Art for All | Hand-Building Ceramic Tiles with Beth Bowman and Jordan Tracy

Beth Bowman and Jordan Tracy (Clay Day LBC) will lead a hand-building ceramics workshop where attendees will design clay tiles using various surface design techniques and colorful glazes. Clay Day LBC, a non-profit city-wide mobile pottery studio, will fire all ceramic works in kilns after the workshop. Pieces will be ready for pickup within 3-4 weeks at Compound.

Art supplies are provided. No previous art-making experience necessary.

About Bowman Ceramics

Located in the heart of Long Beach, Bowman Ceramics is a handcrafted ceramics + workshop owned by artist Beth Bowman. A longtime floral designer, Beth began working with ceramics to explore a new innovative medium and fell in love with the slow process of the wheel and clay. Her designs are gracefully functional clay-ware that reflects a minimal aesthetic. Every piece of our collection is hand-thrown in the natural element of her home studio - which makes every ceramic piece unique and one-of-a-kind. Since starting Bowman Ceramics we have started to host workshops and personal/group ceramic classes to share our passion and technique with our community.

About Jordan Tracy and Clay Day LBC

Jordan Tracy is a visual artist and educator from Long Beach. She studied ceramics at Long Beach City and Cerritos College. She is the Founder, Executive Director, and Lead Teacher of Clay Day LBC. She loves the shock and awe of students seeing their finished and fired ceramic artwork for the first time.

In 2019 Clay Day LBC began as a volunteer-led after-school ceramics program at Cubberley K-8 in LBUSD. That program has since grown into a city-wide mobile pottery studio that brings the art of clay to underserved students in PreK-8th grade classrooms. Clay Day LBC’s mission is to ensure Long Beach kids have free and equitable access to the joys of ceramics during their school day.

Compound’s Art For All is a series of hands-on workshops that teach various artistic mediums and encourages a new way of making art that’s fun and engaging for the whole family. Participants will be able to learn drawing, collage, painting, performance, sculpture, ceramics, music-making, and much more.

Workshops are free and open to all thanks to this year’s sponsor, The Port of Long Beach, and a donation by The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation.

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