FREE 11-week Class!

Learn basic clay skills, then design and create a serving dish for your most meaningful family recipe! Two generations of YOUR family collaborate.

FULL! Session 1: September 12 to November 14, 2023 from 6-9pm (exception is Halloween, we'll have a class Monday, 10/30). 
Clay Class every Tuesday for 10 weeks
Final potluck Saturday, November 18 from 11:30-2:30

FULL! Session 2: January 16 to March 12, 2024 from 6-9pm
Clay Class every Tuesday for 10 weeks
Final potluck Saturday, March 16 from 11:30-2:30

FULL! Session 3: March 19 to May 28, 2024 from 6-9pm
Clay Class every Tuesday for 11 weeks
Final potluck Saturday, June 1 from 11:30-2:30

At least TWO FAMILY MEMBERS from two generations must sign up together. All participants must be 14 years or older. Spanish speaking families welcome! Each session can have up to 8 families. 

Here’s what the class will include:

1. The first five clay classes you will both learn and practice basic hand building skills and surface decoration techniques. 

2. The elder generation will teach the younger generation a meaningful family recipe. You will be given a gift card to buy ingredients and cook together in your own home, taking pictures of the prepared food.

3. During the second five classes your participating family members will collaborate to design, build, and decorate a ceramic serving dish for your traditional family recipe.

4. You will again purchase ingredients with a gift card and cook the recipe together in your home. You will bring the prepared food in your handmade serving dish to our final potluck to share with all the other participants. We will all break bread together!

5. You will provide the recipe and be interviewed about it - the history, memories, traditions, and rituals around it. Lauren will compile a recipe book that will be published. Each family will get a copy that includes the recipes and their stories from all the sessions.

Pottery for Generations is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.