MEETINGS & EVENTS
Membership is required to participate in some events but the regular networking, informal member demos, and fellowship at our monthly meetings will remain free and open to the public.
Greater Austin Clay Artists is excited to announce our new Clay Mixer series! This new meetup series will give us an opportunity to gather and socialize at local community clay studios around Austin. Each meetup will have a theme, but it's primary focus will be for us to just network, have fun, and see our Austin clay studios!
To learn more and see the upcoming schedule of mixers,
visit our Clay Mixers page.
Upcoming Monthly Meetings
GACA Presents: Dougherty Arts Center Visual Artists In Residence
Tuesday, May 5th
7:00-9:00pm
For our May meeting the DAC Visual Artists in Residence will be sharing their processes and inspirations in a group demo.
Current residents are:
Victoria Zhuk: @vicki_zhuk
Victoria will be demonstrating vessel building from slab.
Victoria Zhuk is a ceramic artist based in Austin, Texas. She creates hand-built sculptural vessels and playful functional ceramics that exist between art and utility. Through organic forms, visible coil lines, and tactile surfaces, her work explores migration, memory, belonging, and the beauty of imperfection.
Gargi Sharma: @gargi.sharma94 http://studiogargi.com/
Gargi will share her process for recreating rust-like surface finishes.
Trained in architecture and later in ceramic and glass design, she spent several years working in ceramic education before beginning her own art practice. Teaching and curriculum design encouraged her to reimagine her artistic journey from a learner’s perspective, a shift that continues to shape her playful approach to ceramic surfaces and forms. Her recent work explores rusted, weathered textures on handbuilt forms, drawing on everyday objects, and a deep connection to cultural memory rooted in her Indian origins.
Minnie Rogers: @minnierogersart
Stefania Garcia: @mudbugstudio
Stefania will demonstrate her process for building sculptures using pinch pots and coils.
Stefania is an emerging ceramicist currently based in Austin, TX. Using hand-building methods, Stefania creates sculptural work intertwining concepts from her Mexican culture and insects; mirroring her journey of self-acceptance while finding beauty in the ordinary.
The DAC's Visual Artist Residency Program provides visual artists with the space, facilities, time and professional interaction that will foster and further develop their ideas, skills, abilities, and focus as practicing artists. This is a work exchange program where resident artists are invited to create outreach opportunities within our community such as teaching workshops, giving public presentations, critiques and monitoring our independent study program and open studio hours.
As always you are invited to join us and our presenting artists for dinner before the meeting at AGBG on Oltorf starting at 5:30.
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2026 Meetings/Demonstrations
January 14th - Open House & Supply Exchange
February 3rd - Chance Ramirez - Feel It Out Workshop
March 3rd - Kell Simon: Slip Inlay
April 7th - Hector Kriete
April 22 - Special Guest Sue Tirrell - Slab Plate Design
May 5th - Dougherty Arts Center Visual Artists in Residence
June 2nd - Diane Sung
July 7th - TBD
August 4th - TBD
September 1st - Empty Bowls
October 6th - TBD
November 3rd - TBD
December - No meeting
Interesting in being a demonstrating artists for one of our meetings?
Email us with your information, what you would like to demonstrate, and some images of your work.
Meeting Details
GACA has returned to holding our monthly meetings in the Ceramics Studio in the Fine Arts Building at St. Edward's University in 2026.
The Fine Arts Building located at 3001 S Congress. You will need to register your license plate at the following link to park on campus. You can do this prior to arriving, and park in any of the green lots surrounding the building. Use the session code CLAY to access.
https://vpermit.com/stedwards/ClaimableEvents/Claim
The Fine Arts Building is circled in red on the map, with South Congress Ave to the left. You can open Google Maps with directions by clicking the image or going to this link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/o2QPFha7w2jK9v5o6
Meetings typically start at 7pm with community announcements followed by a demonstration or talk from an area artist.
