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Mishima

with Amy Lee

Date: June 6, 2026

Time: 9 am - 4 pm

Location: Virginia Wesleyan Univ

Workshop Description

Amy lives in Norfolk and has had her hands in clay for over 30 years. She is a professional who sells her work, gives workshops, teaches at local clay classes, and writes about pottery. She is excited to teach us the Mishima technique using underglazes, plus impart her knowledge of how underglazes work. This will be a hands-on workshop.

Participants will bring:

2-3 leather-hard to hard-leather-hard pieces made from a smooth clay body (No grog/sand preferred, but this process is still doable on all clay bodies). The toothy nature of the clay will effect line quality) maximum 6”tall or 6”wide
Pattern ideas they would like to try (patterns will also be provided)
A fine point Sharpie Marker preferably in blue ink.
Two soft bristle brushes - one for wax - one for underglaze.
Multiple small decorating brushes.
Any Mishima, sgraffito, or needle tools to work with. Otherwise, Amy will bring tools she makes for purchase for $15 each. (cash on day of workshop)

Adding outline designs to your clay projects can be so much fun. Once you create the outline and add the underglaze you can bisque then glaze as is. Or once bisqued you can color in your design with different colors of underglaze.

CDA will provide the underglaze used for outlining and will have some small samples of underglaze to take home to use on your bisques piece.

Check out Amy’s website: https://amyleepottery.com/

Total participants: 20 (we will keep a waiting list once the slots are filled)

Fee: $40 for CDA members, $75for non-members

Member: $40

Non-member: $75

Past Workshops and Demos

SODA FIRING WORKSHOP by Ray Wood

THROWING TALL WORKSHOP

Noah Hughey-Commers spent the day demonstrating some of his throwing techniques and coaching participants in challenging themselves to push their throwing skills from using more clay, taller cylinders, dryer throwing and pushing the clay to its limits.

BIRDHOUSE WORKSHOP

Pam Gray taught the group how she makes birdhouses. She starts by texturing slabs then cutting out the sides, floor and roof pieces. She shared her technique for joining the pieces and cutting the entry hole for specific types of birds.

KATIE MALONEY WORKSHOP

Katie led the workshop participants through her methods of incorporating animal figures onto her pottery. Participants then created their own interpretation of these methods.

CLAY MOSAIC WORKSHOP

Ginger Jenkot shared slides of the history of mosaic, then guided participants on how to make their picture "mosaic ready". Each participant then created their custom mosaic piece.