For Adults: clay AFFECTION, clay AFFAIR, clay DANCE, clay SCULPTURE

This is a foundational course to start off your relationship with clay. You'll first be introduced to basic techniques of pinching, coiling, hollowing and slab building. You'll have lots of fun fiddling around with that little lump of clay and get skilled at transforming it into what you wish to express. When you see your masterpieces emerge from the kiln in beautiful form, texture and colors, you'll experience a proudest moment of creation with a very personal artistic touch of yours.

Takeaway: you'll acquire the basic know-how and skills to express yourself in basic clay forms.

Fee: S$270 for 6 sessions, each 2.5 hrs (inclusive of all clay materials, glazing and firing)

This is when you deepen your love affair with clay through more advanced and a wider spectrum of hand-building techniques. You'll learn how to shape the clay more intimately with your magical touch. You'll also play with different clay bodies such as stoneware, paperclay, earthenware and white raku, and sense each of their characteristic feel and texture. Creativity freedom is emphasized, with close guidance provided to progress you towards greater creative freedom.

Takeaway: you'll appreciate a wider range of techniques and different clay bodies, from which you can develop your choice approach to your own style of pottery.

Fee: S$300 for 6 sessions, each 2.5 hrs (inclusive of all clay materials, glazing and firing)

Here's when you get a lot more serious with clay and learn the throwing technique. Throwing on a turning wheel and seeing a lump of clay rising up like a suave dancer is sensual and therapeutic. You will learn how to express your heart through the control of your hands to breathe life into clay. The end result is a creative expression of your desire into a unique pottery art piece. What a dance!

Takeaway: you'll take your first step towards mastering throwing and to go on to create endless possibilities of an art form unique to you alone.

Fee: S$330 for 6 sessions, each 2.5 hrs (inclusive of all clay materials, glazing and firing)

This is a new 2012 course on Ceramic Sculpture taught by Mr Chew Seow Phuang. Sculpture brings you into a whole new world of expression with 3D form, shape and contour, texture and colours. You are required to have basic pottery grounding (Clay AFFECTION + AFFAIR) prior to attending this course.

Takeaway: you will learn innovative techniques and skills for creative freeform sculpting with clay.

Fee: S$420 for 6 sessions, each 2.5 hrs (inclusive of all clay materials, glazing and firing)

Wondering what gifts to buy for birthday, wedding, house-warming, shower party...? How about being unique and make your very own gifts using Clay, with a personal touch? You will be guided to design and create gifts of a highly creative and personalized nature. No experience with clay is necessary. We provide the clay and glaze materials, the tools and instruction, you simply create with your heart and hands. Allow 2 weeks for glazing and firing. Suitable for both kids and adults.

Fee: S$80 for 2 sessions, each 2.5 hrs (inclusive of all clay materials, galzing and firing)

This is a unique mentored program for anyone who is keen to embark on creating a clay masterpiece of your very own idea. You bring your imaginations and your good self and we'll support you with step-by-step guidance and provide you with all the materials, tools and facilities to help you create your dreams with your own hands. Your project may be anything from creating clay clocks for every room in your home, a hanging wind chime, garden decorations, standing statement of arts by your door, your own handmade wedding gifts for friends, etc, etc. There are endless other possibilities. We welcome you to discuss your ideas with us and we'll customize a guidance program to help you realize them.

Fee: depends on the complexity of your project.

This multi-session workshop is designed to introduce participants or students to the art of pottery. It's experientially fun and engaging, with an experimental dimension to encourage participants to explore concepts in the process of clay creation. The workshop is a 4-session program.

Fee: (inclusive of all clay materials, glazing and firing; excluding venue cost)
    - Group of 10 or less: S$1200 for 4 sessions, each 2.5 hrs
    - Group of 11-20: S$2000 for 4 sessions, each 2.5 hrs

This program is a family creative clay project for recreation and bonding. The team could be as small as an adult-child pair (e.g. father and daughter) or an entire family of three generations! Depending on the project selection, we may advise a combination of techiques and art media. The key idea is to (a) present a focus (e.g. to create a fountain for the living room), (b) facilitate the family members in the planning process, and (c) guide them in the hands-on creation stage. Often, the outcome itself is a fantastic experiential high for all in the family. The togetherness captured in the family masterpiece would live on for generations to come in the family.

Fee: S$1200 for a family of 4 based on 3 sessions (each 2.5 hr)

If you are game for a unique and memorable party of any kind - birthday, anniversary, family/school gathering, farewell or welcome get-together, etc, try our new concept of Clay Party @ The Tapestry Room, Bukit Batok Civil Service Clubhouse. Everyone comes together to interact, have fun, and create some art pieces that will mark the significance of that day for a lifetime. Snacks and drinks can be arranged.

Fee: S$400 (up to 10 pax); $600 (11-20 pax); $900 (21-30 pax) for a 3-hour party