Clay Club
for Kids
Clay club is an inclusive, child-centric learning opportunity, offering gently guided creative expression, inspired by nature.
Multi Disciplinary Monday
Wheel Throwing & Hand Building 10 week course Join us every Monday for 2.5 hours of clay play fun! This course offers homeschooling families, a unique multidisciplinary program. We spend half of our session, exploring wheel throwing techniques, as we learn how to throw a variety of vessel forms, learning how to center, and progressing through turning and glazing of our work. Within each session we also explore, this wonderfully immersive medium, with our hands, gently guided, through a variety of hand building techniques, developing our connection to our hands and our own innate creativity. This program allows children to play and learn together, in a supported environment, under gently guided facilitation. Your child will develop their creative confidence, as they are empowered to express themselves with clay. Ages 7 years and over MONDAYS July 8th - September 9th, 2024 9:30am - 12:00pm |
Multi Disciplinary Tuesday
Wheel Throwing & Hand Building 10 week course This multidisciplinary program explores the fundamentals of both hand building and wheel throwing, tailored to kids 7 years and up. During this course you will learn the basics of how to center the clay and create simply forms on the wheel, as well as foundational hand building techniques, as we create simple creatures and other hand built forms. All materials provided. All work will be fired and glazed. Clay club offers a whole family learning opportunity and welcomes parents to book in and learn alongside their children. Ages 7 yrs and up. TUESDAYS July 9 - September 10, 2024 3:45pm - 5:45pm |
Zephyr MaramaAfter more than 20 years away, Zephyr Marama, returns to the Butter Factory to share her passion for ceramic art. Having previously studied ceramics here, with renowned ceramic artists, Barry Tate, Rowly Drysdale, Andrew Bryant and Michael Ciavarella. For the past 5 years, Zephyr has shared an immersive, child-centric learning opportunity for children and their families, to connect through creative opportunities, with a focus on the inherent therapeutic and expressive qualities of clay. Inspired by her children to seek out a way to connect with other families in a creative way, Zephyr created, Clay Club for Kids. Zephyr and her young family, return to the Sunshine Coast, after 20yrs in Victoria where further study has seen her develop skills across a variety of creative disciplines, including fine arts, fashion and textile design, and ceramic art.
Zephyr has a Bachelor of Applied Science - Fashion Technology from RMIT, an Advanced Diploma of Ceramics from CSIT and a Certificate II in Fine Arts from CSIT. Zephyr has enjoyed a career in the fashion industry, spanning over 10 years, working for various Australian brands, and creating under her own brand. During her time exploring textiles and fashion, Zephyr has traversed creative expression through exploration of botanical printing and natural dyeing, as well as honing her technical abilities as a spec writer, technical fashion illustrator, production manager and consultant and stylist. Zephyr’s interests shifted towards a more environmentally conscious and sustainable vision for her love of creating textiles and fashion. Creating Young and Magic atelier, utilising diverted dead stock textiles, hand dyeing and printing unique textiles using natural dyes and a technique called, botanical printing. This allowed Zephyr to create everything in house, in a slow fashion model, suited to conscious creation. Zephyr joins our team of talented facilitators, offering a range of immersive and gently guided, opportunities for children and their families to engage their creativity. For the past 2 years, Zephyr, has developed and taught the Clay Club for kids program, at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts centre, as well as our ‘intro to hand building’ for adults. |