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Ceramics | 5-Week Colorful Clay Jewelry Making

Create your own ceramic jewelry!

From 6-8:30pm
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Ages 15+ welcome! In this 5-week series, students will learn the basics of handbuilding to create decorative and wearable jewelry pieces with an emphasis on color and texture. Working with mid fire clay, we will explore various methods of building shapes and decorative techniques with colored clay, underglazes, slips, & glaze. Students will complete multiple projects throughout the course with an artistic and creative approach to decorative designs. The course will go over methods to create texture & patterns for small items such as beads, pendants, earrings, and trinket dishes. Students will be able to utilize a wide array of findings, tools, and materials for building and decoration.

Students will create pieces in the first 3 classes, we will glaze items on the 4th class, the last class we will put together and complete all of our jewelry with findings etc. The instructor will have additional decorative materials for sale such as findings and colored clays and slips. Projects will be ready to pick up 3-4 weeks after the last class.

All materials provided. Additional materials available via the instructor for a fee.
We recommend that each student bring an apron to wear and an older towel or a cloth rag.

• Military, first responders and sibling discounts: Email us for more information.
• Scholarships available: Click here for an application.
• Homeschool funds accepted: Click here for enrollment details.
• If this class is full, join the Interest List to be notified.
• If you would like to be notified of future offerings, join the Interest List to be notified when new dates or spaces are available.

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Ceramics | 5-Week Colorful Clay Jewelry Making
From 6-8:30pm
Select a date from the drop-down menu.

San Diego Craft Collective, 2590 Truxtun Rd., Studio 106, SD 92106 • 619.273.3235 • make@sandiegocraft.org

This class is hosted indoors, so we suggest:
• Dress in layers so you can adjust to the studio temperature.
• Bring water/beverage if you need to be comfortable.
• Bring an apron or wear comfortable clothes that can get messy. You can purchase an apron here.

DIRECTIONS: Located in Liberty Station’s Arts District, you can find our studio at the end of the hallway on the 1st floor of the Dorothea Laub Music & Arts Center (Bldg 176) at the corner of Roosevelt & Truxtun, next to The Lot movie theater. There is plenty of free parking. Parking Lot Q is behind our studio — enter via the driveway off Dewey. Across the street in the Vons parking lot, it is also free. If you can’t find us, call or text 619.273.3235.

CLASS SIZE: 3 min. If the minimum is not met, you will receive a full refund or credit toward another class.

REFUNDS: No refunds for tardiness or no-shows. For a refund (minus a 5% processing fee), you must cancel 7 days before the start of the class. After 7 days, we cannot offer refunds, as materials and supplies have already been purchased.

TRANSFERS: You may transfer your enrollment spot to someone else, but transfers must happen before the workshop begins. Please email us to let us know who’s coming.

INTEREST LIST: If a class is full or you would like to be notified of future offerings, join our Interest List to be notified when new dates or spaces are available.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Lydia Kardos is a San Diego visual artist working with a focus in ceramics. Her work in photography, exploring narratives through imagery, color composition and the female form as well as her work in painting and drawing have contributed to her sculptural voice. The contrasts of living in New York City, Mexico and California have deeply influenced her visual language. A conversation of home, surroundings and connection to these spaces can be seen in mark making, impasto and scumbling techniques in her glaze work as well as surface design, texture and more importantly color. The importance and inspiration of magical realism is apparent in her description of objects and spaces as her ceramics tell stories with texture, color, abstract shapes and biomorphic forms. Lydia invites the viewer to an intimate space between two worlds of the present and fantasy through exaggerated and vivid colors and her objects as characters, undulating in form, lush with texture. Her most recent exhibitions were in Boston, MA, New York, NY, and Brooklyn, NY.