We’re excited to share a first look at our 2026 workshop offerings at The Hambidge Center—an evolving series of immersive, retreat-style experiences that invite deep engagement with process, material, and place. Confirmed workshops include:

• Jan 1–4 – New Year’s Anagama Firing with Vernon Smith (Sold Out)

• March 19–22 – Creative Process Retreat with Megan Huntz

• April 9–12 – Functional Clay Vessels with Martha Cook

• June 11–14 – Handbuilt Ceramic Memory Houses with Lydia Thompson

• August 9–14 – Hand-Turned Ceramic Pottery with Paul Briggs

• October 15–18 – Raku and Alternative Firing Techniques with Vicente Garcia

Additional workshops will be added soon, with planned topics including Illustrated Ceramics (Keok Lim), Quilting, Botanical Illustration, Photography, Memoir Writing, Sgraffito, Reading and Wellness, Plein Air Watercolor, Thrown and Altered Ceramics, and Indigo Dyeing.

Full workshop descriptions and registration links will be available here in January. We look forward to sharing more as the 2026 workshop season continues to unfold. To learn more about the structure of our workshop retreats and how they differ from our free (one-day) community workshops, visit our workshop page.