DECO Clay Craft Academy
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DECO Clay Craft Academy
2022 Spring Project - Wall Arrangement
Create a spring wall arrangement from clay in this DECO online workshop with Yukiko. Learn to make sweet pea stems, a bumblebee, and your own wall-mounted vessel.
What you will learn
- Sweet pea flowers, three types of buds, three types of pea pods, leaves, and tendrils using a sweet pea silicone mold set.
- A realistic bumblebee using Silky Smooth and Lucent clays, flocking powders, and translucent wings.
- A wall-mounted vessel using Elite modeling clay and Soft clay.
Viewing access and supplies
Includes over one and a half hours of instruction. Video access is available for three months from the date of initial viewing.
The $155 lesson price does not include materials, molds, or tools. Required molds include the sweet pea mold set and lilac leaf mold, plus CLAYCRAFT by DECO Mold D or a plastic sheet. Refer to the course materials list for complete supply details.
Our story
CLAYCRAFT by DECO originated in 1981, when Kazuko Miyai opened the DECO Clay Craft Academy. Since then, the academy has grown into a worldwide community of certified instructors and students.
1981
The academy opens
Kazuko Miyai founds the DECO Clay Craft Academy in Japan.
2000
DECO comes to Hawaii
Yukiko Miyai opens her first studio in Honolulu.
2026
45 years
An anniversary exhibition at Akasaka Prince Classic House, Tokyo.
The founder
Kazuko Miyai
Kazuko has authored over twenty DECO Clay Craft books and developed her own line of air dry clays, known as CLAYCRAFT by DECO Soft Clay. She has continued to develop and enhance her unique techniques to produce sophisticated and complex dimensions.
Kazuko is well known in the clay crafting world and is still actively involved in certifying more than 5,000 instructors across the U.S., Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and many more. Each year she exhibits her work and shares her latest techniques with audiences all over the world.
DECO in America
Yukiko Miyai
Trained under her mother, Yukiko brought this unique concept to Honolulu, Hawaii, where she opened her first studio in 2000. Since then, the U.S. division has expanded throughout Hawaii, California and beyond, with over 3,000 members and more than 500 certified instructors.
Yukiko has diversified the product line with a wide range of floral design techniques featured in her instructional books, including Clay Art for Special Occasions, Clay Art for All Seasons and DECO Clay Flowers. Her work has also been featured on the Martha Stewart show.
Finished creations are not only beautiful; they are lightweight, soft to the touch, and exceptionally durable for a lifetime of enjoyment.
The clay
CLAYCRAFT by DECO
An innovative, air dried modeling clay that is light, pliable, easy to work with and versatile. It is ideal for projects from the simplest to the most imaginative, and with endless color mixing possibilities it is perfect for detail work. Finished pieces air dry to a firm consistency in 24 hours.
CLAYCRAFT by DECO Soft Clay comes in a white base clay and six colors for mixing: red, yellow, blue, green, brown and black.
White base clay, plus six colors
White
base
Red
Yellow
Blue
Green
Brown
Black
Create with DECO
DECO Clay Craft Academy and its certified instructors offer classes to create lifelike flowers, ornaments, accessories and other craft items.