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Ever wanted to make a goblet fit for a medieval feast, or perhaps a slightly suspicious ritual? 🏰🕯️
Join Mercy Neumark for an approximately 4-hour hands-on pottery class where you’ll explore the history of goblets, from ancient ceremonial cups to the elaborate drinking vessels of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Then you’ll get to build your own using hand-building techniques like slabs, coils, stems, handles, and sculptural details.
Create something historical, fantastical, or delightfully strange.
No pottery experience necessary. Just come ready to get muddy and feel free to bring snacks and drinks! 🏺✨
About your teacher:
Since 1998, Mercy Neumark has been researching and recreating historical ceramics along with making whimsical pots. Her work follows the graphic linework and boldly colorful aesthetic found in historical sources, from medieval marginalia to vintage Max Fleischer cartoons to Mid Century aesthetics, combined with more modern styles like new school animation and Japanese manga. She crafts pieces that are both functional and decorative, flavored often with sardonic humor and an awareness of sociopolitical inequities, balancing light imagery with heavy subjects into a unified expression whether it's making functional ware or making meaningful objects, you’ll find Mercy Neumark happily at work in her studio mostly throwing clay.
Mercy's first 15 years of work spanned a deep dive into pre-17th century ceramic recreations, focusing on a variety of cultures, techniques and forms of dinner and cookware. Anthropomorphic vessels and functional wares dominated her work, sold through historical reenactors clubs throughout the US.
A Note About the Process:
Working with clay can be humbling and rewards patience and care. Our instructors will guide you through each step to help your pieces succeed, but pottery always carries a bit of mystery. While well-built pieces usually fire beautifully, the occasional surprise can still happen, and that's simply part of the process. Every potter, no matter their experience, has had pieces come out differently than planned. If that happens, we hope it encourages you to keep learning, refining your skills, and making more :)
Questions? Email hello@makersandclay.com
Ever wanted to make a goblet fit for a medieval feast, or perhaps a slightly suspicious ritual? 🏰🕯️
Join Mercy Neumark for an approximately 4-hour hands-on pottery class where you’ll explore the history of goblets, from ancient ceremonial cups to the elaborate drinking vessels of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Then you’ll get to build your own using hand-building techniques like slabs, coils, stems, handles, and sculptural details.
Create something historical, fantastical, or delightfully strange.
No pottery experience necessary. Just come ready to get muddy and feel free to bring snacks and drinks! 🏺✨
About your teacher:
Since 1998, Mercy Neumark has been researching and recreating historical ceramics along with making whimsical pots. Her work follows the graphic linework and boldly colorful aesthetic found in historical sources, from medieval marginalia to vintage Max Fleischer cartoons to Mid Century aesthetics, combined with more modern styles like new school animation and Japanese manga. She crafts pieces that are both functional and decorative, flavored often with sardonic humor and an awareness of sociopolitical inequities, balancing light imagery with heavy subjects into a unified expression whether it's making functional ware or making meaningful objects, you’ll find Mercy Neumark happily at work in her studio mostly throwing clay.
Mercy's first 15 years of work spanned a deep dive into pre-17th century ceramic recreations, focusing on a variety of cultures, techniques and forms of dinner and cookware. Anthropomorphic vessels and functional wares dominated her work, sold through historical reenactors clubs throughout the US.
A Note About the Process:
Working with clay can be humbling and rewards patience and care. Our instructors will guide you through each step to help your pieces succeed, but pottery always carries a bit of mystery. While well-built pieces usually fire beautifully, the occasional surprise can still happen, and that's simply part of the process. Every potter, no matter their experience, has had pieces come out differently than planned. If that happens, we hope it encourages you to keep learning, refining your skills, and making more :)
Questions? Email hello@makersandclay.com