Event Phone: 512-666-9003
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Woven Basket Workshop
June 14, 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Woven Basket Workshop with Sarah German
Sarah German will teach her technique of building a woven coil structure for a basket to be completed by students in this workshop. Learn how Sarah lays out her architecturally inspired patterns and builds them through weaving coils to create delicate but strong colorful pieces.
Students will learn how to color clay using stains, design and lay out their own basket pattern, and 
construct it while learning how to roll consistent coils, attach them to avoid cracking, and work with multiple colors of clay in one piece.
Students will be encouraged to share their colored clay made in class to make a brilliantly colored piece, similar to Sarah’s great palette of colors.
This class is suited for beginner and intermediate level students, but it can be helpful to some hand building techniques and terms under their belt.
Clay, mason stains and firing included in cost of workshop, artists can opt to fire their pieces at AOC or take them home at end of workshop.
Level: Beginner and Intermediate
Instructor: Sarah German
Artist Statement:
My work is an exploration in function, form, texture, and color. My experience in ceramics, sculpture, and printmaking has led me to my current work.
Though ceramics can be a fragile material, my work is influenced by materials that when structured in a specific manner, provide strength, such as yarn in a weaving or metal beams in a truss bridge. This can be seen in the delicate, yet strong woven pieces that I create by rolling coils of clay and weaving them in time-tested patterns proven to provide support.
My pieces are intended for everyday use, but it is important to me that they reach outside the boundaries established by today’s culture of mass production. Using a handmade piece of pottery on a daily basis allows for a more personal and unique experience that is a result of skill and craftsmanship, which tends to be absent in the world of large-scale manufacturing. It creates a personal connection between the artist and the user.
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Registration and Refund Policies:
- Tuition is due in full at time of registration.
- Workshop registrants must be a minimum age of 14.
- Art Off Center reserves the right, if necessary to cancel the workshop due to unforeseen circumstances. Participant workshop fees will be fully refunded.
- Art Off Center can not be held responsible for travel arrangements.