Tiffany Saw teaching Jingdezhen Relief Carving (Nov 2025)
Workshops
Specialty workshops across Clayroom's studios that present unique techniques to broaden your ceramic knowledge and inspire different forms. Workshops include: culturally significant ceramic vessels, surface design techniques, glaze chemistry, advanced wheel-throwing, hand-building, alternative firings, figure sculpting and more...
Monthly 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!
Monthly 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mastering Thrown Forms with Hsin-Chuen Lin - San Mateo
Saturday & Sunday, March 14 & 15, 9:30AM-4:30PM
This immersive two-day workshop is designed for advanced wheel throwers to elevate surface decoration through Hsin’s meticulous techniques, including chattering, leather-hard sgraffito, sodium silicate crackle effects, and pre-volumized roller textures.
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.
“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.
Oongi Demonstration with Kwak Kyungtae - SF (SoMa)
Saturday 3/28 10am-5:30pm
Sunday 3/29 10am- 5:00pm
The onggi demonstration is a unique opportunity for students to witness the traditional techniques at an enormous scale. Observers who wish to create bigger pieces in clay will gain insight into highly efficient Korean handbuilding and paddling approaches which can inform their work.
Heads Up: Expressive Wall Hangings with Kyungmin Park - San Mateo
Sat & Sun April 11 &12 10AM-4PM
In this two day hands-on sculpting workshop, students will create a wall-hanging sculptural head about 8-10 inches tall, learning how to build a strong foundation form and develop expressive facial features.
Temporal Slippage Clock Making with Randi Bachman - SF (SoMa)
Sat & Sun April 11-12
Randi Bachman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages ceramic materiality to explore memory and monument through experimentation.
Throwing with Colored Porcelain with Chris Alveshere - SF (Potrero)
Fri & Sat April 24-25th
"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."
Animal Toy Making with Chris Alveshere - SF (Potrero)
Sunday April 26th
"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."
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.
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