Clay studio · Alder Falls

Make the mug you'll reach for every morning.

Small pottery classes with a real teacher, a wheel for every student and all the clay, glaze and firing included. No experience needed, just clothes you don't mind getting muddy.

Start with Wheel Throwing 101 See all classes
8students per class
12wheels, no sharing
2firings included
Illustration of a shelf of handmade pots: a tall teal vase, a speckled moon jar, a clay mug and a small bowl.

Kiln opens Saturday · last week's pots come out at 10 am

Three ways in

Pick how you want to get your hands dirty.

Most people start with a six-week course. Some just want one Saturday with friends. Potters who already know the basics rent a shelf and come and go.

Wheel Throwing 101

Six weekly sessions that take you from a lump of clay to cylinders, bowls and a mug with a handle that stays on.

$295 · 6 weeks

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Saturday workshops

Three hours of hand-building: pinch pots, slab plates, planters. Good for a first try, a birthday or a team outing.

From $85 · one session

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Open studio

Your own shelf, a key card and two firings a month. For people who already center clay and want a place to keep going.

$165 · per month

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How a pot gets made

Three weeks from wet clay to your kitchen shelf.

Clay needs time. We handle the slow parts: drying, loading the kiln and both firings. You come back for the fun ones.

  1. Day 1

    Throw

    You center, open and pull walls on the wheel. Your teacher works next to you, not from the front of the room.

  2. Day 7

    Trim

    The pot is leather-hard. You carve a foot ring and add a handle while the clay is still soft enough to join.

  3. Day 10

    Bisque fire

    We fire it to about 1,060 °C. It comes out pale, hard and ready to soak up glaze.

  4. Day 21

    Glaze & take home

    You dip it in one of 14 food-safe glazes, we fire it to cone 6, and it waits on the pickup shelf with your name on it.

Coming up

Next classes with seats left

Full schedule

07Nov · Sat

Hand-building: slab plates

2 seats left10:00 am – 1:00 pm · $85

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13Nov · Fri

Date night on the wheel

3 pairs left7:00 – 9:30 pm · $120 for two

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12Jan · Tue

Wheel Throwing 101 · Tuesday cohort

6 weeks6:30 – 9:00 pm · $295

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Illustration of the studio front: a brick former bakery on Mill Street with a striped awning, a shop window full of pots and a bike parked outside.

The studio

A former bakery with good light and two kilns.

We work out of an old bakery on Mill Street, next to the grain mill. Big windows, concrete floors that don't mind a splash and a back room with two electric kilns that fire four nights a week.

  • All clay, tools, aprons and glazes included in class prices
  • Food-safe, lead-free glazes, tested for every batch
  • Step-free entrance and a wheel with a lowered seat

Winter cohorts

Six sessions. Five pots. One very good mug.

Wheel Throwing 101 starts January 12, 2027, with Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday cohorts. Eight seats each.

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