

Have you ever wanted dedicated one-on-one time with an educator to help hone your craft , pick their brain, and get honest feedback about your work? During February, March, and April, I’ll be doing day long private workshops in my house and ceramics studio in Cottekill, New York, less than two hours north of New York City. We can work in the studio on your skills or I can do demos, we can look at glazes, research sources, critique work or your website, talk about how to grow your business, and generally construct our time however you’d like. Email me at ayumihorie *at* gmail.com for more info.
Jill from British Columbia writes, “My week-long workshop making and talking pots with Ayumi was a beautiful exchange. Her teaching style is very collaborative, open, authentic, and inviting. I didn’t feel like I was being schooled, I was truly mentored. Ayumi has a wonderful collection of pots that inspired some really great discussions and we also worked with some great ideas she had for exercises and techniques that started me on the way to discovering what might be my voice. While she was exceedingly generous in sharing her techniques, skills and ideas, this workshop wasn’t about making Ayumi’s pots. She was really interested in me making my own pots. Ayumi was invested in me improving my throwing and trimming skills offering much welcomed critiques and suggestions to help me accomplish what I was trying to achieve. She also helped me articulate a critique on my own pots: an invaluable skill I use each time I throw a pot.
I am so grateful for the time I spent working with Ayumi: my pot sense, not to mention my business sense, are much better for it. Each time I sit down to make a pot, I find myself considering some part of the time spent in the studio with Ayumi. She really tailored the workshop to meet me where I was at in my ceramic journey: a modest proficiency with clay and ever growing passion for ceramics. I left my workshop with a brain full of inspiration, a fire in my belly for making pots like never before, and a friend.”