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* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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Large Scale Hand Building Course Experience Los Angeles
Explore hand building and connect with clay in this tactile ceramics course in LA!
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4 x 2.5 hours
1 to 50 guests
$300
What you'll do
Embrace the tactile nature of ceramics in this hand building course in Los Angeles. In this multi-session workshop, you will learn large-scale hand-building and focus on tuning the relationship between your hands, hearts, minds, and material. In this workshop, we will explore fundamental hand building techniques to create large form sculptural pieces, both functional and abstract. You are welcome to build as many pieces as you’d like throughout the duration of the workshop. You will also receive clay to take home with you to practice with in between the sessions. This class aims to strengthen your ability to listen and feel through clay. We will develop our capability to hear what the material is telling us and allow it to lead us, rather than imposing our own expectations onto it.Our hands are our receptors to feel through this world. They signal to our minds and hearts how to interact with the landscapes that surround us. When connecting and attuning to our sensorial touch, the information that we gather through our fingertips can be one of our greatest sources of insight.Clay is one of Earth’s most malleable materials. It holds memories and takes the impression of that which comes into contact with it. Moving through the elements - earth, wind, fire and air, clay becomes highly chaotic and unpredictable. It is both incredibly mutable and extremely delicate at the same time, teaching those that choose to work with that the path of least resistance is to let go.Through its shape shifting nature, clay allows for us to channel emotions and allow for them to take complex forms that at times transcend the limits of language. In a time of insufferable grief, ceramics is a process that can ground us and give form to emotions too complex for words. In certain states, ceramics has the ability to soothe our nervous system, allows us to connect to ourselves, one another and the world around us.This is ann opportunity to explore ceramics on a deeper level. Take home beautiful handmade pieces and a new perspective of this tactile medium. All pieces will be fired to cone five and will be ready for pick up within three weeks of the commencement of the workshop. We will be working with an unglazed clay body.Please note:
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- The workshop space is ADA accessible. A bathroom is available for workshop participants that has a set of 3 stairs leading to it that is not currently ADA accessible. For any specific needs or additional questions on accessibility, please contact the teacher.
- If you are unable to attend the workshop you may transfer your spot to another person, please confirm with the studio when doing so.
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Knowledge required
All experience levels welcome.
What you'll get
- All materials needed to build as many clay pieces as you like
- Your finished fired creations ready to pick up within three weeks of the workshop
- Clay to practice with at home
Session repeats
This class series runs over 4 consecutive days.
Your teacher
Sooki Studio is a ceramics and education space run by Armenian artist and educator, Natalia Ira Sookias. Her ceramics are a vehicle to both connect with her ancestors and create good quality goods for her community. Her work is made with the intention to last generations.Sooki Studio aims to provide access to ceramics as a means to support mental wellness and foster community. Natalia has been teaching over the last decade from the kindergarten level ranging to university graduate students in the US, Europe and the Middle East.
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