Community Clay Connections

Community Clay Connections offers clay-based art classes that focus on mindfulness, increase emotional and mental health, and help students feel connected to themselves and one another. The classes are designed and taught by an experienced ceramic art teacher with a long history in social work, resulting in a creative and safe space where students can explore their feelings. All of our classes have the students start with a lump of clay and end with adding color to the piece, so they get the entire experience in one class taught through the filter of a mindful skill like mediation or gratitude practice. The students will participate in a before and after feelings chart to evaluate how practicing the mindful skill impacted their feelings. Once the class is complete, the work with be finished in a kiln, wrapped, individually bagged and labeled (with the mindful skill reminder magnet included) and returned to the classroom within 3 weeks. We teach students about emotions and how to regulate them in a fun and creative ways while also giving them a rare experience to create a piece of ceramic art that will last forever.