Curiosity Pieces: A Hand-Building Workshop

Sunday March 1st 2026 🌕☄️🐴

9 am to 1 pm 

Clay has long been used in storytelling and sacred practice. An earthen altar made with your own hands adds to your story by holding meaning, memory, and the ritual of creating. Make your mini altar: a vessel for intention, remembrance, and presence.

Join me, Shazieh, for a meditative hand-building clay workshop where curiosity meets ritual. Together, we’ll create small wall or table top pieces that can serve as altars, vessels of intention, or simply objects of wonder.

Using approachable techniques like pinching, coiling, and slab work, you’ll shape clay into forms that reflect both playfulness and meaning while learning ceramic hand building tehniques.  

We’ll gather at 9 am and connect over our signature Love Cake, Pink Kashmiri Chai (dairy free) and a meet and greet. The workshop will follow, beginning at 9:30 am and ending at 1 pm. Dress for the outdoors and clay play!  

Between demos and hands-on guidance, you’ll follow your own impulses—adding texture, carving, stamped words or natural elements—to bring depth and spirit into your creation. Plants can be foraged in the backyard to imprint into your pieces. 

No prior experience with clay is needed; just curiosity and an openness to create. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have one or more pieces ready for firing, each carrying your own imprint of intention, imagination, and transformation to use in the new season. The pieces will take time to dry and be ready for pick up, hopefully, before the spring equinox on March 20th. 

What’s Included:

• Clay 5-8 lbs (two clay options), tools to use and foraged plants.

• Guidance in hand-building techniques

• Inspiration and prompts for designing curiosity or altar pieces

• You will make: One 6-8” altar piece or two smaller pieces, as well as an incense burner.

• Firing and finishing of your work by me (to be picked up before the Spring Equinox). No glazing. 

• Love Cake and Special tea from Kashmir. It is so beautiful and pink due to alchemy! 

• Who It’s For:

Anyone interested in clay, creativity, and personal expression. Beginners welcome!

Note:

Limit 10 participants.

Bring a journal to sketch and an apron. 

Scheduling pick up post firing is flexible and arranged individually to honor your and my rhythm and availability.

Please refer to our cancellation policy within the About me section under  FAQ’s.