Texture & Trinkets: A Three-Week Hand building Workshop at Arts Lab of South County – Tracys Landing, MD

In this three-week workshop, you'll learn basic hand building techniques while creating a collection of one-of-a-kind pottery pieces. Choose from projects like trinket dishes, wall pockets, ornaments, bud vases, and decorative treasures. Use stamps, found objects, texture tools, and additional clay elements to add interesting patterns, dimension, and details to your creations. You'll have the freedom to explore organic shapes or use provided pottery forms to help bring your ideas to life.

Holiday-inspired or not, the choice is yours! With a variety of projects to choose from, you'll have the freedom to experiment with textures, shapes, and designs that reflect your own style and interests.

This relaxed, beginner-friendly workshop is all about creativity, experimentation, and enjoying the process of working with clay. No pottery experience necessary!

Workshop Details

Dates: November 24, December 1 & December 8

Time: 6:00–8:00 PM

Cost: $130 for Arts Lab members | $150 for non-members

Students: 6 total, 2 to run which we have.

Registration includes a $20 materials fee covering clay, glazes, and firings.

Finished and fired pieces will be ready for pickup on December 22, just in time for holiday gift-giving!

Interested in becoming a Member? Click here for more information.

About the Instructor

Jen Casey

Before building a career as a full-time professional photographer, Jen Casey spent more than 15 years as an educator, with a focus on art, creativity, and project-based learning. Her teaching approach emphasized hands-on exploration, creative problem-solving, and learning through making.

Teaching remained an important part of her career as a photographer. Jen taught photography and the business of photography at Anne Arundel Community College, has presented to photography groups throughout Maryland, and has developed and led numerous workshops of her own.

While photography has been her professional focus, Jen's creativity has never been limited to one medium. She also explores painting, ceramics, and other creative pursuits, bringing the curiosity of both an artist and a lifelong learner to everything she does.

With a background spanning education, artmaking, and creative entrepreneurship, Jen understands both the joy of making something and the reward of helping someone else discover how to make it themselves.

About Arts Lab of South County

Vision: To create a vibrant, nationally recognized arts destination in Southern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where everyone can experience the life changing impact of creative expression.

Arts Lab of South County operates as a workspace where artists can create their own work and share the experience with others. Arts Lab provides dynamic interactions with the arts through our community of visual artists, open studio tours, and programs. Through our artist members and guest artists, we offer art up close, in person, and in progress. Artists work in oil paint, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, pencils, glass, ceramic, metal/jewelry, fiber arts, stone, plastic and more. We aim to create value for Southern Anne Arundel County residents through classes, lectures, and other community events.

Arts Lab of South County is supported in part by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, Maryland State Arts Council, Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area, The Cynipid Project, Dippel & Co., and Herrington Harbour North.