Rain City Clay's 1 Year Anniversary!

Rain City Clay celebrated its One Year Anniversary this April!

On April 1st, we hosted an open studio event with wheel throwing sessions, a station to decorate giant clay raindrops, along with snacks and beverages for people to enjoy while they socialized and explored the studio! We had a great turnout of new people eager and excited to try clay, in addition to friendly familiar faces who came to support this grand milestone.

We hosted three, 1.5 hour, free try clay sessions! Our skilled instructors walked participants through throwing a simple cylinder on the wheel. With 16 people per session, we welcomed 48 curious clay participants! We met new faces from near and far - it was great to connect with our surrounding neighborhood community and reach those from neighboring Seattle cities. It was also fun to see current and past students bring their family and friends to share their love of clay with them.

Deb Schwartzkopf crafted 3 big raindrop sculptures for people to decorate with underglaze.

Anika Major & Joe Wilkinson decorate the raindrops

These will be fired in the Soda kiln and hung in the RCC Practice Room!

It was great to have representatives from the Washington Clay Arts Association at the event to talk about their fantastic organization. The WCA connects clay artists across Washington State through educational, professional, and social events.

We gave away some reclaim paver tiles! These special garden paver tiles are made with clay and glaze waste generated at RCC and Rat City Studios. They are made by RCS/RCC staff using plaster molds with designs created by various past staff and visiting artists of Rat City Studios. This tile reclaim process helps us turn what would otherwise be waste, into something beautiful!

Thank you to everyone who attended our 1 Year Anniversary - It was very special and we felt the love!