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The Place

A Place to Make Art. Located in the most beautiful of Seattle’s Parks, Seward Park Clay Studio has been a vital element in the Northwest’s visual arts community since 1969. At that time, as part of Seattle’s ‘Art in the Parks’ program, the studio had fully subsidized offerings in clay, photography, jewelry making, weaving and printmaking. Countless students and studio artists have enjoyed the old bathhouse on the shores of Lake Washington. The City eventually withdrew funding from these programs, but the clay artists remained and set up a self-supporting clay studio. What better place to make clay art than an old brick building nestled in a park full of old growth trees, beaches and wildlife?

Seward Park Clay Studio has been incorporated as a non-profit educational ceramics institution and run by a Board of directors since 1986.

The Community

A diverse mix. Part of the joy of working in this environment has been the stretching of the soul that happens when excellent teachers, students and artists work together.The community that forms from these interactions promotes the growth of the ceramic arts, and enriches the cultural life of our region.

We serve over 5000 people every year through our classes, our workshops and lecture series, our annual sales and our collaborative shows with local galleries.

The Potential

Objects made with clay have been one of the primary means of human creative expression for millennia. The relative ease, flexibility and responsiveness of clay continue to make it a material of choice for a significant number of mature artists as well as an excellent material for beginning students.

Seward Park Clay Studio’s mission is to promote the growth of the ceramicartsby providing a broad range of educational programs, events and studio opportunities forartists, in a community clay arts facility.

We welcome your participation in our programs, either by enrollment in a class or a workshop or by giving financially to help others take part in the many opportunities that we offer.

Board of Directors

Art Pasette, President
Hannah Scott, Vice President
Dan Neish, Treasurer
Candy House, Secretary

Don Avriett
Carloyn Di Palma
Joel Gibson
Terry Johnson
Gretchen Siegrist

Artistic Council

Anne Hirondelle
Sarah Louden
Sequoia Miller
Akio Takamori
Al Tennant
Tip Toland
Jamie Walker
Ben Waterman

Executive Director

Peter Olsen