classes // workshops // events
Portugal - 2025 International Clay Retreat
CLAY + FOOD + FIRE! Join us in Portugal this February for an unforgettable 10-day experience with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro!
2025 Writers Retreat
Craigardan will welcome acclaimed writer & mentor Kate Moses of Birds & Muses for a week-long spring writer’s intensive at Craigardan.
EMPTY BOWL, FULL HEART MAKERS DAYS IN THE CLAY STUDIO
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
EMPTY BOWL, FULL HEART MAKERS DAYS IN THE CLAY STUDIO
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
EXPERIENCING CLAY with Kiki Liu
Join 2024 Teaching Fellow Kiki Liu for a beginners course to hand building with clay.
POTTERY ON THE WHEEL with Lanse Stover and Michele Drozd: Thursday Mornings
Join us in the clay studio this summer for this all-levels, 5-week pottery class. We’ll get our hands dirty and make great pots!
POTTERY ON THE WHEEL with Lanse Stover and Michele Drozd: Tuesday Evenings
Join us in the clay studio this summer for this all-levels, 5-week pottery class. We’ll get our hands dirty and make great pots!
EMPTY BOWL, FULL HEART MAKERS DAYS IN THE CLAY STUDIO
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
EMPTY BOWL, FULL HEART MAKERS DAYS IN THE CLAY STUDIO
Come join Craigardan and Empty Bowl Full Heart in creating bowls for the 2024 fundraiser to support local food pantries. No experience is necessary! This is a fun event for adults and teens 12 and older.
FOOD CLAY FIRE: WOOD KILN BUILDING WORKSHOP
Build Craigardan’s new wood kiln! Join us for a special two-week, wood-fired kiln building workshop with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro!
Wheel Throwing @ NCCC! // Bowls + Pottery with Lids
Learn to make pottery with us at North Country Community College during this short, four-week throwing class.
Wheel Throwing @ NCCC! // All Levels
Learn to make pottery with us at North Country Community College during this short, four-week throwing class.
Materials Science: Weekend Workshop Intensive
A 3-day intensive introductory course on the science behind clay and glazes.
Clay Class: Techniques + Surfaces
Hedy Yang will teach new pottery techniques with a focus on surface design
Pottery Amplifies Community: A Wood Fire Workshop with Sam Taylor and Mark Shapiro
Join us for a week long workshop as we focus on our lives as potters, makers, and human beings.
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
Learning to throw on the potter’s wheel is one thing on everyone’s “bucket list.” Join Us!
Alternate Constructions: Handbuilding and Throwing
Handbuilding pottery is an exciting addition to using the potter’s wheel, and it gives the artist a new opportunity to experiment with form and texture.
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
Learning to throw on the potter’s wheel is one thing on everyone’s “bucket list.” Join Us!
Intermediate + Advanced Throwing
This class is an opportunity to expand on what you know about wheel throwing!
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
Learning to throw on the potter’s wheel is one thing on everyone’s “bucket list.” Join Us!
Slow Clay
As the pace of contemporary life seems to accelerate, we will slow down. A handbuilding class with Barbara Tam.
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
Learning to throw on the potter’s wheel is one thing on everyone’s “bucket list.” This is your chance!
Materials Science: An Intro to Clay and Glazes
An introductory course on the science behind clay and glazes.
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
This is our last pottery class of the year! We'll resume in February so let us know what you're interested in learning.
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
Learning to throw on the potter’s wheel is one thing on everyone’s “bucket list.” This is your chance!
Fresh New Pots: With Food as Muse
This class draws from individual preferences of cooking and eating in order to design & make new and exciting tableware!
Handbuilding Pottery
Handbuilding pottery is an exciting alternative to using the potter’s wheel, and gives the artist a chance to experiment with form and texture
Intro to Pottery: Centering and Throwing
Learning to throw on the potter’s wheel is one thing on everyone’s “bucket list.” This is your chance!