About this Event
This small group workshop is an invitation to spend a couple of hours shaping your own ceramic mug by hand. No pottery wheel. Using simple handbuilding techniques, you’ll learn how to form, refine, and personalize a mug while working directly with clay in a relaxed studio setting.
We’ll explore approachable methods like slab and coil building and shaping, along with simple ways to add handles, texture, and surface details. Each piece will naturally take on the personality of the maker, which is part of the magic of handbuilt ceramics.
The atmosphere is social, easygoing, and beginner friendly. Come with friends, bring a date, or arrive solo and enjoy the quiet satisfaction of making something with your hands.
To keep things festive, fresh juices will be provided for mixing mimosas. Guests are welcome to bring their own champagne or sparkling wine if they’d like to join in (alcohol not provided).
At the end of the workshop, you’ll leave your mug at the studio to be professionally dried, glazed, and kiln fired. Finished pieces will be ready for pickup 4-6 weeks after th workshop. You'll recieve an email.
Workshop Details
• Small group handbuilding workshop
• Create your own ceramic mug from clay
• Beginner friendly — no experience necessary
• All clay, tools, materials, glazing, and firing included
• Fresh juices provided for mimosas
• BYOB champagne or sparkling wine welcome
• Finished mugs will be available for pickup once fired
• Hosted in an intimate Brooklyn home pottery studio
About the Instructor
Jazmin Swanson is a Brooklyn-based ceramic artist and educator with nearly a decade of teaching experience. She previously founded and operated a community pottery studio in Downtown San Diego with sixteen wheels and hundreds of students before shifting toward a more intimate teaching model centered on creativity, craft, and meaningful connection through clay. Her workshops focus on creating a welcoming space where people can slow down, experiment, and rediscover the simple joy of making something by hand.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1050 Bedford Ave apt 3a, 1050 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
USD 75.00












