Spend six weeks making the small serving pieces that bring a table together — tasting trays, spoon rests, condiment dishes, catchalls, and the long narrow platters that hold four little desserts and a fork. Working with plaster and MDF molds, you'll be able to make repeatable forms with crisp edges and clean silhouettes, which means you can build an actual set rather than six pieces that almost match. This class is beginner friendly, but open to all skill levels.

We'll start by learning to roll and compress even slabs, then move into the molds: drape and press forms in plaster, and MDF hump and sled molds for ovals, rounded rectangles, and soft-cornered shapes. You'll learn how to design a rim that reads as intentional, how to raise a shallow wall so a tray holds its contents, how to add feet and undersides that finish the piece, and how to keep a slab flat through drying and firing — the part that makes or breaks this kind of work. We'll also cover making your own simple molds.

Because these forms are so minimal, the details are critical. We'll spend time on surface: which of our 65+ in-house designed glazes suit a quiet shape, how to leave a raw clay edge, and how to glaze a set so the pieces belong to each other. Ashley leads through group demonstrations, discussion of example pieces, and one-on-one feedback, with firing and glazing happening throughout the class.