Upcoming Events
On this page you can find information on upcoming events and purchase tickets to public workshops.
My workshops aim to meet hands-on learning experiences with deep collective thinking. I think it makes a huge difference to learn through tactile exploration, to chat and play as we make, cross-pollinating our ideas.
These are the skills we build together, to fertilize new ways of thinking and re-member ritualistic making practices, for communion with an always changing, growing, dying, living world.
Hope to see you at a workshop soon!
More info on past workshops here.
Workshop Terms and Conditions
contact: rosiebrandstudio@gmail.com
Clay Seed Pod Happening
at The Philosophical Research Soceity’s Plantstock Festival, May 24th 2025.
A collaborative sculpture workshop fundraising in aid of Altadena Seed Library.
Three sessions available, 11am-6pm.
Register Here.
What can we learn from looking closely at seed pods, by dancing their dance?
In this one-day workshop at the PRS Plantstock Festival, participants will sculpt a giant collaborative clay seed pod, guided by artist and naturalist Rosie Brand.
Seed pods teach us about carrying precious and precarious futures, they know how to make and unmake themselves, they contain the knowledge of letting go. Together we must learn to weave new containers for ongoingness, composting those that no longer carry us. Looking at examples of locally foraged seed pods, we’ll adapt fundamental clay hand-building techniques to build our large scale pod.
Following the profound loss of the Eaton and Palisades fires, we face the complex work of rebuilding our neighborhoods. With this collective gesture, we honor what has been lost, holding space for the hopeful act of reseeding in the wake of disaster. As we make our collaborative giant pod, we’ll discuss human impact on local ecologies, and how we can foster native habitats in our neighborhoods.
No previous clay experience is necessary!
In addition to building the collaborative sculpture, participants will make clay seed balls embedded with native wildflower seeds to cast into their neighborhoods.
Come and learn from plants, get your hands dirty and have fun!
Sign up is by sliding scale donation. All contributions are welcome.
We are raising funds for Altadena Seed Library, who are working to empower communities to steward their neighborhood ecosystems by distributing free seeds and seed education.
There are three time slots to participate: 11am-1pm, 2pm-4pm, 5pm-6pm. Book now to reserve your spot, limited spots will be set aside for walk-ups on the day.
Faith in a Seed: A Clay Seed Pod Workshop
Hosted by Amoca and California Botanic Garden, May 30-31.Register here.
Join AMOCA and the California Botanic Garden as we welcome multidisciplinary artist, educator, and certified California naturalist Rosie Brand for a two-day workshop exploring the intricate relationships between living seed architecture and their environments!
In this ceramics workshop, we’ll spend the first day at the California Botanic Garden touring their extensive native seed bank and observing their living collection of CA native plants. Afterward, we’ll do some sensory field journaling exercises in the Garden to shape personal narratives with the plants that surround us in our everyday lives. California Botanic Garden is the largest botanic garden dedicated to California native plants: an 86 acre living museum dedicated to education, research, and conservation.
The next day, in the AMOCA Studio, students will share their botanical findings and explore the artist’s collection of locally foraged seed pods. We will continue our conversation around fostering habitats for our more-than-human neighbors, discussing human impact on the natural environment. As we imagine new possibilities for collaborations with the plant world around us, students will build their own tactile seed pod architectures through clay, using essential ceramic hand-building techniques to create both ephemeral and permanent sculptures: Clay Seed Pods.
Along with their seed sculptures, students will be able to make and take home clay seed balls embedded with native wildflower seeds to be gifted back to the land.
This class is open to all levels of clay experience!
A limited number of discounted $55 tickets are reserved for students aged 15-23. Email education@amoca.org to share proof of current student status and request the discount registration code.
Class Meetings:
Friday, May 30, 4-6 PM @ California Botanic Garden1500 N College Avenue, Claremont CA 91711
Saturday, May 31, 12-3 PM @ AMOCA
399 N. Garey Avenue, Pomona CA 91767