Join Miki Shim and Quail Run Wines for a one-day teapot workshop and wine tasting in Sonoma Valley, California.

Sunday, October 12th, 2025
10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Hand-building Workshop
6 p.m.-7 p.m., Quail Run Wines Wine Tasting

$350 per person, 10 person max participant

Bring your hand-building tools, and inspirations. Together we will make your ideas come to life and make it functional with a pour to boast!

Participants will use hand building techniques to design and construct functional and decorative teapots lead by Miki Shim.

Your day will start with light refreshments, introductions and a warm up exercise of making a pinched and coiled teapot. We will familiarize ourselves with all the pieces and parts and talk about best practices on what makes a teapot, a teapot, and how to make a pour that doesn’t dribble!

After a brief demonstration on our next teapot form, we will use variety or methods including slabs, templates and textures to make the next teapot.

After a lunch break, we will finalize the construction of the work in progress and discuss glazing techniques and finishing options.

Whether you decide to make it super functional or purely decorative or somewhere in the middle, this workshop will sure to inspire more teapots on your clay journey.

Registration includes: Clay, morning refreshments, afternoon lunch, and wine tasting at 6pm.

Please bring:
A sketch book of ideas, basic hand-building tools that include, smoothing rib, wooden knife tool, sharp cutting tool, scoring tool, and preferred texture tools/mats.