October 7 | 5:30–8:30 PM - $125 per person - firing included.

Take an image from your screen and put it on clay.

In this three-hour workshop, we'll explore how to turn your own images, drawings, and lettering into custom vinyl stencils for ceramic work. We'll walk you through the process from digitizing your artwork to applying the stencil and building the finished surface with underglaze, slip, or glaze.

The vinyl acts as a resist, allowing you to create crisp imagery, lettering, patterns, and raised surfaces that would be difficult to achieve by hand alone.

You'll learn how to prepare and simplify an image for stencil cutting, apply vinyl cleanly to bisque or leather-hard clay, work with different ceramic materials over the stencil, and remove the vinyl to reveal the final design. We'll also talk about what makes an image work well as a stencil and what to consider when applying these techniques to different ceramic surfaces.

The goal isn't to have everyone make the same pot. Bring your own ideas and we'll show you how to translate them onto clay.