Ceramic Workshops In Monterey - Spring 2024

I’m excited to announce the ceramic workshop dates for March and April. Join me at the studio just 2 blocks from the beach in Monterey, California this spring and make a project! Group ceramic workshops are limited to just 4 students for clay topics and 6 students for painting sessions, ensuring you’ll get lots of attention to help you execute your ideas. See the workshop lineup on my Upcoming Workshops page.

The clay workshops on offer are Intro to Handbuilding, Make a Mug, Make a Vase, and Make Seashell Dishes. The decorating workshops on offer are 2 Easter Egg Painting session, painted ceramic magnets, and painted wall hanging.

If you’re looking for something special, I’m now offering a Private Workshops for 2! These sessions are great for special occasions with your date or friend. I’ll teach you one of my clay workshop topics but it will be scheduled just for you. Please get in touch if you have questions about schedule availability.

And coming soon in early summer: a 1 day floral underglaze painting intensive! Intended for folks who already work with clay and want to learn my techniques for floral painting. I’m still ironing out the details, but if you’d like to be notified when more information is available, just checkout with the free listing and I’ll put you on my email list.

A big announcement...

After 14 years of cramming my small business activities into any available corner in whatever 1 bedroom apartment rental I was residing in, I finally have a REAL SPACE! Space to create, space to ship, space to sell, space to store inventory and supplies, and most excitingly - space to teach! I’ve had a dream of being able to welcome people into my studio and share the joy of making things and it feels crazy that it’s finally going to be a reality!

My new studio is located in Monterey, just a couple blocks away from Cannery Row and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It will include a retail area, workshop zone, and my studio. If you’re local or in town visiting on vacation, I hope that you’ll be able to come by and visit, or maybe even take a workshop sometime!

I have a lot of work to do to get it up and running, some of which I imagine will take me a few months. Paint, signage, lighting, furniture, display, electrical and venting for the kiln. My goal is to get it up and running as a functioning studio and then add in elements for the workshop component. My to-do list is long! :)

This is a big project that I’m funding with my small savings and ceramic sales income. If you’ve purchased something from me in the past two years - thank you! Your order is helping to fund this space! That said, I’ll be raising more money to help pay for things like light fixtures, paint, workshop chairs, window treatments, an alarm system, etc… (all those things you don’t think about until you need to!). I think I’ll have an instagram story sale at some point to sell some seconds and one-offs. I’m also adding a donate button to my site if you’d like to send a couple bucks my way - even a few dollars to buy me an iced coffee while I paint my day away would be so appreciated! Larger donations of $75 or more will get a special ceramic ornament from me as a thank you gift that I will make and ship after I get the studio up and running. Click here for the donation link.

I’m planning on sharing lots of the process of getting this space up and running. Follow along on instagram, my newsletter, or here on the blog to see how things are progressing. I know I love watching spaces come together and I hope you enjoy it, too.

My time at Arrowmont

Wayyy back in January 2020, I signed up for a pottery workshop at Arrowmont, an Art and Craft School in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. I was so excited for an adventure and to get to meet some new folks and see a new place. Well, we all know what unfolded that spring…so, fast forward to last week and I FINALLY got to make my trip a reality!

I stayed at Arrowmont for almost a week where I got to play with clay all day and learn from the very knowledgeable and generous Kip O’Krongly. We learned about different surface decoration techniques and experimented with all sorts of tools and materials. What a gift to get to focus on your craft and have everything else taken care of! There were a few late nights in the studio trying to make sure to finish things in time to be ready for the kilns. After a quick single firing, all of our work came out nice and toasty on Friday morning.

My visit to Tennessee coincided with the stunning fall color show of their deciduous forest. I even got to take a chilly hike into the National Park!

I had such a wonderful time at Arrowmont! I’m already thinking about when I can go back. :) They host workshops for all sorts of media - get on their email list to find out about their next offerings.

Inspired by California

Lucia Mug in Matte Yellow - Available on 11/17/21

Hello! I’m firing up this blog as a place to share some of my process and inspiration. If you follow me from the olden days, you’ll know I used to be an avid DIY and Craft blogger. My work has shifted around since then but I still really miss getting to share in a longer format (longer than an instagram caption!). I’m hoping to use this page to document a bit more of the behind the scenes of my work and share works of others as well. Thanks for being here!