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Porcelain workshops in the USA

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Hands-on porcelain workshop
Antoinette's pottery studio in Saltillo, Mississippi.

July 20-26, 2025
$867

(may split in 3 payments of $289 each)

10 students maximum (6 wheels available)
Choose to work in hand-building or wheel-throwing
 Loaded but fun porcelain workshop.

​Antoinette has all the equipment needed to teach potters how to control porcelain (the Diva of clay) with hand-building and wheel-throwing projects.
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​ Contact Antoinette if you have questions. 
Scroll down to register soon to secure your place! There is limited place.
​See detail of workshop below.


Read carefully before choosing the payment method. 
There are 10 spaces available, regardless of if you choose hand building or wheel throwing. Let her know which one you chose. She will respond with an email to acknowledge your registration, and you will be informed about your next payments if you choose to pay in 3 installments.
Antoinette will close registration when 10 persons registered and announce that the classes are filled. 
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**All payments are non-refundable. Make sure you can attend this workshop before you register**​

Hands-on workshop July 20-26, 2025 (FULL PAYMENT)

$867.00
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Hands-on workshop July 20-26, 2025 (1st payment)

$289.00
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Hands-on workshop July 20-26, 2025 (2nd payment)

$289.00
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Hands-on workshop July 20-26, 2025 (3rd payment)

$289.00
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Workshop  details below

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Studio and workshop arrangements (available to download in PDF below)
Meet and greet:  Sunday, January 26 (5-30 pm -8.30 pm)
We start with an informal meet and greet. 
Supper will be served.  Arrive at around 5-30 pm. Please inform Antoinette if you have a guest for supper, to make provision for enough food.  
We will have a  discussion of porcelain/pottery in general and get to know each other.
Please bring images of your work or bring a piece of pottery along.
If you want Antoinette to evaluate your pottery, it would be in a group setting.
Potters will receive : 
10lbs clay included in the workshop. If more clay is needed it can be purchased in the studio. 
A set of studio tools ( suitable for porcelain) to use for the week and to be returned after the workshop.

Wheel throwing involves the following: 
  • Pinching to get to know the clay
  • Throwing specific bowl forms
  • Alter bowls
  • Practice on the wheel. 
  • If time permits, wheel-throwing potters can do some of the hand building techniques

Hand building involves the following: 
  • Pinching to get to know the clay
  • Slab building an envelope bowl
  • Create a build bowl ( if time permits)
  • Practice hand building techniques
  • Some potters will do both hand building and wheel throwing. 
Antoinette will lead with demonstrations and potters will follow the procedures.
By Wednesday night most of the making should be complete, but you will keep the work covered while altering and carving takes place.
The studio is heat and air controlled.  Beware of clay drying too fast. Potters will reclaim their clay throughout the week. 
 
The  timeline:

The timeline is flexible and may be adjusted, depending on the group dynamics. 
Sunday:

General get to know each other 
Discuss pots in my collection and pottery in general

Monday:
Discuss the character of porcelain

Demonstrate a pinch pot.
All potters work along to get to know and understand porcelain as the clay medium – this is especially important because as you go back home, some goes to a humid, and others goes back to very dry conditions. You will learn how  porcelain clay dries and how to manipulate and control the drying process, until it is ready to go into the kiln. Remember the Porcelain Diva has her own way!
I do recommend that you finish a few pinch pots, however, the pinch bowls should not keep from making your wheel thrown pots; move on if needed.
There is a lot of pinching involved in all my altering, especially in the altering process of either hand build or wheel-thrown pots. 

Demo of wheel throwing:
I will demonstrate a V-shape bowl and if time permits, a U-shape bowl. These are the basics from which I begin my sculpted vessels. Pay attention to the design inside and outside. You do not want your objects to slump in the fire.
Practice these forms and keep one to be trimmed and altered. 
Demo of hand building:
I will also demonstrate how to throw slabs. (discuss slabs) Hand-builders will make a V-bowl and/or a U-bowl and sculpted envelope and practice to make these into objects. Keep one of each. Slabs for the envelope sculpted bowl.

Tuesday:
Demo:
Porcelain tools/making and buying.
Trimming right side up.
Join and alter the envelope
First altering of bowls (both groups)
Wheel throwing checklist:
Keep your work covered
Keep practicing wheel-throwing
Begin trimming right-side up. (afternoon)
Finish pinch bowls .
Hand builders checklist:
Finish pinch bowls
Finish basic V and U shape bowls
Join the envelope elements and begin to alter.

Wednesday:
Demo: Altering and carving porcelain
Throw wide bowl or tall bottle
Review characteristics of porcelain

Hand builders and wheel thrower checklist
Continue working on 2 bowls and the envelope vase. Altering and carving.
Your work is entering a critical period in which it may want to crack; make sure you have it well covered.

Thursday:
Demo: altering and carving
Question and answering.
All potters work on their projects simultaneously
Practice the various techniques.
Getting pieces finished

Friday:
Finishing of all pieces
Antoinette will demonstrate on request throughout the week. 
Answer questions

Friday by 3 pm all work goes into the bisque fire
Cleaning of studio return of tools and equipment. 
Friday night: 
Antoinette presents a slide show, more questions answered and the group visit and eat together. The group decide how supper will be done. Potluck or eat out. 
Saturday
Discuss firing and glazing techniques
Discuss cracking

Pick-up bisqued work, final questions, and answers
Good buys around noon.
Group photo

 Studio rules
The studio is open every day by 8 am - coffee in the kitchen
Classes  9-5 every day, with a break for lunch between 12-1 pm - we will order food. Everyone pay for their own (Venmo is available to make it easy)
The studio will close at 6.30 p.m. That will allow you to practice and work independently for 1.30 hours every night Monday-Thursday.  It is required that there are AT LEAST 2 potters working. Antoinette will NOT be one of the two.

Food:
You are responsible for your own breakfast, lunch  and dinner, with the exception of Sunday night.
Please make sure that Antoinette knows about allergies.  Your guest is welcome to Sunday supper, but please be sure to let us know.

The kitchen is available to prepare your own salad or a sandwich and anytime you want to eat together as a group. 

Photographs and video clips:
You are allowed to take those. Please share it with me, since I use it for promotional purposes. If you share it on social media, please tag me.
Koos will also take images and video clips throughout the week. If anyone does not want to be included in the imaging, let him know upfront. If you stay silent I consider it as a confirmation from you that it is okay.
Boarding
Try to stay in a hotel either downtown Tupelo or on the northern side of Mainstreet. These hotels will bring you within a15-minute drive to Antoinettes’ studio in Saltillo in the heart of business.

​Anyone that has special needs, please let Antoinette know so that she can be on the lookout for your needs.

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**All payments are non refundable. Make sure you can attend this workshop before you register**
Please scroll through the whole page to learn more and if you still have questions Contact Antoinette
Antoinette has traveled extensively in America to present workshops. She presented porcelain workshops to college students, art and craft institutions and private studios. She also presents arts integrated workshops to school children and other communities in Mississippi through the grants program of MAC. You can contact her to request a workshop. She schedules her programs 1-2 years ahead of time.

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Porcelain potters in Antoinette's studio in Saltillo Mississippi

Traveling and housing options for Antoinette Saltillo studio workshops

Saltillo is 4 miles north of Tupelo, Mississippi. There is a direct flight from Nashville airport to Tupelo Regional Airport with Contour. Rent-a-car facilities are available at the airport.
Hotels in Tupelo
​Choose a place closer to the Northern side of Tupelo to be within 15 minutes away from my studio. 
Nashville to Tupelo Regional Airport
Uber, Lyft in Tupelo, MS.
Rent a car at the Tupelo airport
Camping facilities
For folks who like to camp out, there are camping facilities about 3 miles away from the studio at Campgrounds at Barnes Crossing

Past ​porcelain workshops in the United States. 

Success with porcelain workshop presented by Antoinette Badenhorst in her pottery studio in Saltillo Mississippi.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented a porcelain demonstration in the Episcopal church in New Orleans in July 2020. Potters learned how to use the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented an Understanding porcelain workshop in the pottery studio of Nelrea Simpson in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 2020. Potters learned how to use the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects.
Pushing porcelain hands-on workshop in the potter's studio of Antoinette Badenhorst in Saltillo MS
Understanding porcelain workshop in the studio of ceramic artist Antoinette Badenhorst from Saltillo, Mississippi.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented an Understanding porcelain workshop in Marie EVB Gibbons Studio in Denver, Colorado in September 2017 where she taught potters how to use the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects that were included in the hands-on class.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented a success with porcelain workshop at John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina in September 2015. Potters learned how to manipulate the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects that were included in the hands-on class.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented an Understanding porcelain workshop at The Kiln Studio & Gallery in Fairhope, Alabama in May 2015. Potters learned how to control the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects that were included in the hands-on class.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented an Understanding porcelain workshop at the Cedar Lakes Craft Centre in Ripley, Virginia in February 2015. Potters learned how to use the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects that were included in the hands-on class.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented an Understanding porcelain workshop at John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina in October 2014. Potters learned how to use porcelain for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented an Understanding porcelain workshop at John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina in 2013. Potters learned how to use the Diva of clay (porcelain) for wheel throwing and hand building clay projects that were included in the hands-on class.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented a porcelain demonstration in Dallas, Texas in 2012. Potters learned how to handbuild and decorate with porcelain clay.
Antoinette Badenhorst presented hands-on workshops in different states of the USA. She is well known for her porcelain in-person classes.
Antoinette presented hands-on workshops in several US states, different schools, colleges and universities.

Antoinette's online workshops
Understanding Porcelain ​
​Hand building Porcelain
Hand building porcelain Dinnerware
Wheel throwing Porcelain Dinnerware
Wheel thrown Teapots
Pinching Teapots for Beginners
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Glazing Made Easy
​Pottery for Beginners
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    • Remembrance Figurines
    • Porcelain mugs
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    • Porcelain serving Plates and platters
    • Dinnerware accessories
    • Porcelain Teapots
    • Kitchenware
    • Sculpted porcelain bowls >
      • Altered bowls
      • Translucent envelopes
    • Sculpted wall plates
    • Porcelain Sculpture
    • Christmas tree ornaments
  • About
    • Statement
    • Biography
    • Publications
    • Resume
    • Portfolio >
      • Teapot portfolio
      • Sculpted porcelain bowls
      • Sculpted envelopes
      • Ice sculptures
    • Contact >
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Students comments
  • Blogs
    • Videos >
      • Interviews >
        • Artists interviews blog
      • Demonstrations >
        • Pottery demonstrations blog
      • Previews >
        • Preview online pottery and porcelain online classes and workshops blog
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      • Blog details
  • Recipes
    • Glaze
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