Workshops, gatherings and online classes
I teach local classes in the spring, summer and fall months and I am also open to travelling and teaching private groups if there are people interested. If hosting a workshop is something you’d like to explore please contact me through email.
Many of my classes are taught as part of various earth skills gatherings. I choose these gatherings as a venue to teach because they promote a sense of community as well as promote other pathways to connect with the earth and each other, experiences that I feel are so important for everyone these days in our modern society.
Boulder, Utah
Join us in beautiful Boulder, Utah for this 3 1/2 day pottery workshop where Kayenta shares the process of making ancient style pottery from start to finish, harvesting the clay, processing, handbuilding, refining, painting and firing.
Each student will leave with all the knowledge and information to go through the process on their own at home and 2-3 pots they built, painted and fired during the class.
This workshop will be held in Boulder, Utah in the heart of the sandstone desert Anasazi country and bordering the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Don’t miss this one!
Dates: May 1-4, 2025
Location: Boulder, Utah
Cost: $450
Elkhorn earth skills gatherinng
Boulder, Utah
August 11-17
Elkhorn is a new earths skills gathering located in the high desert of beautiful Boulder, Utah - organized by myself, Kayenta.
There will be many classes and nature based skills offered and…
There will be pottery of course! To learn more about this gathering and to register go to www.elkhorngathering.com
Online Classes
*At this time live zoom class dates are suspended and only the wild clay processing video is available*
Part 1 - Wild clay processing
Part 2 -Hand-building techniques & corrugation
Part 3 -Mineral and organic paint and making brushes
Part 4 -Primitive pottery firing methods and techniques
Each class is $30
If you’d like to purchase the clay processing zoom class click the link below to make the payment and I will send a link to view the pre-recorded video. .
*These classes are recorded so if you missed the date or aren’t able to join please email me specifying which class you are interested in. Each recording or online zoom class is $30.
Anasazi State Park Museum
Join this workshop and learn how to identify and process clay, collect clay from the landscape and follow in the steps of the ancients refining, building, painting, and firing southern Utah wild clay.
Sign up early as this class is limited to 10 students and workshops have been filling up fast.
***This workshop is filled***
Edge of the Cedars State Park Mueum
Blanding, Utah
May 24-26, 2024
In this 3 day workshop we will discuss and practice ancient pottery making methods that were used in the 4 corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
The Edge of the Cedars Museum has one of the worlds most incredible collections of Ancestral Puebloan pottery and many other types of artifacts, tools and textiles from the region. Touring the museum and getting to see some of the backroom pottery will be a part of the workshop.
For this class we will be hand-building pottery with local wild clay, painting with materials from the landscape and then fire our pots in an Anasazi style trench kiln. Each student will leave with 2-3 functional pots to take and the knowledge to continue practicing at home.