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In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, local artist and educator Heidi Woo will lead a mindfulness and pottery workshop! You'll practice meditation and make your own kurinuki yunomi cup out of air-dry clay.
Registration required.
Please arrive early so that you can be fully present for the breathing and meditation exercises prior to using the clay. If you come late, you may not be able to participate in the workshop at all.
"Kurinuki is a Japanese ceramic technique that involves carving the desired shape into a piece of clay. The name kurinuki can be literally translated as "to hollow".
A single lump of clay is used which is carved with the appropriate tools to achieve the desired shape. Instead of creating a work from individual pieces of clay, as is done in some other techniques, the piece is carved from a single block of clay."
You can find out more about kurinuki yunomi here!
We will be using air-cry clay for this project, so the end product will not be food-safe or able to retain water.
Expect to finish your clay piece within two hours, however you are welcome to stay for the full three hours, should you need the additional time.
Meet your instructor: Heidi Woo
Heidi Woo is a Korean American ceramic artist, therapist, and writer. Her work evokes themes of connection, healing, empathy, and nostalgia in various forms. Heidi creates ceramic forms through existential inquiry, accessing the strength, resilience, and love residing in all human beings. Heidi is a self-taught artist. Ceramics found her organically, and miraculously, when she was a new mother managing a cancer diagnosis. Shaping clay into form while simultaneously managing a threat to the life she was building was profoundly healing, enabling Heidi to access the deepest caverns of her psyche to reveal and transmute subconscious wounds.
Co-sponsored with our friends at AAPI Montclair!
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