Clayming Beloved Community
Oct 14 2025 @ 6:00 pm
Guided by a Zen Buddhist practitioner and registered art therapist, explore simple physical practices with clay designed to bring you into the moment.
Adult Classes
The Gardiner Museum is a leader in clay and art education, offering a range of adult classes year-round in our studios.
Gardiner Friends get 15% off and front-of-the-line registration for sessional classes and camps. Join now!
Does not apply to Get Acquainted pass holders.
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Re-claym Re-connect Re-member
Oct 28 2025 @ 6:00 pm
Guided by a Zen practitioner and registered art therapist, engage in the simple physical practice of breath with clay.
Concepts in Clay (Intermediate)
Oct 30 2025 – Nov 20 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Technical or creative roadblocks getting in the way? This class is designed to help you come up with and build on your ideas in ceramics. Find inspiration, brainstorm, and plan for your dream creation.
Reclayming Space to Build Community
Nov 4 2025 – Nov 25 2025
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Guided by a Zen Buddhist practitioner and registered art therapist, explore the dance between breath and clay through a series of hand-building exercises designed to awaken you the present moment.
Planters & Vases (All Levels)
Nov 15 2025 – Dec 6 2025
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Create vases and planters to brighten up your space and decorate them through patterning, carving, and glazing.
Wheel Throwing: Gardiner Collections (All Levels)
Sep 27 2025 – Nov 22 2025
10:30 am – 1:30 pm
Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes, inspired by wheel-thrown works in the Gardiner Museum’s collections.
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (Intermediate)
Sep 29 2025 – Nov 24 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Inspired by the Gardiner Museum’s permanent collections, practice wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, texturing, and more.
Wheel Throwing: Stoneware (Beginner)
Sep 29 2025 – Nov 24 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Using stoneware clay, learn basic wheel throwing techniques to create cylinders and bowls, and experiment with glaze combinations.
Hand Building and Wheel Throwing Combo (Beginner)
Sep 29 2025 – Nov 24 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Learn hand building, wheel throwing, and surface decoration to create functional ceramics.
Studio Time: Stoneware (Intermediate)
Sep 30 2025 – Nov 18 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Develop your skills in wheel throwing, hand building, glazing, texturing, and more. This open studio style class focuses on independent experimentation.
Sculptural Pottery: Stoneware (All Levels)
Oct 1 2025 – Nov 26 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Push your ideas beyond the functional into the sculptural, using hand-building techniques to make and decorate small sculptural forms.
Stoneware (Intermediate)
Oct 1 2025 – Nov 26 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Refine your hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques, and experiment with exciting glaze combinations.
Wheel Throwing: Stoneware (Intermediate)
Oct 1 2025 – Nov 26 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Advance your skills working with stoneware on the pottery wheel to create functional and sculptural vessels.
Throwing Intensive (Intermediate)
Oct 2 2025 – Oct 23 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Pull higher, shape better, and learn how to make the most of your clay. This class is perfect for tentative pullers and anyone looking to push their skills on the pottery wheel.
Story Tiles: Ceramic Tilemaking (All Levels)
Oct 2 2025 – Nov 20 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance maiolica, Islamic tile patterns, and contemporary ceramics, you’ll develop a set of original, hand-built and decorated tiles.
Mosaic Tiles with a Twist (All Levels)
Oct 2 2025 – Nov 20 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Explore the mosaic style of pique assiette, which incorporates ceramic shards, broken dishes, and other found objects into a design.
Wheel Throwing and Surface Decoration: Stoneware (All Levels)
Oct 2 2025 – Nov 20 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Inspired by the Gardiner Museum’s permanent collections, learn wheel throwing and surface decoration techniques, from sgraffito to water etching.
Hand Building (Beginner)
Oct 3 2025 – Nov 21 2025
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Learn to make functional, sculptural, and decorative pieces using hand-building techniques. Practice sculpting, slab building, coiling, surface decoration, and glazing.
Clay & Bloom: Ikebana Sogetsu & Vase Making Workshop (Intermediate)
Oct 7 2025 – Nov 18 2025
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Explore the interplay between form and nature in this intermediate workshop blending ceramic practice with Sogetsu school of Ikebana.
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