructing a beautiful flower vase, just in time for Mom’s day. Using handbuilding and surface design techniques, participants will work with handbuilding teacher, celebrated ceramicist and Easthampton Clay owner, Liz Rodriguez, to create unique pieces and lifelong memories. All materials are included with the cost of this workshop and participants will be notified via email when their work is fully fired and ready for pick up.

    Registration for this Mother’s Day workshop will be for 2 individuals; designed for Mom and her child (all ages welcome!) If you’re miles away from Mom this year, this would also make an excellent gift for her and a friend or family member to help make the holiday feel special despite your distance. BYOM (Bring Your Own Mom!)
    (Ages 10+)

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  • Seder Plate Workshop (FULL)

    Friday, April 5, 2024 | 6-8PM
    Join us for this one of a kind Passover Seder plate workshop (inspired by Rebecca Kahan), just in time for Passover. During the seder, we don’t just tell the story of the Exodus, we see, smell, feel, and taste liberation. Using traditional handbuilding techniques, we will create a beautiful heirloom plate for the center of your table. We will provide stencils to help hold the items which symbolize the Passover story. All tools and materials are included in this workshop. You will be able to choose a beautiful glaze of your choice and your work will be ready for pick up in time for Passover!

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  • Handle This! Workshop (FULL)

    Saturday, April 6 | 10AM-12PM

    Looking to get a handle on handles? This workshop is for you! In this workshop we take a deep dive into handle making. Participants will learn the proper way to securely attach handles, how to make handles uniquely your own, and we will explore the ergonomics and consider important functional aspects of a good handle. We will also show you some of our favorite handles! This workshop is designed for beginner to advanced potters who are familiar with their own ceramic practice and are looking for skill growth with their own handle practice. Please note that we will not be producing or firing any completed pieces in this workshop; this is strictly a skill building opportunity for those who are looking to advance their form. All materials will be provided with the cost of this workshop and participants are welcome to take home and/or repurpose their handles/clay at the end of this workshop.

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Previous Workshops at Easthampton Clay

  • 2 Part Mindfulness on the Wheel Workshop: March 9th & 23rd

    Saturday, March 9 & 23 | 4-6PM
    The concept of “centering” is a crucial foundation of both pottery wheelthrowing and mindfulness practice. In this class students will gain basic knowledge of wheelthrowing technique while utilizing that lens as a means of better applying principles of mindfulness in their daily lives.

    During the two-part Mindfulness and Wheelthrowing workshop, students will be introduced to the technical aspects of wheelthrowing, utilizing the basic principles of mindfulness to develop a healthy throwing practice.

    Students will learn how to center clay, utilize the wheel and clay tools and make basic ceramic forms. While learning these techniques, students will also be provided instruction on creating a mindfulness toolkit that can be adapted to their lives both in and out of the clay studio.

    Instructor Michael Medeiros is an artist and writer living in western Massachusetts. Certified to teach the eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course through Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is currently completing an MFA in Studio Art there. His ceramics business, Poesia Pottery, focuses on gardenwares, community-centered public art and mindfulness-based teaching through clay.

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  • Luminary Making Workshop: Fundraiser for the Children's Advocacy Center of Hampshire County

    February 9th | 6-8PM

    Join us for an evening of light! Participants will be hand building a unique ceramic luminary that is sure to brighten your home this winter.

    A portion of proceeds from this workshop will be donated to the Children's Advocacy Center of Hampshire County, an organization dear to Easthampton Clay's heart that services children and families in need of therapeutic healing. All materials are included in the cost of the workshop, and EHC will inform participants when their work is fired and ready for pickup.

  • 2 Part Stamp & Mug Making Workshop (FULL)

    January 13 & 27 | 10AM-12:30PM
    Join us for this one of a kind, two-part stamp making workshop! Participants will learn all of the steps required to make unique stamps from scratch, and put them to use while creating a beautiful handbuilt mug! January 13th will cover the creation of your stamps using greenware clay. On January 27th participants return to hand build mugs and to apply their finished stamps to their creations. All materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

    Workshop stamps inspired by Canadian artist Sarah Pike and will be instructed by Easthampton Clay member Lisa Cappello.

  • DATE NIGHT

    February 16th | 6-8:30PM
    Introducing DATE NIGHTS at Easthampton Clay! Love is in the air at this workshop to share. You and your sweetheart are invited to join us for a fun night in the studio, where participants will work on the potter's wheel to make 'love mugs'. This will be a social workshop with 5 couples in total, and we will provide all materials as well as chocolate covered strawberries and something bubbly for you and your partner to share.

    (Ages 18+)

    This workshop would be a great Valentines Day gift or fun night out!

  • Parent & Child Pottery Workshop (FULL)

    February 24th | 10-11:30AM
    We are so excited to welcome kids and their parents to our studio for the first of our parent-child workshop series! Kids and their adults will work independently and collaboratively to handbuild a fun filled clay project under the instruction of their teacher. Registration covers the cost of one child and one parent or guardian. All materials are included in the cost of the workshop, and participants will receive a heads up from Easthampton Clay when their platters are fully fired and ready for pick up.

    (Ages 6-16, and parents).

  • 2 Part Surface Design Workshop (FULL)

    March 15 & 29th | 5:30-8:30PM
    CURRENT EASTHAMPTON CLAY STUDENTS & MEMBERS ONLY: EHC community members are invited to join Kayla McFarland (of Cultivation Clay) for a special 2 part surface design series. Participants will explore foundational and advanced techniques, from slip trailing to water etching, sgraffito carving, wax resist, various glaze methods and more. On March 15th students will work with wet/green clay before returning for bisque design on March 29th. All tile materials are included in the cost of the workshop.

  • DATE NIGHT (FULL)

    March 22nd | 6-8:30PM

    Introducing DATE NIGHTS at Easthampton Clay! Love is in the air at this workshop to share. You and your sweetheart are invited to join us for a fun night in the studio, where participants will work on the potter's wheel to make 'love mugs'. This will be a social workshop with 5 couples in total, and we will provide all materials as well as chocolate covered strawberries and something bubbly for you and your partner to share.

    (Ages 18+)