In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basic skills of Ikebana to create a beautiful flower arrangement with Artist-in-Residence, Stacy Larson. Bring your own flower vases to use or you may borrow one during the workshop. Participants will leave with a small flower frog/kenzan to display their Ikebana floral arrangement at home. This class is for Adults 16+.

Pre-registration required.

Join us for this collaboration between The International Quilt Museum and The LUX Center for the Arts for this fun ceramic workshop.  Inspired by the exhibition: Where Pattern Rests by Jaden Estes Carlson which is up through February 27th in the East Gallery at The LUX Center, this 2-day weekend workshop will allow you to spend Saturday at the Quilt Museum, getting a tour of the collection, sketching patterns and textures that inspire you, and getting feedback from your instructor and peers.  Sunday will be spent at the LUX Center, creating a ceramic piece of art using your sketch

Give your plants a handmade home in this 4-week class suited for both beginners and experienced students. Participants will learn foundational and advanced techniques of handbuilding with clay to create a variety of both unique and traditional planter forms including the utilization of molds, slab construction, coiling, and pinching. With instructor demonstrations, examples, and one-on-one guidance, students will engage in planning, problem-solving, and learn how to materialize their ideas while considering visual composition and functional characteristics.

This 6-week class will introduce students to the fundamentals of building sculptures out of clay. More advanced students will have time to hone their own style and skills. All clay, glazes, tools, and firing provided. Students also have access to the studio during open hours throughout this six-week class. Please refer to the Open Studio Calendar in the Ceramics Center for the most up-to-date hours. This class is for adults 16+.

Pre-registration is required.

Craft your very own ceramic planter in this one-night workshop! Students will learn foundational techniques of handbuilding with clay and will have the option to utilize molds, slabs, and coils (or a combination of all three!) to construct unique vessels for their plant pals. Participants will also learn how to apply decoration, surface design, and have the choice to glaze their work in a variety of colors. Finished planters will be low fired to Cone 04 and will be ready to pick up two weeks after the workshop. No experience necessary. All materials provided by the LUX.

Ikebana, also known as kado, or the “way of flowers,” is a traditional Japanese art form that involves the arrangement of flowers and other natural materials in a stylized manner. In this class, students will learn to create slab-built vases and containers specifically for ikebana flower arranging. During the final class, each student will create an ikebana flower arrangement in one of their handmade vases.

Sgraffito is a ceramics technique of carving a design through a surface layer of colored material to reveal the contrasting clay body underneath.  In this workshop, LUX Artist-in- Residence David Kruk will instruct participants on how to use a variety of tools to scratch or carve a design through the top layer of color to achieve illustrative and graphic surfaces.  Participants will get to choose from various forms premade by the instructor and will have the opportunity to carve into both leather hard and bone-dry clay (masks will be provided when carving into bone dry clay).

In this workshop, participants will use slabs, coils, stamps, and cookie cutters to create a custom Valentine’s Day flower vase. You’ll learn the fundamentals of slab construction with templates, explore simple ways to alter form, and experiment with surface decoration using a range of tools and vibrant glazes. All pieces will be low-fired (cone 04) and ready for pickup in two weeks. No experience necessary. All materials provided.

Discover a world of unexpected forms and textures by pairing clay and natural combustible materials in this 4-week class.  While we will provide a selection of burnout items to spark inspiration, please feel free to bring any organic materials you would like to test.  Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to keep a process notebook so they can compare results, share discoveries, and build a collective materials library.

While a basic familiarity of working with clay will help you get the most out of this class, all skill levels are welcome.

In this 4-week class taught by LUX Artist-In-Residence David Kruk, participants will learn how to recreate a historical pot using the handbuilding technique of coiling and pinching. Looking specifically at Chinese Neolithic pottery, participants will choose a form to work on during the course of the class. Participants will be guided on how to construct their vessel to a height (or width) of 10-14 inches, further developing coil building skills, tool technique, visuospatial ability, and material sensitivity.