Inspiring Images:
Screen Printing on Clay with Sam Briegel 
10/20-21 $250.00

Silk screening has become one of the most popular techniques to create detailed, layered colorful images on clay. In this two-day workshop, students will create and expose custom silkscreens using their own images and then print them using AMACO underglazes onto slabs of clay.  Each participant will also receive a complete silk screening kit with two silk screens.

Taught by Samantha Briegel, a District Clay Resident Artist.

Special Ikebana Demo, Talk and Flower Arrangements for 
Opening of Floating Islands:  Ceramic Vessels for Ikebana 
Saturday, Sept 29th at 6 pm at the District Clay Gallery

This special event will include an ikebana demo and artist talk by Valerie Eccleston plus Ikebana arrangements using ceramic vessels in the show by three artists.  Valerie will demo a simple ikebana arrangement that you can do at home.   In addition, Valerie (Ichiyo School), Victoria Melzer (Ohara School)  and Valeria Shishkin (Ikenobo School) will create the three arrangements.  

Ikebana is the centuries old practice of Japanese flower arrangement.  At the opening, you will see with your own eyes why this practice is considered a fine art in Japan.  These artists will be creating, simply put, floating islands of beauty for your contemplation and enjoyment.  

The show features 30 ceramic vessels by 14 master ceramic artists from the United States and Japan, including Randy Johnston, Ken Matsuzaka, Peter Callas, Ani Kasten and Jeff Shapiro among others. This is the largest exhibition of ceramic ikebana vessels in the United States in over a decade. The show is curated by Akira Satake, a Japanese-American ceramic artist living in Asheville and Ikebana practitioner. To see pictures of the ceramic vessels on display, click here. 

​To register for this event, please go here. 

Amazing Surfaces:
Glaze Spraying, Slip Decoration & Microcrystalline Glaze Firing
Workshop with Chris Lively
11/10-11, $250

During this two day workshop, Chris Lively will teach you the fundamentals of glaze spraying, microcrystalline glaze application and slip decorating techniques. Each of these areas will add depth and excitement to your work.  Crystalline glaze firing at DCC included in workshop.

"Slip decoration has been a favorite surface decoration method for many years and, over time, using gravity began to play a large role in the way I would apply my slip. My slip technique mimics the valley and mountain landscape I find at home in southwestern Virginia. In every work, I see peaks and ridges of far off mountains cut by wide rivers. I see my glaze design as another element to my landscape story. The glaze runs and pools over the surface of my work mimicking the way water rushes over the rocks in the river."     Chris Lively

NEW CALL FOR ENTRY:   
HOLIDAY CHEER:  A Georgetown Gallery Holiday Window Competition!

The District Clay Center and Cross MacKenzie Gallery are joining forces in order to celebrate and promote local ceramic artists and raise money to bring the wonder of clay to underserved kids in the DC metro area.

This Call for Entry is an opportunity to get your work known by the collectors of premier ceramics and by affluent Georgetown shoppers.  In the HOLIDAY CHEER, a Georgetown Gallery Holiday Window Competition, participating ceramic artists will compete for the opportunity to show their work in the front window at Cross Mackenzie Gallery, the DC's premier gallery for fine ceramic art.  

Up to ten artists will be invited to sell their work at an exhibition and fundraising party at the Gallery on Sunday October 14th to benefit District Clay’s Community Clay program for underserved kids.  The first-place winner of this competition will have their work featured in the front window at the Cross MacKenzie Gallery for the month of December 2018.  Other finalists will also be considered for future window exhibitions at the Gallery.  Participating artists agree to donate 50% of the sales price. 

Fill out this Call for Entry form with up to five photos by Sunday, Sept 30th.  Announcements of finalists will be  on Sunday, October 7th.  The entry fee of $15 will help fund the Community Clay program at the District Clay Center. 

For additional information, click here.

​Expanded Kids Classes at District Clay!

District Clay has added new Kids Classes on Monday afternoons and Saturday mornings. 
​Check out our new Kids Offerings here.  

US - Emerging Voices in Clay
Curated by Roberto Lugo - August 11-Sept 23

See Washington Post Review of the Show!

This expansive exhibition at the District Clay Gallery showcases 20 pieces  that demonstrate the vitality and power of 11 emerging voices in the art world today. It is also a window into the expressive range of ceramics – pieces in the show utilize the vessel, the figure, and installation work.   

Why Take a Pottery Class?

Check out these articles on how pottery classes can improve your mood, drive away the blues and improve your social life . . . all while making beautiful things with your own two hands:
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• Pottery is the new Pilates..., the New York Times, 11/30/2018
• Creating Ceramics Can Help Combat Depression, Artsy, 9/7/2017
• The Best Places to Take Ceramics Classes Across the US, Artsy, 6/22/2018
• 25 Reasons to Take a Pottery Class, Amaranth Stoneware, 7/6/2015
• WUSA9 Feature on the District Clay Center:  Local Company Changing the Pottery Scene, 8/28/18

Artsy says District Clay Center is "One of the Best Places to take Ceramics in the US"

The District Clay Center just got a shout-it from Artsy as one of the "Best Places to Take Ceramic Classes in the United States"  YAY!

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What's Happening at the District Clay Center

Description	What is it?	Time
​Raku Firing Workshops with Thien Nguyen	Raku Firing	10/20
​US:  Emerging Voices in Clay Exhibition at the District Clay Gallery	Exhibition	8/24-9/23
​"Floating Islands:  Ceramic Ikebana Vessels" Show at the Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) of the Japanese Embassy * Show moves to the District Clay Gallery on 9/29 *	Exhibition	8/24-9/28 (JICC) 9/29-10/28 (DClay)
"Floating Islands" Show Open at the District Clay Gallery with Artist Talk, Ikebana Demo	Show Open, Talk & Demo​	9/29, 6-8 pm
​Call for Entry:  HOLIDAY CHEER - A Georgetown Gallery Holiday Window Competition	​Call for Entry	​Entries due by 9/30/2018
Inspiring Images:  Screen Printing on Clay with Sam Briegel	Workshop	10/20-21
Planting a Garden of Ceramic Ideas with Catherine White	Workshop	10/27-28
Catherine White Artist Talk	Artist Talk	10/26, 6:30 pm
Amazing Surfaces:  Glaze Spraying, Slip Decoration and Microcrystalline Glaze Firing with Chris Lively	Workshop	11/10-11

Where is the District Clay Center?

The District Clay Center is located at 2414 Douglas St NE in Washington DC on the first floor of the Off the Beaten Track Warehouse.  We are minutes from Brookland, Union Market and Catholic U. 

Our doors are on the left hand side of the building facing the street.   Parking is available directly in front of the building.
 
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