Skill Level: One (Beginner)

Requirements: None, no experience required

Dates: Sunday, October 26, 10:30AM-5:30PM (with an hour for lunch) and Sunday, November 9, 1:00PM-4:00PM

In this exciting two-part collaborative intensive we will explore making bonsai planters through both slab construction (we will have templates available for those who wish to use them) and carving with artist Stephen Homer. After they are fired you’ll return for an immersive bonsai workshop with Eliot Myers of Blackroot Farms where you will pot up, prune, and shape your very own bonsai in one of your new creations! 

Participants will have the option to select various glaze finishes to be applied by staff or can choose to come back to the studio after their initial firing to apply glaze themselves.

Session One:

What makes a good bonsai planter

Slab construction of a planter

Carving and hollowing out a planter from a block of clay

Decoration options

Session Two:

Potting and wiring bonsai

Pruning and shaping

Care of your bonsai

Included with class:

All materials for creating your ceramic bonsai planters

Firings of works

Bonsai starter, soil, and other materials/tools for your bonsai

You will need to bring:

Nothing! 

(We recommend wearing or bringing clothes you don’t mind getting dirty)

$175

Get Tickets at:

https://belgerarts.org/ceramic-education/bonsai-planters-potting-shaping