• Workshops

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    Making Story Houses with Bunny Carter: A Workshop Series
    Three-and-a-half days: Saturday–Sunday, January 24–25, Saturday 31, 9am–3pm plus wrap up Saturday, February 7, 10 am–noon in West Linn
    $295 plus $25 materials & firing Limited to 8 participants
    On day 1 we’ll start by generating ideas about the story you might want your house to tell, with instruction on how to go about building it. On day 2 you’ll build it, implementing your story on the inside and outside of your house. Between Days 2 and 3, your house will be bisque fired. On day 3 we’ll bring it to life by completing the decorating inside and out. After that, your house will be glaze fired. On day 4 we wrap up with a look at everyone’s creations.

    2-Day Creative Process Workshop
    Saturday & Sunday, March 14–15, 2026, 10 am–4 pm
    $350 includes materials
    Prepare to come away with a blast of creative momentum!
    Discover and work with your own personal and symbolic imagery with focused explorations in collage, doodling and claywork. Set aside what you do and don’t know about technique, deepen your relationship with the materials and yourself as an artist, and practice ways of mining the riches of the unconscious. We begin with nearly a full day of collage, exploring image vocabulary and discuss how to make the most of your creative process. A sequence of doodling exercises invites essential artistic style expressed in the language of line, color and shape. Clay exercises build on vocabulary and style in 3-dimensional form. We complete and integrate the workshop experience with deeper clay exploration or by making an image journal.
    All levels welcome. No experience necessary. Limited enrollment.

    Sculpture Workshop Series
    Four Saturdays, August 22—Sept 12, 2026, 9:30 am–2:30 pm (plus open studio hours) $575 includes materials & bisque firing
    From ideation using collage and sketching on paper to sketches in clay, we’ll zero in on one or more directions that have meaning for you to explore in clay sculpture. Utilize and practice basic clay techniques including working solid and hollowing, pinch, coil and slab building. Start working at a size that’s comfortable for you and if you wish, challenge yourself to work bigger. I’ll be there to help you with plenty of troubleshooting and problem solving along the way. Pieces can be bisque fired when completed.
    Some familiarity with handbuilding (pinch, coil, slab) is required. Limited enrollment.