It's time to get your hands dirty! Our June clay classes offer something for everyone! 🎨 AMOCA’s youth classes offer children and teens (ages 6-16) an opportunity to dive into new artistic skills in our ceramic studio all month long. 4-week, 1-day, and 3-day classes are available. These classes are great for all levels, including those who haven’t had the opportunity to try their hands at clay. 🫶 Adults new to clay can join an Introductory Session on Friday, June 13. The perfect way to get your hands dirty, relax, and have fun! In this one-hour introductory class, you’ll learn the basics of throwing on the potter’s wheel. 🔥 A little more advanced? Join Nathan Stanfield in the AMOCA studio for a 3-day, hands-on soda firing workshop June 14, 15, & 21. Participants will learn all aspects of the process of soda firing and have the opportunity to fire their own work in AMOCA’s outdoor kiln. Learn more at register at amoca.org or by following the links in our bio. Pictured: 1. Clay instruction in the Studio 2. Recent soda fired pot with flashing slip made by Nathan, fired April 2025 3. Pieces ready to fire 4. Students at the wheel 5. Clay figure with mask by Michelle Solorzano 6. Clay nature impressions 7. Introductory class at AMOCA 8. Wheel-throwing (fb)

We have a few seats still available in this weekend's Clay Seed Pod Workshop! 🌱 Join AMOCA, California Botanic Garden, and naturalist Rosie Brand for a two-day workshop on May 30 & 31, exploring the intricate relationships between living seed architecture and their environments. In this nature + ceramics workshop, we’ll spend the Friday afternoon at the California Botanic Garden touring their extensive native seed bank and observing their living collection of CA native plants. Afterward, we’ll do some sensory field journaling exercises in the Garden to shape personal narratives with the plants that surround us in our everyday lives. On Saturday, in the AMOCA Studio, students will share their botanical findings and explore Brand's collection of locally foraged seed pods. We will continue our conversation around fostering habitats for our more-than-human neighbors, discussing human impact on the natural environment. As we imagine new possibilities for collaborations with the plant world around us, students will build their own tactile seed pod architectures through clay, using essential ceramic hand-building techniques to create both ephemeral and permanent sculptures: Clay Seed Pods. Along with their seed sculptures, students will be able to make and take home clay seed balls embedded with native wildflower seeds to be gifted back to the land. This class is open to all levels of clay experience! Learn more and register at https://www.amoca.org/events/seed_pod/ About the Artist: Rosie Brand is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator living on Tongva land: Los Angeles, CA. Brand’s ceramic sculptures emerge from an intuitive exploration of the natural world, as she transcribes the tactile languages of other-than-human intelligence. Born in the United Kingdom, Brand moved to California in 2016. Certified as a California Naturalist via the University of California’s Environmental Stewards program, she teaches interdisciplinary workshops at various arts and community spaces across Southern California including Pitzer College Art Galleries, Heavy Manners Library, and The Feminist Center for Creative Work. She is an advocate for alternative education and a founder and facilitator of the artists’ collective, worm school. Brand’s sculptures are on view at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in the exhibition Seed: A Living Dream from December 2024 until June 2025. (fb)