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Handbuild Your Own Pair of Mugs: Pottery Workshop at Hartlot Happening


A work table with a mug of coffee and two mugs in the process of being hand built

Join us for our first creative gathering of 2026 in the relaxed and inspiring space of Hartlot Happening. In this workshop, we're celebrating the simple and timeless beauty of the most utilitarian clay object of all: the mug! Each participant will handbuild a pair of unique mugs, to integrate into your own daily rituals of sipping coffee or tea, to share, or to gift.

Guests will learn traditional handbuilding pottery techniques, including the process of rolling a clay slab, working with patterns and templates, making handles, constructing and shaping the vessel, assembling and joining mug elements. The workshop is accessible to all and appropriate for all levels of experience.


Hosted at Hartlot Happening


Sunday, February 1, 2026


10 AM - 1:00 PM


639 Hartlot Road


Elbridge, NY 13060



All materials are provided and no prior experience with clay is necessary. We’ll close the afternoon with a seasonal lunch thoughtfully prepared by workshop hosts, and coffee and other earthy sips from Milkhouse Roastery.


After the workshop, your mugs will dry slowly until ready for a first firing. Once bisque fired, your pieces will be glazed (a selection of glaze samples will be available during the workshop for you to choose from) and fired again. After the last firing, your mugs are ready to pick up at Milkhouse Roastery with a complimentary cup of coffee.


We can’t wait for you to sip coffee or teac from a mug shaped by your own hands…




Meet your workshop facilitators


Workshop host Lora Taub at table with a clay pot

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 utilitarian pottery for the table, home, and garden and all the spaces in between.



Workshop host Becky Muir with flowers from her farm to use in pottery workshop

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.


Workshop host Mike Foster with a bundle of Fall leaves and stems harvested for pottery workshop.



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.




Gift cards for this workshop and future pottery happenings are available here.

 
 
 
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