Carve Your Own Serving Dish with Ros
Overview
Friday, 12/12, 6-8pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $50 + $5 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Looking for a fun, creative night out? Join us for this 2-hour workshop where you’ll carve your own one-of-a-kind serving dish out of clay! We’ll explore kurinuki, a traditional Japanese technique where you hollow out a solid block of clay to shape your piece. It’s all about texture, character, and embracing the beauty of imperfections—also known as wabi-sabi.
No experience needed—just come ready to play with clay! At the end of class, you’ll choose a glaze, and we’ll fire your piece for you to pick up a few weeks later. Bring a friend, a date, or just your creative self and enjoy a relaxed night of muddy hands and good vibes.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Thank you so much for offering this class. Ros meets you where you are. She is so supportive and creates a positive classroom setting. I can’t recommend it enough.” - Jeanne Horst
About the Instructor
Ros O’Brien is an artist and studio potter who makes nature-inspired pottery from her home studio in Harrisonburg, VA. She works primarily with textured soft slabs, although her work sometimes incorporates thrown, pinched, or coiled components. Ros is endlessly curious, and has studied a diverse range of ceramic techniques with artists and potters around the globe, including Gail Kendall, Lauren Karle, Bill Griffith, and Ellen Shankin, and she was in the 2020 cohort of Naomi Clement’s Finding Your Voice Mentorship Program. Ros loves teaching, from beginner to advanced handbuilding. She loves to see people come together and learn about each other and themselves through clay, and enjoys the creative and unique ways her students come up with to use classic techniques. She is an instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and the owner of Friendly City Clay & Art Center in Harrisonburg, VA, where she teaches handbuilding.
Class Cancellations and Absence
Refunds minus a 10% or $20 processing fee (whichever is lower) are offered until 14 days before the start of class. After that, we do not offer refunds. We don’t offer refunds for missed classes, so please be sure you can attend all sessions of a class, or that you are okay with missing any that you’ll be away for. You can find out more on our studio policies page.
Overview
Friday, 12/12, 6-8pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $50 + $5 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Looking for a fun, creative night out? Join us for this 2-hour workshop where you’ll carve your own one-of-a-kind serving dish out of clay! We’ll explore kurinuki, a traditional Japanese technique where you hollow out a solid block of clay to shape your piece. It’s all about texture, character, and embracing the beauty of imperfections—also known as wabi-sabi.
No experience needed—just come ready to play with clay! At the end of class, you’ll choose a glaze, and we’ll fire your piece for you to pick up a few weeks later. Bring a friend, a date, or just your creative self and enjoy a relaxed night of muddy hands and good vibes.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Thank you so much for offering this class. Ros meets you where you are. She is so supportive and creates a positive classroom setting. I can’t recommend it enough.” - Jeanne Horst
About the Instructor
Ros O’Brien is an artist and studio potter who makes nature-inspired pottery from her home studio in Harrisonburg, VA. She works primarily with textured soft slabs, although her work sometimes incorporates thrown, pinched, or coiled components. Ros is endlessly curious, and has studied a diverse range of ceramic techniques with artists and potters around the globe, including Gail Kendall, Lauren Karle, Bill Griffith, and Ellen Shankin, and she was in the 2020 cohort of Naomi Clement’s Finding Your Voice Mentorship Program. Ros loves teaching, from beginner to advanced handbuilding. She loves to see people come together and learn about each other and themselves through clay, and enjoys the creative and unique ways her students come up with to use classic techniques. She is an instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and the owner of Friendly City Clay & Art Center in Harrisonburg, VA, where she teaches handbuilding.
Class Cancellations and Absence
Refunds minus a 10% or $20 processing fee (whichever is lower) are offered until 14 days before the start of class. After that, we do not offer refunds. We don’t offer refunds for missed classes, so please be sure you can attend all sessions of a class, or that you are okay with missing any that you’ll be away for. You can find out more on our studio policies page.
Overview
Friday, 12/12, 6-8pm
Ages 16 and up are welcome
Cost: $50 + $5 materials
Beginners and returners welcome!
Looking for a fun, creative night out? Join us for this 2-hour workshop where you’ll carve your own one-of-a-kind serving dish out of clay! We’ll explore kurinuki, a traditional Japanese technique where you hollow out a solid block of clay to shape your piece. It’s all about texture, character, and embracing the beauty of imperfections—also known as wabi-sabi.
No experience needed—just come ready to play with clay! At the end of class, you’ll choose a glaze, and we’ll fire your piece for you to pick up a few weeks later. Bring a friend, a date, or just your creative self and enjoy a relaxed night of muddy hands and good vibes.
What students are saying about this teacher:
“Thank you so much for offering this class. Ros meets you where you are. She is so supportive and creates a positive classroom setting. I can’t recommend it enough.” - Jeanne Horst
About the Instructor
Ros O’Brien is an artist and studio potter who makes nature-inspired pottery from her home studio in Harrisonburg, VA. She works primarily with textured soft slabs, although her work sometimes incorporates thrown, pinched, or coiled components. Ros is endlessly curious, and has studied a diverse range of ceramic techniques with artists and potters around the globe, including Gail Kendall, Lauren Karle, Bill Griffith, and Ellen Shankin, and she was in the 2020 cohort of Naomi Clement’s Finding Your Voice Mentorship Program. Ros loves teaching, from beginner to advanced handbuilding. She loves to see people come together and learn about each other and themselves through clay, and enjoys the creative and unique ways her students come up with to use classic techniques. She is an instructor at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, and the owner of Friendly City Clay & Art Center in Harrisonburg, VA, where she teaches handbuilding.
Class Cancellations and Absence
Refunds minus a 10% or $20 processing fee (whichever is lower) are offered until 14 days before the start of class. After that, we do not offer refunds. We don’t offer refunds for missed classes, so please be sure you can attend all sessions of a class, or that you are okay with missing any that you’ll be away for. You can find out more on our studio policies page.
