Botanical Imprint Pottery Workshop

In the studio at Schoolhouse Farms. Photo by Becky Muir.

"The earth, always offers something perfect right here, right now."

--Louesa Roebuck and Sarah Lonsdale, Foraged Flora

Learn to handcraft a one-of-a-kind ceramic piece imprinted with flowers, stems and botanical elements, for your table, wall, or garden.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to work with hand-building pottery techniques and create botanical impressions in clay using local flora collected with care from Schoolhouse Farms in Borodino. You’ll explore how to compose and imprint flora into clay, play with texture and form, and shape your own nature-inspired ceramic piece — all while reconnecting with a slower, more intuitive way of creating in the relaxed environment of Hartlot Happening.

All materials are provided and no prior experience with clay is necessary. All that is required is your interest in getting your hands dirty, filling them with earth and beauty and shaping something lasting from the fleeting beauty of the season.

We’ll close the afternoon with coffee and other earthy sips from Milkhouse Roastery and thoughtfully prepared light seasonal fare.

After the workshop, pieces will be dried, bisque fired, glazed and then fired again in the kilns at Hartlot Happening. Once fired, your pieces will be available for pick up or delivery by mail. Participants can expect to receive their fired work approximately 3 weeks after the workshop.

Space is limited to 12 attendees.

Sunday, July 20, 2025

10 am - 1 pm

$100 per person

Hosted at Hartlot Happening

639 Hartlot Road

Elbridge, NY 13060

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Meet your workshop facilitators

Lora Taub is a studio potter and the co-owner of Hartlot Happening. A transplant from Southern California, and documentarian by training, she turns to clay and the industrial and natural elements of her surroundings to create connections and a sense of place in Central New York. She makes handbuilt and wheel thrown functional pottery for the table, home, and garden and all the spaces in between.

Becky Muir lives on a small farm in Borodino where she farms flowers and grows quince in all their glory, and tells the visual stories of her environment through photography. Her photographs invite viewers to notice the transitory and often exquisite beauty of blooms and branches foraged from farm, field, and hedgerow, in various states of emergence and fading.

Mike Foster is an artist whose understanding of and attention to growing and making is expressed in the really good coffee he roasts and shares with the community at Milkhouse Roastery in Marcellus. He shares with Becky an endless fascination and care for cultivating and collecting plants and local wild clay through their In The Hedgerow collaboration.