Holding Earth - CANCELLED

Holding Earth: Clay Sculpture with Margrit Haeberlin

Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 9am-3pm

Cost: $175

There is no other material quite like clay. When mixed with water to the right amount, it has the perfect softness and resistance that allows us to shape it with our bare hands. It is one of the few natural mineral materials that we can hold in our hands and use our own strength to create sculptural forms.

Clay provides us with deep, inner experiences through the sense of touch. The direct, haptic experience of our skin directly meeting the material world is combined with our forces of creativity and imagination when we engage in the sculpting process. The clay provides the “body” for our ideas and creative formative energy, and allows us to embody our ideas.

In Waldorf education and Anthroposophic artistic therapy, sculpting with clay provides an essential experience of coming into and orienting ourselves into three-dimensional space, of grounding and centering. Through sculpting, we also work on ourselves, bringing inner form.

This workshop is an opportunity to find ourself in sculptural shapes and benefit from their healing effects.

Open to everyone at all levels of experience.

Margrit Haeberlin is a freelance artist, art educator, and faculty member at BACWTT. In 1989, she graduated with a degree in Art and Design from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Switzerland. She led the design studio for Ruckstuhl AG, following seven years as an independent textile designer creating knitwear. She received her Waldorf teacher training credential from BACWTT in 2010 and taught Early Childhood for 5 years. She was a founding member of the three-year Healing Through Art (HTA) program, graduating in 2025 with a focus in Sculpture. She works with children and adults, runs art workshops, and creates beautiful colored windows for classrooms and therapy rooms.

Please note that this is an in-person event only. A discount is available for group signups.
All art materials provided. Tea, coffee, and snack provided. Please bring your own lunch.

For more information, please contact:

tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org

A guide with accommodation recommendations and other local resources may be found here.