Elevate your Creativity with Our Unique Classes
Ignite Your Passion with Our Wide Range of Pottery Classes
What a Pottery Journey Brings
Pottery offers a wealth of benefits, touching on both mental and physical well-being. Here are 5 key things people gain from engaging in this craft:
Sense of Accomplishment and Increased Self-Esteem
Creating a functional or decorative piece from start to finish provides a strong sense of accomplishment. This can boost self-esteem and confidence.
Enhanced Creativity and Self-Expression
Pottery provides a tangible outlet for creativity. From shaping the clay to glazing the finished piece, individuals have the freedom to express their unique artistic vision.
Social Connection
Pottery classes and studios often foster a sense of community. Engaging in this activity with others creates opportunities for social interaction and connection with like-minded individuals.
Improved Mindfulness and Focus
The process of working with clay demands presence and attention to detail. This cultivates mindfulness, helping individuals to stay grounded in the present moment and improve their concentration.
Stress Reduction and Relaxation
The tactile nature of working with clay, combined with the focused attention it requires, creates a meditative experience. This can significantly reduce stress levels and promote a sense of calm.
Our Class Offerings
House of Clay offers engaging pottery classes for beginners, enthusiasts and artists. We offer a variety of learning opportunities. Our classes include:
Pottery and Pinot Night!
Enjoy a relaxing evening with friends, a date, or yourself learning hand-building techniques and applying designs to your unique ceramic piece.
Taste of Wheel Throwing
Join our two-session class for beginners and enjoy the hands-on experience of centering clay and forming simple shapes. Enjoy a taste of the process.
Introduction to Wheel Throwing: 8-Week Beginner Course
Our 8-week, beginner-friendly course teaches you everything from wedging and centering to shaping, trimming, and glazing
Mono-print Transfers on Clay
In this 8-week course, you’ll dive into the expressive art of mono-printing, learning to design and layer imagery using underglaze and slip on newsprint for slab transfers, and progressing to applying mono-prints to pottery and sculptural forms.
Hand Building Exploration
An 8-week course where we will explore the art of hand building. You will learn pinch, coil, and slab building along with surface decoration and glazing techniques.
Clay Inlay
This 3-week, beginner-friendly course teaches students the art of inlaying colored clay into slabs to create bold patterns. You’ll learn to slab build a vessel, color clay for design, and then construct a unique cup from your decorated slabs.
Intermediate/Advanced Wheel Throwing: Refine & Expand (8 Weeks)
Take your wheel throwing skills to the next level in this 8-week course. Designed for potters with prior wheel throwing experience, we’ll explore complex forms, advanced techniques, and personalized projects. Focus on refining your skills, mastering challenging shapes, and developing your unique artistic voice.