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Workshops
Specialty workshops across Clayroom's studios that present unique techniques to broaden ceramic knowledge and inspire different forms. Workshops include: culturally significant ceramic vessels (i.e. moon jars), surface design techniques, glaze chemistry, advanced wheel-throwing, hand-building, alternative firings (i.e. raku) and more...
Raku & BBQ - Oakland
Every last Sunday of the month, 11:30am - 5pm
Enjoy delicious BBQ and an exciting afternoon of raku firing at Clayroom Oakland every month!
Enrollment Open!
Obvara Firing - Oakland
Every first Sunday of the month, 12pm - 4pm
Explore the Eastern European technique of dipping hot pots into a fermented mixture of flour, yeast, water & sugar!
Enrollment Open!
Fine Art Underglaze Painting with Sheila Chen - San Mateo
Saturday, December 20 11AM-1:30PM
Learn fine art painting techniques using underglaze to decorate bisqueware.
Clayroom Members Only.
Enrollment Open!
Coming in 2026...
Throwing Large Vessels with Bruno Kark - Oakland
Sat & Sun, January 24 & 25, 11AM-4PM
In pursuit of an art practice rooted in age-old traditions, Kark draws inspiration from techniques learned in Japan, shaping sculptural forms through wheel-thrown and slab-built processes.
Sign Ups Open!
Ice Cream Sculptures with
Ashley Bevington - SF (Soma)
Fri & Sat, January 23 & 24, 11AM - 5PM
Bevington's unique ceramic works use humor, excess, and playful details to celebrate the ordinary and bring joy to everyday life.
Ice Cream Sculptures with
Ashley Bevington - San Mateo
Sun & Mon, January 25 & 26, 11AM - 5PM
Bevington's unique ceramic works use humor, excess, and playful details to celebrate the ordinary and bring joy to everyday life.
Glaze Color Theory with Chinzalée Sonami SF (Potrero)
Saturday February 7th 11am -4pm & Saturday February 14th 11am - 1pm
This workshop adapts Albers’ foundational exercises to the ceramic surface, guiding you through experiments that reveal how glazes shift in hue, value, and saturation when layered or placed side by side.
Open 12/12 @ 11am
Immersive Woodfiring Workshop at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology
February 10-16 & Saturday 2/21 2026
Dive into the world of woodfiring in this never before offered weeklong workshop at Cobb Mountain in Middletown, CA. Clayroom Members Only.
Fully Booked
Torso Sculpting with Zoe Dufour - SF (SoMa)
Fri & Sat, February 20 -& 21, 10AM - 5PM
In this course, students will sculpt a 18” tall torso using contemporary hand building techniques informed informed by Renaissance and 19th century sculpting practices.
Opens 12/19@11AM
The Emotive Portrait with Zoe Dufour - Oakland
Sun & Mon, February 22 & 23, 10AM-5PM
In this workshop, students will be slab building portraits at 3/4 scale, focusing on primary emotions, and how they manifest in the movements of facial volumes, while learning sculpting techniques informed by the antique, Renaissance, and 19th century practices.
Opens 12/19@11AM
Hsin-Chuen Lin - San Mateo
Saturday & Sunday, March 14 & 15
Lin's work draws on traditional Chinese vessel forms while also embracing the freedom of American contemporary ceramics, blending these cultural influences with modern concepts and techniques.
Opens 1/ 9 @ 11AM
Height & Surface: Wheel Throwing with Camila Lim-Hing - SF (Potrero)
Friday & Saturday March13-14, 11am-5pm
In this two-day intensive workshop, students will focus on creating taller wheel-thrown forms and exploring surface design using underglaze techniques.
Opens 1/ 9 @ 11AM
“Sleepy” Pinch Pot Sculpted Face with Camila Lim-Hing - SF (SoMa)
Sunday March 15th 11am-5pm
In this handbuilding workshop, students will create a "sleepy” pinch pot, learning the fundamentals of figurative face sculpting in clay. Using simple pinch-pot construction as a base, participants will build personality and emotion into their forms through features, texture, and subtle shaping techniques.
Opens 1/ 9 @ 11AM
Temporal Slippage Clock Making with Randi Bachman - SF (SoMa)
Dates Forthcoming
Randi Bachman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages ceramic materiality to explore memory and monument through experimentation.
April 2025
Chris Alveshere - SF (Potrero)
Dates Forthcoming
"My pots are an investigation of items I find curious, feel sentimental towards, or objects I find humor in. This investigation could come from the object’s surface, form, or most often from intriguing proportion or scale. Inflated swells, large knobs, and enamel-like sheens from sanded surfaces and glazes create exaggerated, vibrant pieces."
April 2026
Theo Hirschfield - SF (SoMa)
Dates Forthcoming
Theo Hirschfield is a contemporary ceramic artist based in San Diego, California. Deaf since early childhood, his work is informed by a highly physical, full-sensory process. Hirschfield’s sculptures resist fixed meaning and instead function as a presence: intimate, outlandish, and open.
July 2026
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