The Expressive Figure

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Beginning: Tuesday · September 1 6:00-8:00pm $295

11 seats available

4 sessions

Tuesday · September 1 · 6:00-8:00pm

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About this experience4 weekly sessions

Step away from the everyday and spend four weeks immersed in creativity, conversation, and clay. This welcoming sculpting series offers a chance to slow down, explore your artistic voice, and connect with fellow makers in a relaxed and supportive studio environment.

Whether you’re new to sculpture or looking to expand your creative skills, you’ll explore the expressive possibilities of the human face and form through observation, imagination, and personal expression. Working with hand-building and sculpting techniques, you’ll create your own figure, bust, portrait, or expressive form. Your piece can be realistic, stylized, abstract, whimsical, or somewhere in between.

Rather than focusing on perfect likeness, this class encourages you to capture emotion, movement, personality, and story through clay. Along the way, you’ll experiment, take creative risks, and discover new ways of seeing and shaping form.

During the first week, you’ll explore the concept of gesture—the energy, posture, and movement that bring a figure to life. Through quick studies and foundational sculpting exercises, you’ll learn how artists communicate feeling and expression before adding details. In weeks two and three, you’ll build and refine your sculpture, developing form, features, texture, and character. During the final week, you’ll glaze your fired piece, adding color and finishing touches before it heads off for its final firing.

No experience is necessary. All materials, tools, and firings are included.

Before your first class, consider gathering a few reference images, sketches, or ideas that inspire you. These might include portraits, illustrations, sculptures, or expressive figures that capture the style, mood, or feeling you’d like to explore.

Come unwind, get your hands in clay, and experience the satisfaction of bringing a character, face, or figure to life. We can’t wait to see where your imagination takes you.