Building Space & Intention: A Clay Handbuilding Workshop

Join ceramic artist Angelique Scott for a hands-on clay workshop exploring architecture, intention, and the built environment through sculptural form. Using beginner-friendly handbuilding techniques, participants will design and create a small architectural structure inspired by community needs, spatial storytelling, and Afrofuturistic imagination.

Through guided prompts, we’ll consider what our spaces hold, who they serve, and how design can shape belonging and possibility.

Blending foundational design principles such as form, balance, proportion, and texture with conversation and making, this workshop invites you to engage clay as a tool for reflection and creative expression.

Designed for creatives, architects, students, and anyone curious about craft and the built environment, this workshop is welcoming, thoughtful, and hands-on. No prior experience required.

Participants Will:

• Learn foundational clay handbuilding techniques including pinch, coil, and slab
• Explore architecture through form, texture, and sculptural storytelling
• Engage with Afrofuturistic design perspectives and Black spatial imagination
• Create a small architectural sculpture to take home

What’s Included:

• All materials provided
• Light refreshments including a glass of wine (NA beverages available)

Capacity limited to 30 participants
Registration required

Angelique Scott is a Afro-Caribbean-American artist and educator whose artistic practice is rooted in intergenerational traditions of care and craftsmanship. Drawing from Afro-diasporic material culture, she works primarily with clay, glass, fiber, cowrie shells, and indigo to create both functional and decorative objects. Angelique received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Art Education and Craft & Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Scott has completed studio residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Vermont Studio Center, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont, Hambidge, Ibura Arts at Blue Light Junction, and the Skopelos Foundation in Greece. She served on the Board of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as the youngest onsite liaison, co-organizing the largest clay conference in the U.S. She currently hosts clay workshops along the East Coast and maintains a vibrant studio-based practice investigating spirituality, wellness, and communal healing through craft.

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Host or Publisher The American Institute of Architects