Service Description

Just in time for the holidays! In this 2 hour workshop, Gin Scott will guide you in using cookie cutters and fun textures to make Santas, Angels, Christmas Trees, Menorahs, Snowmen, Stars, Dreidels, Gnomes and other Christmas and Hanukkah shapes all from a slab of clay! Maybe we’ll even make your own pattern for a special 2026 ornament!! In our second hour we will add colors and decorations using our Speedball Underglazes that are made right here in Statesville!! Join us on Saturday, November 21st from 2-4 pm for this fun and festive workshop!!! Sign up with your friends and make it a true event!!! Once you've made and glazed your ornaments, they will stay in the studio to dry a bit and then be bisque fired in our kilns, clear glazed by staff and fired one more time before ready for pick up on November 29th or later. Workshop fee includes clay, tools, both firings and all glazing. Each participant will make 10-12 or more ornaments from their slab of clay!! No experience is needed, just an excitement for the holidays and a willingness to learn:) Instructor: Gin Scott Gin is the owner of Create Pottery Studio and loves teaching clay classes! She and her husband Rhyne live in Statesville and after raising their 3 children, Ben, Abby and Luke and a rewarding career of over 30 years as a Speech-Language Pathologist she opened the studio in 2019. Gin wanted to share her joy for clay with others and to build a community of makers. She took her first pottery class many years ago at Mitchell Community College and Bruce Jordan was her instructor! Gin considers herself a hand builder, using slab construction to make most of her pieces and tiles. She has taught Kids' Studio, "Taste of Clay" and Hand Building classes and several clay workshops for kids and adults. Gin is very grateful to be able to share her favorite way of making art with others!!