Colorworks: Slab, Stack & Slice 2027

Colorworks:
Slab, Stack & Slice
1.5-Day Workshop

Saturday January 30 2027, 9AM-4PM
Sunday January 31 2027, 9AM - 12 PM

Ready to move beyond surface decoration and build with color from the inside out?

Colorworks: Slab, Stack & Slice

Build the pattern. Build the slab. Build the form.

Slab, Stack & Slice explores how to create patterned slabs using Colorworks color clay and base clay together, then turn those slabs into strong, beautifully constructed forms.

Rather than decorating the surface after the fact, you’ll build color directly into the slab itself. We’ll create designed sections of colored clay using ribbons, dots, stacked shapes, pixel-like patterns, and sliced elements, then arrange and integrate them with base clay to create a cohesive “fabric” of clay.

The key is learning how to make all of those individual elements behave as one structurally sound slab. You’ll explore how thickness, moisture, spacing, compression, and construction affect the finished piece, helping prevent the cracking and separation that can occur when different clay sections are combined.

In this playful, hands-on Colorworks workshop, you’ll explore:

• Creating patterned components from Colorworks clay
• Building with ribbons, dots, stacked shapes, sliced elements, and pixel-like patterns
• Combining color clay and base clay successfully within a single slab
• Creating a cohesive “fabric” of clay for slab construction
• Revealing pattern through stacking and slicing
• Planning pattern placement before constructing your form
• Managing moisture, thickness, compression, and joins for successful construction
• Using your finished patterned slabs to create functional or sculptural forms

These techniques give you a versatile new way to think about slab building. Instead of beginning with a plain slab and adding decoration, the slab itself becomes the design.

You’ll finish with two marvelous pieces and a toolbox of Colorworks slab-building techniques you can carry into mugs, bowls, vessels, sculptural forms, and your own future projects.

Experience Level: Open to Marvelous Mud members and experienced non-members who are comfortable with basic clay construction. No previous Colorworks class is required.

Required Student Supplies...

Links for priced items will be in follow-up email after registration. All prices shown are estimates taken at time of publication prices may be different.

• Minimum of 4 lbs of light body clay - Iceman is recommended
• Minimum of 3 lbs of color clay in 3 desired colors (Separate Purchase)
• Journal and pen
• Personal scale like a kitchen scale that measures in ounces($20)
• Spray bottle 12 oz  ($4)
• Fine point sharpie

*Members may use specific Member Discount Code for this class (found in Communities) if using their own base clay. Discount Code must be used at checkout. No refunds will be given full registration.

Members & Non-Members must purchase their own Colorworks color clay. Members: Use the Colorworks link in Communities
Non-Members: Use this link Shop Colorworks Color Clay & Slip

Workshop Info:

• LUNCH- Bring a bag lunch (refrigerator available) or order in from a local spot! (Each student will be responsible for their own pick-up or arranging together with others.)
  

• Classes start promptly on time.

• Class Registrations are non-refundable and non-transferable.

• Adults Only (18 years and up) Only registered students are permitted in the studio.

• Pieces made by Non-Members will be fired to bisque and then clear glazed by our studio assistant if desired. Non-members will be billed for shipping their finished pieces if applicable.

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Please email with any questions. Rachelle@MarvelousMudPotteryStudio.com

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