You haven’t been this bad at something in years.
You’re gonna love it.
The Clay Hole is a 10,000 square foot pottery studio in Draper, built for exactly one reason. It’s a place where people actually find each other. The pottery is just the excuse your hands needed.
⭐ 4.9 from 139+ Google reviews · Total beginners welcome · No contracts. Cancel whenever.
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Here’s The Clay Hole in a nutshell:
Join as a monthly member
From $145 a month. It’s the only way in, and there’s a very good reason for it.One-time date nights make one-time friends. Which is to say, none.
Come whenever you want
Four to eight classes a month, depending on your level. Come any night that fits. Four instructors in every class. No curriculum, no grades.Fridays and weekends run as open studio: no instructors, still counts as a class.
Miss a week? Nothing happens
Your unused classes never expire while you’re a member. Sick kid, work trip, life on fire. They’ll all be waiting for you.No punch cards. No expiry dates. Nothing wasted, ever.
Repeat until these are your people
That’s not a joke, it’s the business model. Show up often enough and the people at your table quietly stop being strangers.Which is the actual reason this place exists.
Want it explained properly? How membership works, start to finish → · The FAQs · Virtual studio tour
I’m Dan. And I’d sincerely love it if you’d come give this place a go.
The elephant in the room: you might already know me. Around three million people follow me making pottery on social media, which is a ridiculous thing to type out loud. And before clay, I wrote a blog that millions of people read. I’ve never gone looking for a following. I just do my thing and awesome humans tend to find me. It is what it is.
But the truth is, this isn’t actually about me. I’m here, sure. Popping into classes. Throwing pots over on my wheel. Teaching more advanced lessons and concepts. Reaching for the glazes on those tall top shelves I didn’t really think all the way through when I designed the place. Learning your names and then probably forgetting them at least once and feeling terrible about it. All of it has been more fun than you can imagine.
I built The Clay Hole as my last big hurrah. Not to get bigger online. Not for more kudos. No. I built it to turn my life back into a world full of real people, at real tables, who become real friends.
Social media is fine at its best. This, right here, with living breathing humans, is infinitely better.
For the first long stretch, this place was just kind of centered all around me. My studio. My rules. My name behind every single thing in it.
Somewhere along the way that quietly stopped being true, though. 20+ employees. Hundreds of members. People who show up early to help set up and stay late to help keep this place going, and who never once had to be asked to do it. Thousands of chats with the most epic of humans. Endless laughs. A few unexpected tears.
It eventually just kinda became our studio. Which was a really neat moment here at The Clay Hole.
Because of that… from here on out, when you see “we” or “us” on this website, I mean it. This honestly stopped being mine a while ago. It became ours.
Which was always the whole point.
The thing nobody tells you about pottery
About 80% of people walk through our door wanting one thing. The wheel. And listen, the wheel is glorious. We’ve got 29 of them, and instructors who’ll teach you from your very first class.
But, get this. Around 80% of the people who come for the wheel end up falling head over heels for the other side of our studio. The side almost nobody knows to ask about. Hand-building, sculpting, slab molds. It’s where you sit at a big table with your future best friends, talk about absolutely nothing, and walk out of your first class holding something beautiful.
There are three ways to make pottery here. You never have to pick one. Our members bounce between all three, every class, forever.
The Pottery Wheel
Hard at first. Wildly addictive after. It takes two or three months to get halfway decent, and somehow every hour of it feels like meditation. With 29 wheels, you’re never waiting for a seat.
Hand-Building & Sculpting
Big community tables. Thousands of tools. Your hands stay busy while the conversation goes wherever it wants to go. This is where people accidentally make best friends.
Slab Molds
Press clay into one of 150+ gorgeous molds and walk out with a near-perfect bowl, platter, or casserole dish your very first night. You’ll look ridiculously talented. We won’t tell anybody.
Making friends as an adult is broken. So we built this.
Somebody actually measured this. It takes about 50 hours with a person to turn them into a casual friend. About 90 hours to make a real one. And 200+ hours to make the kind of friend you text at midnight.
So of course adulthood feels lonely. Where were those hours supposed to come from? The office? The gym, where everybody is wearing headphones specifically so you won’t talk to them?
Here’s the math nobody shows you. A membership here puts you at a table with the same warm, funny, weird, wonderful humans for 14+ hours every month. Hands busy. Guards down. And that 200-hour problem quietly solves itself while you’re busy making things you love.
This isn’t a pottery studio with a community. It’s a community that happens to have a really, really nice pottery studio.
Real Clay Holers
Real humans. Real creativity. Real fun.
Pick your lane. Change it anytime.
Four levels. Every jump up gets you more classes, more tools, more glazes, more shelf. People rarely go back down. Most land on Purple within a year, which probably tells you something. Start wherever feels right to you.
GREEN
The “let’s find out if I love this” level. Basic glazes, bring your own tools, and a private shelf that’s all yours.
YELLOW
Everything in Green, plus $150,000 worth of tools and dozens of premium glazes. Honestly? The sweet spot for starting out.
PURPLE
Hundreds more glazes. Thousands more tools. A way bigger shelf, every mold we own, and first dibs on events. This is where most of our members end up living.
BLACK
Nearly everything in this million dollar studio, including gear nobody else gets to touch. For the truly obsessed. (Only a few spots exist.)
All levels: classes never expire while you’re a member · four instructors in every class · cancel or pause anytime by the 24th · no contracts
Start this month or start next month. Either way, join now. Sign up before the 15th and we’ll assume you’re starting this month. After that, just tell us when we text you.
Not sure which color is yours? Compare all four, side by side →
Shared Membership
One membership. Two humans. Split the classes however you want. Same price as one. (Couples only, sorry.)
Shared Shelf Pass
You each get a full membership, share one shelf, and save 20% on both. (Any two people. Couples, friends, siblings, whoever.)
Doing this with somebody? Smart. It’s better that way. Compare the couples options →
The fine print, and I’m not hiding any of it
- Memberships renew automatically on the 25th of each month. Cancel or pause any time by the 24th in the member portal. A few clicks. No awkward conversation with anybody.
- Memberships run on calendar months. Start any day you like; your month ends at the end of that calendar month (but your unused classes never expire while you’re a member).
- Clay (from $28/bag) and glaze firings ($0.05 per cubic inch, bisque firings free) are purchased separately.
- All members sign a studio waiver before their first class.
- Ages 18+. Teens 14–17 are welcome alongside a parent or guardian who is also a member.
- Everything else lives on our FAQs page. It is absurdly thorough.
4.9 stars · 139+ Google reviews
Don’t take our word for any of it.
“I love my Clay Hole community! I’ve found my safe place and made so many friends. The instructors are awesome… If you’re looking for YOUR place, come join us.”
“The Clay Hole has become my new family and community. Not only is it the most AMAZING pottery studio, with perfect tools, knowledgeable teachers, beautiful glazes…”
“If you’re looking for community, friendships, and a place to look forward to every week: this is it! The Clay Hole feels like a warm hug.”
A different batch loads every time you visit. There are too many good ones to pick favorites.
“I don’t have time for a weekly thing.”
We hear this one constantly. Okay. Let’s do the math together. And be honest:
Here’s what you’d get for those hours. A skill that keeps growing for the rest of your life. A shelf filling up with things that exist because your hands made them. And a table of people who notice when you’re not there.
You don’t have a time problem. You have a priority problem. And honestly? So do we. Present company very much included. That’s exactly why we built a place that makes the better priority the easy one.
And if life truly blows up on you mid-month, your classes never expire anyway.
So the excuse is gone. All that’s left is the good part.
Whoever you are, someone here is already saving you a seat
If your brain is a little spicy…
You’re the majority here, not the exception. Most of our members have ADHD. So do I. So does half our staff. Pottery is the hobby your dopamine has been hunting for this whole time, and we put couches everywhere for when that spicy meatloaf between your ears needs to settle down.
If you have social anxiety…
You can sit quietly and make things next to people without saying one word. Connection at your pace, not ours. Most of us walked in nervous. (Also, my dog Mud works here. He specializes in exactly this.)
If you’re on the conservative side…
Our daytime class is your happy place. No alcohol, no cursing. My mom comes to that one, and we show her some respect.
If you’ve recently left a church, a marriage, a state, or a whole life…
And your entire social circle left with it. We can’t tell you how many of our members started in that exact spot. Come be new here. It won’t last long, I promise.
If you’re an engineer-brained optimizer…
Pottery is a bottomless skill tree with instant tactile feedback and 650 glaze variables to obsess over. You will never reach the end of it. We’ve got engineers and tech people absolutely everywhere in here.
If you’re LGBTQ+…
Welcome home. No asterisks.
If you’re a couple…
This is the date night that actually builds something. Literally. We made shared memberships just for you two.
If you’re none of the above…
Perfect. We collect originals.
The one thing we don’t allow: jerks. If you’re cruel to people in this studio, you’re gone. I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again without losing a minute of sleep. That’s why it feels so safe in here.
Never touched clay?
Perfect. Most of our members walked in knowing absolutely nothing. You don’t need a plan. You don’t need a shred of talent. You need to walk through our door one time. Our instructors take it from there, and the slab molds will make you look good on day one.
Been throwing for years?
Fair warning. This place will ruin every other studio for you. 29 wheels. Four kilns, one big enough to fire a four foot piece. 650+ glazes, Diamond Core tools, and advanced wheel nights with me every month. You’ve done the work. Come use gear that keeps up with you.
When & where
Class times, and you can come to any of them
Open 7 days a week (holidays excluded). View the full studio calendar →
Where we are
The Clay Hole
12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100
Draper, UT 84020
Right off I-15 by IKEA.
An easy 15 to 25 minutes from Sandy, South Jordan, Riverton, Herriman, Lehi, American Fork, and most of Salt Lake City. If you’ve been searching “pottery classes near me” anywhere in the Salt Lake Valley or northern Utah County, you just found the big one.
385-241-5528 · Map & directions →
Quick answers
Do I need any experience to join?
None whatsoever. Most of our members had never touched clay in their lives. Four instructors in every class will teach you everything, and the slab molds let you make something beautiful your very first day.
How much does membership cost?
Memberships run $145 to $275 a month, depending on how many classes and how much access you want. That shakes out to about $33 to $36 for a three and a half hour session with instructors. And there’s always a first-month deal for new members.
Can I just try one class first?
Honestly? No. And that’s on purpose. Real pottery takes weeks (drying, two kiln firings, glazing), and real friendship takes even longer. A one-off class gives you neither one. So instead we made the first month cheap enough to be an easy yes, and you can cancel any time with a few clicks.
What happens if I get busy and miss weeks?
Nothing bad at all. Your unused classes never expire while you’re a member. Use them next week, next month, or next year. You can also pause your membership when life gets complicated, and life gets complicated.
Can my partner and I share a membership?
You bet. Couples can share one membership and split the classes however they want, or the two of you can each keep a full membership, share one shelf, and save 20% apiece.
Can I bring a friend to class?
Yes, and people love this one. Our Bring-a-Friend program lets you bring a guest to any class after your first one. You cover their spot, they sign the waiver, and they make something right next to you. Fair warning. Hesitant friends have a nasty habit of becoming members.
Still fuzzy on how membership works? We explain all of it here →
Every other question, answered honestly, on our FAQs page → · Or just text us: 385-241-5528
A year from now, you’ll be a year older.
The only question is what you’ll have to show for it.
One version of you spent it scrolling. The other version has a shelf full of things that didn’t exist until your hands made them, and a table of people who save you a seat.
We’re saving you one right now.
Start this month or next. Totally your call. · Questions first? Text us: 385-241-5528