Workshops
Botanical Watercolor Collage
with Suzy Kopf
September 10 | 6-9pm
Experiment with collage and watercolor techniques in this fun project-centered workshop to create a botanical collage.
No drawing or art experience necessary!
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Friday Nights | 6-8pm
Level: Beginner and beyond
Ages 13+
All materials and fees are included in the class price, and our professional artists will handle the glazing and trimming.
This is a workshop for absolute beginners or those in need of a refresh!
Have you always wanted to try the pottery wheel? Can't stop thinking about The Great Pottery Thrown Down? We have a solution!
Our experienced instructors will teach you how to center clay, bring up the walls, and shape it into your very own pot. Each student will get to keep two hand-thrown pieces to take home and cherish. Sign up now to discover the joy of creating something beautiful with your own hands.
Tie back long hair, wear comfy clothes you don’t mind getting muddy, trim long fingernails, and bring a bevvie.
Pots are ready for pick up 2-3 weeks after the workshop. You have 30 days to pick up your work once it’s ready.
Cancellation Policy
You may cancel up to 72 hours before your class start date to receive a full refund or a credit, minus a $20 cancellation fee. Transfers are not allowed.
Cancellations made outside of the 72 hour window are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Once a class has started, no refunds, credits, or transfers can be issued. Cancellations must be delivered via email to hello@specklestudio.com.
Thursday | September 10 | 6-9pm
Ages: 18+
Level: Beginner and beyond
Instructor: Suzy Kopf
Experiment with collage and watercolor techniques in this fun project-centered workshop to create a botanical collage. Participants will be guided to draw inspiration from the natural world as well as international arts and crafts history to create plant inspired collages.
No drawing or art experience is necessary to get a great result with this technique which invites cutting and tracing. We’ll cover color mixing with watercolors, discuss how a limited color palette can achieve a unified result, best practices for clean gluing and what makes a strong design composition. All art making materials will be provided. Participants should feel confident handling an exacto blade or have the option to do the entire workshop with scissors. Any children under 14 will be required to sign a waiver to use an exacto blade.
Artist Bio: Suzy Kopf (she/her) is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist who examines the paper ephemera of midcentury consumer culture to explore the enduring mythos of the American Dream through watercolor, collage, and mixed-media installation, maintaining a "no waste" practice built on secondhand materials and self-made botanical ink and paint. Formerly a professor at Johns Hopkins and MICA, she now works exclusively with adult learners while focusing on her own studio practice, and in 2023 returned to San Francisco after sixteen years on the East Coast, where she lives with her partner and two rescue dogs, Theodore Roosevelt and Penny Lane. She has exhibited across the U.S. and Canada, including at the Turchin Center, Delaware Contemporary, Spring/Break Art Fair, and the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., holds degrees from Eugene Lang College, Parsons, and MICA, and is a 2026 Liana Paredes Fellow at the Hillwood Museum.
Cancellation Policy
You may cancel up to 72 hours before your class start date to receive a full refund or a credit, minus a $20 cancellation fee. Transfers are not allowed.
Cancellations made outside of the 72 hour window are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Once a class has started, no refunds, credits, or transfers can be issued. Cancellations must be delivered via email to hello@specklestudio.com.
Saturday | September 12th | 6-9pm
Level: Beginner and beyond
Ages 16+
Instructor: Holly Coley
This is a workshop for absolute beginners. All materials are provided.
Imagine it: That delightful first cup of morning coffee, made and steaming away in a creation of your very own!
Join us in our fantastically beautiful studio for a night of hand building mugs and pour overs! Under the expert guidance of our studio owner, Holly Coley, you’ll learn how to build a slab mug and pour over from start to finish. You’ll get to paint and carve your mug and pour over any way you like, and then afterwards, we will glaze and fire your work for you. It’ll be ready for pick-up in 2-3 weeks and you’ll have 30 days to pick it up.
When you come in, tie back long hair, wear comfy clothes you don’t mind getting muddy, trim long fingernails, and bring a bevvie. Oh, and of course - be ready to let your creativity run wild!
Cancellation Policy
You may cancel up to 72 hours before your class start date to receive a full refund or a credit, minus a $25 cancellation fee. Transfers are not allowed.
Cancellations made outside of the 72 hour window are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Once a class has started, no refunds, credits, or transfers can be issued. Cancellations must be delivered via email to hello@specklestudio.com.
