An intentional creativity ceramic journey through the elements
Co-taught by Katy & Jim Atchison
Earth: Hope
Now available on Webinar
Air : Centering
Now available on Webinar
Fire: Forgiveness
Now available on Webinar
Water : Honoring
LIVE Premier Date: January 23rd, 2021
Earth: Hope
Now available on Webinar
Air : Centering
Now available on Webinar
Fire: Forgiveness
Now available on Webinar
Water : Honoring
LIVE Premier Date: January 23rd, 2021
A series of Elemental Ceramic Workshops led by Intentional Creativity Teacher, Katy Atchison to help students open themselves to the creativity they have within. Katy will be joined by Jim Atchison who will be sharing his 45 years of pottery experiences as he assists you in your individual creations. The workshops can be taken separately or as a complete series over two weekends. Each workshop is approximately 3 hours long.
In these virtual classes we will celebrate each element while hand making your own ceramic pieces. We will be mixing the fundamentals of Intentional Creativity with the science and beauty that is ceramics.
Why take these classes and who are these classes for?
We know that 2020 has been unpredictable, scary and confusing. The 4 elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, are four things we know we can rely on, even when life is hectic and crazy. We also know that creativity can ignite a deeper knowing within each of us. This class is for anyone looking to escape while also learning more about pottery and themselves in the process.
Each class will premier on the scheduled date BUT will also be recorded so that you can take the class as you are able. You may also choose to take the classes individually, as a weekend retreat or in a complete series. Each class features a different clay object into which to focus your creativity. You choose your own creative adventure and we will be there as guides along the path.
How does this work?
Can’t make the class date? No problem! You can access the recording any time and take the class on your own schedule.
Why take these classes and who are these classes for?
We know that 2020 has been unpredictable, scary and confusing. The 4 elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, are four things we know we can rely on, even when life is hectic and crazy. We also know that creativity can ignite a deeper knowing within each of us. This class is for anyone looking to escape while also learning more about pottery and themselves in the process.
Each class will premier on the scheduled date BUT will also be recorded so that you can take the class as you are able. You may also choose to take the classes individually, as a weekend retreat or in a complete series. Each class features a different clay object into which to focus your creativity. You choose your own creative adventure and we will be there as guides along the path.
How does this work?
- Your ticket includes a 3-hour class which can be accessed from the comfort of your own home.
- All materials will be mailed to you prior to the start of class
- There is no experience necessary.
- Each class will have a different ceramic technique introduced so you know you’ll continue to deepen your knowledge of ceramics through each class.
- You will mail your piece back to the ceramic studio for firing with other students taking the class - combining your energy together!
- Your piece will be safely mailed back to you.
- All shipping is included, too!
Can’t make the class date? No problem! You can access the recording any time and take the class on your own schedule.
About Katy
Katy is an Intentional Creativity Teacher, artist, graphic designer and teacher. She’s been teaching multi-disciplinary art classes to adults for over 15 years. She likes to combine traditional hands-on learning techniques with exercises that ignite your inner wisdom and particularly loves it when a student goes rouge and finds their own path to the finish line of any project.
about Jim
Jim is a full time potter with over 45 years of experience in clay. His focus for the last decade has been in post firing manipulation. Teaching has taught Jim that every person has a story and every piece expresses their experiences. In his personal collection of pottery, his favorite pieces are the ones with the best stories, and not all of those stories are pretty.
The CLASS ORIGIN STORY
I’m sure for you, like us, 2020 has been one major event to the next - without the same support of our community to surround us. I myself have gone inward much of 2020, learning how to ground myself, how to take things a little more slowly so that I have room to process and ready myself for what’s next. I sit in my backyard and I watch the birds come in and out of the yard on their own schedule. I enjoy the breeze on my face between important work meetings. I’ve felt myself connect with nature as I’m unable to connect with others around me.
Back in May, my Dad, Jim, and I teamed up to help launch his own virtual pottery classes and I suppose it was just a matter of time before the two of us blended our love for teaching together to form a class co-taught by us.
At first, we were going to do just a raku pottery class in which the students would burn and alchemize things they wanted to release into a piece of pottery. But with the 2020 fires in the Pacific Northwest, this class felt like it needed a counterbalance - something that celebrated water if we were going to use fire to alchemize feelings. Then, naturally, you want to also honor earth and how it can hold water and withstand the blaze of fire. This is where this class series was born… wanting to recognize that in order to use fire - we needed to celebrate, honor and recognize the importance of all of the elements that surround us.
Back in May, my Dad, Jim, and I teamed up to help launch his own virtual pottery classes and I suppose it was just a matter of time before the two of us blended our love for teaching together to form a class co-taught by us.
At first, we were going to do just a raku pottery class in which the students would burn and alchemize things they wanted to release into a piece of pottery. But with the 2020 fires in the Pacific Northwest, this class felt like it needed a counterbalance - something that celebrated water if we were going to use fire to alchemize feelings. Then, naturally, you want to also honor earth and how it can hold water and withstand the blaze of fire. This is where this class series was born… wanting to recognize that in order to use fire - we needed to celebrate, honor and recognize the importance of all of the elements that surround us.
These classes explore some of what we can learn from each element around us and we will dig in to learn about our own deep knowing. When you come out of the class, you’ll know more about yourself and ceramics while also creating a beautiful piece of pottery.
EARTH: Hope
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Sign up for the online Webinar: $155
This is a 3 hour class. What helps grounds you? How do you grow an idea, a hope, a dream from that stability? Where do you store your seeds of hope? We start our Elemental Ceramic Workshops with: Earth. To ground us, to start with a seedling found deep within our hearts. We all have seedlings of hope, we have an inner voice that says - I want, I need, I hope… For each of us these seeds are distinctly different. For some of us, it’s a hope for the planet - for others it’s simply to be loved. We need it - a place to squirrel away small reminders from our inner muse. We know we need a place to grow these hopes and nurture them- place them in an Orb where they can be safe, watched and grow below the earth that protects them. In this class we will build a Hope Orb. Your orb will be made of a glass base and a ceramic lid made by you. This will be a container for all your seedlings to act as a reminder, to be safe from harm and to be nurtured by the earth that contains them. |
AIR: Centering
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Sign up for the online classWebinar: $195
This is a 3 hour class. Have you been listening? Have you been listening to your heart, your needs, your wants… your worries? Have the sounds of your own thoughts crept in and overwhelmed you? Air, the element that can carry any negative thought away. Push it away and put it into the seamlessly infinite universe. A gentle chime: can be used to remind ourselves to come back to center when we need it. AIR: vital to how we live; breath. This element sits between earth and fire - It holds temperatures of hot and cold - but also holds our heartbeats - carrying them from your body to another. Sound: a reverberation, a wave and a healing modality in which we can calm ourselves, excite ourselves or build a memory around a note or rhythm. In this class, we will create a ceramic wind chime which we will call The Soundwaver. We will build our Soundwavers while concentrating on our own heartbeat…. Putting our energy and life into your piece. |
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FIRE: Forgiveness
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Sign up for the online Webinar: $165
This is a 3 hour class. Alchemize your worries into a piece of ceramic handmade by you. How have you been feeling lately? Are you carrying what feels like the weight of the worldon your shoulders? Are you worried about the future, mother nature, your family or yourself? We’re living in a time where there’s a lot to find yourself thinking about. We’re holding a lot. More than a handful of us are dealing with so many things all at once - how can we manage to deal with things if more just comes onto our plates? We’ve learned that everything we’ve gone through is part of our story. We’ve learned that we should include it all - because all of it - the lights and the darks are what make us beautiful. We will focus ou energy through a prayer bowl, used to send prayers through smoke and vapor. |
WATER: Honoring
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PREMIER Date: January 23, 2021, 11 - 2 PM (Pacific)
Sign up for the online Premier class: $185 This is a 3 hour class. Water is life. Water is alive - it has a life of its own. Water has a memory - if you talk to it, it will remember and carry your voice. Using water at any ceremony honors its life giving powers but water also amplifies your voice and prayers into the ether. In this class you will make multiple handheld cups specifically designed to help you enhance your meditation and prayer practice with water. The set can be used in ceremony or gifted to another to help strengthen their meditation practice and connect in a special way to another person. Many voices carry many prayers - together, we can collectively help the world around us through meditation with water. |
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Individual Workshops and Bundles
EARTH: Hope Available NOW as a Webinar, $155
AIR: Centering Available NOW as a Webinar, $195
FIRE: Forgiveness Available NOW as a Webinar, $165
WATER: Honoring The workshop premiers on January 23, 2021, $185
At Home Retreat Weekend 1: Available Now as a Webinar
EARTH: Hope and AIR: Centering
(individually $350 ) $325 bundled
At Home Retreat Weekend 2: FIRE: Forgiveness is available Now as a Webinar
and WATER: Honoring has a Premier Date of January 23rd, 2021
(individually $350 ) $325 bundled
BOTH Weekends 1 AND 2, participating in all FOUR workshops
EARTH: Hope, AIR: Centering, FIRE: Forgiveness are available now as Webinars
and WATER: Honoring has a Premier Date of January 23rd, 2021
(individually $700) $600 bundled
Guild (Intentional Creativity Teachers) receive a reciprocal discount of $25 off each class.
($50 off for weekend bundles - $200 for entire series)
Payment plans are available. For information regarding payments email: info@lickinflames.com
International shipments may incur a discounting shipping charge in addition to the workshop fee.
Northern California residents will be welcomed to take part in the firing in person.
Scholarships are be available for those directly affected by Covid. Please email us and connect if this is you.
($50 off for weekend bundles - $200 for entire series)
Payment plans are available. For information regarding payments email: info@lickinflames.com
International shipments may incur a discounting shipping charge in addition to the workshop fee.
Northern California residents will be welcomed to take part in the firing in person.
Scholarships are be available for those directly affected by Covid. Please email us and connect if this is you.