Potter

Atlanta Clay Works↗

Eight-Week Beginners Wheel Class

Eight-week sessions, weekly evenings

Spend eight evenings at the wheel in this Cabbagetown studio learning to throw cups, bowls and bottles with clay and firing included.

Austin Pottery↗

Eight Week Wheel Throwing Class

Weekly, eight week sessions

Spend eight weeks at the wheel with your own instructor, learning to throw, trim, and glaze until a real pot is yours to keep.

Clay Lounge↗

Wheel Throwing Pottery Class

8-week series and weekly classes

Spend eight weeks with your hands in the clay, learning to center and pull your first bowls on the wheel at a friendly Boston studio.

Chicago Ceramic Center↗

Beginner Wheel-Throwing Pottery Class

6-week sessions

Sit down at the wheel for six weeks and learn to center clay and throw your first bowls at this welcoming north-side studio.

Community Clay↗

Beginner Wheel Throwing (6-Week Course)

Six-week sessions, new dates most months

Learn to center, pull, and glaze your first bowls on the wheel across a friendly six-week beginner course at this welcoming RiNo clay studio.

Sugar Hill Clay↗

Try It! Wheel Throwing at Sugar Hill Clay

Ongoing 2-hour sessions

Sit down at the wheel in a Midtown studio and shape your very first bowl from a lump of wet clay in one friendly two hour session.

Blue Dog Ceramics↗

Wheel Throwing Class

Month-long weekly classes

Center your first bowl on the wheel in a friendly downtown studio that welcomes total beginners.

Throw Clay LA↗

Beginner wheel class

A welcoming neighborhood studio; sit at the wheel, no experience needed.

Mudluk Pottery↗

Beginner Wheel-Throwing Pottery Class

Ongoing beginner and multi-week classes

Sit down at the wheel in a welcoming south Minneapolis studio and learn to center, pull, and shape your first bowls with patient guidance.

Slip Ceramics↗

Intro to the Pottery Wheel

A friendly two hour session where you center clay, pull your first walls, and leave two finished pieces to be glazed and fired.

Greenwich House Pottery↗

Beginning Wheel & Handbuilding

A beloved West Village pottery school; hands in the clay from night one.

The Clay Studio↗

Wheel throwing class at The Clay Studio

Year-round terms

Learn to center clay and throw your first bowl on the wheel at a beloved nonprofit ceramics studio in Kensington.

Georgie's Ceramic & Clay↗

Beginning wheel class

Portland's oldest clay shop, since 1965; sit at the wheel and begin.

Cone 6 Ceramics↗

Wheel Throwing Pottery Class

90 minute and multi week sessions

You sit down at the wheel in a warm, woman owned Barrio Logan studio and learn to center clay and shape your very first bowl.

Ruby's Clay Studio & Gallery↗

Wheel Throwing and Handbuilding Pottery Class

8-week sessions, year round

Sit down at the wheel in a beloved nonprofit Castro studio and learn to center clay and pull your first bowls over an eight week session.

The Clay Corner↗

Learn the Pottery Wheel at The Clay Corner

Weekend intro classes and memberships

Sit down at a wheel in Seattle's largest community pottery studio and feel the clay center under your hands for the very first time.

District Clay Center↗

Ten-Week Wheel Throwing Course

Ten-week terms, year round

Spend ten weeks at the wheel in a Northeast DC studio, learning to center clay and pull your first bowls with a patient teacher beside you.

Clay Studio↗

Throw your first bowl on the pottery wheel

Sit down at the wheel with a working potter and feel wet clay rise into a bowl you shape with your own hands.

Tierra Ceramicas↗

Shape clay on the wheel at Tierra Ceramicas

Monthly classes, small groups

Sit down at the potter's wheel in a Gracia studio and let a patient teacher guide your hands until the clay finally listens.

Helka Ceramics↗

Throw Your First Bowl on the Wheel

Evening classes and 4-week courses

Sit down at the wheel in a calm Kreuzberg studio and shape wet clay into something that is truly yours, with all tools, glazes, and firing taken care of.

Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre↗

Weekend pottery course on the wheel

Two days, 10am to 5pm, several weekends a year

Two days in a Kinsale studio learning coiling, slab building, throwing on the wheel and glazing, with your pots fired and ready to collect a fortnight later.

Dublin Pottery Making↗

Throw bowls and vases on the wheel over four evenings

Four weekly evening sessions, Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, 6pm to 8pm

A beginners wheel throwing course in a Smithfield studio where you leave with several pieces fired and glazed.

Shunzan Gama↗

Throw your own cup on the wheel at a Kyoto kiln

By reservation

Sit at a spinning wheel with a third-generation Kyoto potter and shape your own cup or bowl, which the kiln then fires and ships to your home.

FICA Oficina Criativa↗

Throw Clay on the Wheel at FICA Oficina Criativa

Recurring sessions, materials included

Sit down at the potter's wheel in a friendly Lisbon studio and shape your own bowl from a lump of clay, with everything provided and no experience needed.

Kana London↗

Clay classes and Saturday tasters

Tiny classes with a master potter; drop in for a clay taster on Saturdays.

Turning Earth↗

Pottery courses across four London studios

Six to twelve weeks, three hours a session

Wheel throwing and hand building taught together, from a single taster to a twelve week course, clay and glazes included.

The Kiln Rooms↗

Beginner and Intermediate Pottery Courses

Eight to twelve weeks

Four or five weeks of throwing, hand building, moulds and glazing, then your own projects, in a working members studio.

Slow Clay Centre↗

Beginner's Pottery Wheel Course

Eight-week courses, four times a year

Settle in at the wheel for an eight-week beginners course at this long-loved Collingwood studio and slowly learn to throw, trim and glaze your first pots.

Manos de Tierra↗

Open Ceramics Studio at Manos de Tierra

Ongoing open-studio sessions, by reservation

You choose your own clay project and shape it at your own pace with a guide close at hand, from a first pinch pot to a finished glazed piece.

Atelier Forma↗

Throw your first bowl on the pottery wheel

Weekly sessions, French and English

Sit down at the wheel with a friendly guide at this Montreal ceramics studio and shape your very first bowl from a lump of clay.

Pottery Hive & Co↗

Throw your first bowl on the potter's wheel

Two hour discovery session

Sit at the wheel for the first time and, guided hand over hand, center the clay and shape a bowl to call your own.

Uzumako Ceramic Art School↗

Throw and Hand Build at a Tokyo Ceramics School

English classes several days a week

Learn the wheel and hand building from Japanese potters in a friendly Minato studio where beginners are always welcome.

Pottery Lab↗

Beginner Wheel Throwing at Pottery Lab

Ongoing classes

Sit down at the wheel in a warm King West studio and shape your first bowl from a lump of clay with a patient teacher at your side.

Community Clay↗

Beginner Wheel-Throwing Pottery Class

7-week evening and weekend courses

Spend seven weeks at a small Mount Pleasant studio learning to center clay and pull your first bowls on the wheel.