Healing through Ceramics: Understanding, Resilience, and Connection through Making with Sanjit Sethi

Concept

How do we define healing? How can ceramics - with all of its beauty, uncertainty, and contradictions - become a medium for experimentation, community, and greater understanding? What might we learn from the ways nature adapts, repairs, and regenerates, and how can those lessons inspire our own creative practice?

Experience

This workshop invites participants to explore ceramics not simply as a medium, but as a practice for reflection, renewal, and connection. Through a range of making techniques, guided conversation, and moments of quiet making, consider what clay can teach us about resilience, repair, and navigating change.

Skill Level

No previous experience with ceramics is necessary. This workshop values curiosity, attentiveness, and presence over perfection.

Instructor

Sanjit Sethi is an artist, educator, and creative leader whose work explores the intersections of culture, creativity, education, and community. He most recently served as Head of Campus at Green School Bali and previously as President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Across studios, classrooms, and organizations around the world, he has worked with artists, educators, and leaders to foster curiosity, resilience, and more empathic ways of learning and working together. His creative practice often explores memory, place, healing, and belonging through making, conversation, and shared experience. Whether working with clay, institutions, or communities, Sanjit is interested in how creative practice can help us better understand ourselves, one another, and the world we inhabit.