Join artists Mitch Iburg and Zoë Powell at Dusted & Blue Ceramics studio in San Francisco, California for a weekend about designing tea and sake ware with serving guests in mind.

In this 2-day workshop, Mitch & Zoë will demonstrate their process for creating one-of-a-kind vessels for sake and tea. After looking at a variety of tea bowls, tea cups, sake bottles, and pouring vessels, each participant will have the opportunity to create pieces with their unique voice.

Throughout the workshop, Mitch and Zoë will discuss their approaches to balancing function and expression, creating matching sets, and exploring texture and form through various hand-building techniques. The instructors will also provide samples of sand and crushed stones which students can use to add texture and variation to their work.

Work produced during the class will be bisque-fired by the studio. Further glaze firing will need to be arranged by the student.

August 24th and 25th, 10-5pm with a 1hr lunch break

Day 1: class introductions, forming demonstrations, guided student work time

Day 2: trimming/finishing demonstration, guided student work time

Additional Workshop Info and Terms:

This workshop is intro- level friendly!

This workshop will include clay and bisque firing of all pieces. Attendees will be responsible for their own tools or can purchase a tool kit in our shop. A list of tools to bring will be e-mailed to you before the workshop. For an additional amount, Dusted and Blue can offer to glaze and glaze fire pieces on the attendees' behalf.

If an attendee is traveling and wants to plan accordingly, they can plan to pick up their bisque pieces within 4 days after the workshop is complete. If attendee opts in for glaze + glaze firing, please allow for up to 10 days for all firing to be completed.

Dusted and Blue can additionally offer shipping for those who are traveling. Please reach out to Dusted and Blue at Friends@dustedandblue.com to arrange shipping.

Once pieces are fired, attendees will be notified and items must be picked up within two weeks of notification.

*Please read our workshop policies before completing purchase

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Mitch Iburg and Zoë Powell are ceramic artists who have dedicated their careers to working with locally sourced clay and mineral resources. Through the years, they’ve been able to research clays from across the United States: Iowa, Virginia, New York, California, Minnesota, Vermont, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

They each produce a wide range of work, from functional tea and sake ware to expressive vessels, to sculptural objects. In all their work, Mitch and Zoë share a general ethos of experimentation and collaboration with the natural world.

In 2018 they opened Studio Alluvium, a ceramics studio and teaching organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.