Muddy Moons
Muddy Moons is a recurring, one-off handbuilding class that takes place on or near the full moon of every month in the wee hours of the night. Get prepared to get your witchy on. Each class has a project designed around the moon and the spirit behind that particular full moon. The class is 2.5 hours and can be experienced as a singular class or as a group of classes if you're into the vibe and the projects. Work from the class is glazed and fired and ready to be picked up in 4-5 weeks. The instructor for all of these muddy moons is our amazing Tig Tucker. Materials for classes are ordered in advance, please be aware of our cancellation policy and that all sales are non-transferable.
2025 Classes:
February 14: Snow moon: For our first Muddy Moons of the year, his moon is about focusing on what truly matters. In this class, students will make a sculpture of something that brings them comfort or symbolizes intentions for the new year. Students will also write down things from the previous year that they would like to let go of. These slips of paper will be placed inside the sculptures and burned away.
March 14: Worm Moon: This moon symbolizes the arrival of spring and new life. In this class, students will have the opportunity to hand-built a one-person place setting that will nourish them through the year. If there’s additional time, students can make a stone à la “Stone Soup.”
April 11: Pink Moon: This is a moon to let go of what no longer serves you, release old patterns, and embrace new beginnings. In this class, students will make planters and trays for the new season. Students can deboss flowers and leaves into their planters. While imprinting their planters, they can write feelings and habits that they would like to burn out in the fire.
May 9: Flower Moon: As the Spring’s final new moon, this moon is about renewal and transition, and cycle of life and death. Students will make a pair of bud vases embracing these themes.
June 13: Strawberry Moon: This moon is about growth and prosperity and intentions. Students will make berry bowls in hopes of a plentiful harvest this year.
July 11: Buck Moon: This moon is about solidifying intentions and prosperity. Students will make jugs to fill with their favorite spirits. Students will learn about face jugs and their use in burials and death in this country.
August 8: Sturgeon Moon: This moon is about regeneration and growth. Participants will learn how to glaze a cup and a coaster with a layered and inlayed technique with botanical motifs befitting of the plentitude of summer
Sept 5: Harvest moon: The September moon is about abundance, and participants in this months workshop will learn and apply an abundance of techniques to leather hard cups. We’ll learn mishima and water etchings, sgrafitto and slip trailing
October 3: Sanguine moon: Using an red, iron rich claybody to celebrate the Sagunine Blood Moon, participants will be creating clay portraits. These can be self portraits, of a loved one, an imaginary face- anything you want! If you have a specific face in mind be sure to bring a reference photo or two.
November 7 Beaver moon: To acknowledge people, things, and seasons loved and lost, we will make small altars in this class. This class will be a time to tend to and take of yourself as you prepare for the transition of the seasons.