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Clay Handbuilding Workshop with Hilary Walsh (LA)
Clay Handbuilding Workshop with Hilary Walsh (LA)
Clay Handbuilding Workshop with Hilary Walsh (LA)

Clay Handbuilding Workshop with Hilary Walsh (LA)

A NICKEY KEHOE EVENT

$150

Saturday, Sept 7th (pickup week of 9/23)
10am - 12pm
Registration is limited to 15 

Join us for a Saturday morning clay handbuilding workshop with our dear friend and Ojai-based ceramicist Hilary Walsh. 

This beginner-friendly class will explore handbuilding to create spice dishes, salt cellars, jewelry catchalls and decorative objet using coiling, pinching, and slab techniques. These methods are essential to form-making and remain the same as those used by early peoples to create primitive forms of pottery found all across Mezo, African, Hellenic, and Middle Eastern cultures.

Participants will create 1-3 pieces, depending on complexity, in their choice of black clay or reddish brown terracotta. Completed pieces will be fired off-site with no glazing and available for pickup the week of 9/23. Participants may also have their pieces mailed at request.

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Informed by an interest in raw materials, ancestral forms, the female figure, and birds, Hilary Walsh uses ceramics and sculpture to create objects as both things of beauty and representations of cultural motifs. Working within age-old modalities like hand coiling and carving clay while using primitive tools, and while using resources thoughtfully and responsibly, Hilary looks backwards as a means of looking forward. This approach is deeply place-based and simultaneously is informed and inspired by traditions and practices from around the globe. Hilary is a California born native, based in Ojai, raised on the east coast. Upon graduation from college in NY, Walsh spend twenty plus years with a career in fashion photography with strong side passion for ceramics.  After a decade of ceramics based classes and workshops, she made the break from photography to full time clay in 2022. 


View more of Hilary’s work at @hilarybwalsh

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All household and small fine art and vintage items may be picked up in-store or shipped domestically and internationally via UPS Ground.

For international orders, please allow 48-72 hours to process before shipping.

All large and fragile items including NK Collection pieces and vintage are eligible for shop or warehouse pick up as well as nationwide premium White Glove Delivery service which includes blanket wrapping and inside placement of all furniture pieces. 

In-Store Pick Up
Store pick ups are available for pickup Monday-Friday 10am-5pm at:

Nickey Kehoe
7266 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Warehouse Pick Up
Larger items such as NK Collection and vintage may require pick up Monday-Friday 9am to 3pm at our warehouse, located at:

Nickey Kehoe Warehouse
1901 E. 7th Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90021

Please note that clients or third party couriers must provide their own packing materials. We are unable to provide packing materials or blanket wrapping, unless previously arranged with a salesperson.

White Glove Delivery
Large and fragile items including NK Collection pieces and vintage are eligible for local and nationwide delivery. Please select "White Glove Delivery" at checkout to request service. For questions, please contact webshop@nickeykehoe.com or 323.954-9300. Quotes provided online and in store are valid for 30 days.

International Shipments

All household and small fine art and vintage items are shipped internationally via UPS. Duties, taxes and UPS shipment costs are displayed at checkout. For international orders, please allow 48-72 hours to process before shipment.

We are unable to ship large & fragile vintage, furniture and fine art pieces outside of the continental US; however, you may arrange delivery to your domestic freight forwarder or receiving warehouse. Contact webshop@nickeykehoe.com for additional questions.

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