Find your people.
Make beautiful things.
The Clay Hole is a 10,000 sq ft pottery studio and third space built for one purpose: a place where friendships actually form while your hands are busy making things you’ll love.
⭐ 4.9 from 139+ Google reviews · Total beginners welcome · No contracts — cancel anytime
Here’s The Clay Hole in 22 seconds:
Join as a monthly member
From $145/month. That’s the only way in — and it’s exactly why this place works.No one-off date nights. Community doesn’t happen in one visit.
Come to any classes you want
4–8 classes a month depending on your level. No assigned days. Every class is open studio with four instructors helping you make whatever YOU want. No curriculum. No grades.
Miss a week? Nothing happens
Your unused classes never expire while you’re a member. Sick, traveling, life exploded? They wait for you.
Repeat until these are your people
That’s not a joke. It’s the business model.
Want the deep detail? Our FAQs answer everything → · Take the virtual studio tour
The thing nobody tells you about pottery
About 80% of people walk in here wanting one thing: the wheel. And listen — the wheel is incredible. We have 29 of them and instructors who’ll teach you from your very first class.
But here’s the secret: around 80% of the people who come for the wheel end up falling head-over-heels for the other side of the studio. The side almost nobody knows to ask about. Hand-building, sculpting, and slab molds — where you sit at a big table with your future best friends, chat while you work, and walk out of your first class having made something beautiful.
There are three ways to make pottery here — and you never have to choose. Members bounce between all of them, every class, forever.
The Pottery Wheel
Hard at first, wildly addictive after. Takes 2–3 months to get decent, and every hour is weirdly meditative. 29 wheels means you’ll never wait for a seat.
Hand-Building & Sculpting
Big community tables, thousands of tools, infinite directions. Your hands stay busy while the conversation flows — this is where people accidentally make best friends.
Slab Molds
Press clay into one of 150+ gorgeous molds and make a near-perfect bowl, platter, or casserole dish in your very first class. Look talented immediately — we’ll keep your secret.
Making friends as an adult is broken. We built the fix.
Science has actually measured it: it takes about 50 hours with someone to turn an acquaintance into a casual friend. About 90 hours to make a real one. And 200+ hours to make the kind of close friend you text at midnight.
No wonder adulthood feels lonely. Where exactly were those hours supposed to come from — the office? The gym, where everyone’s wearing headphones?
Here’s the math nobody else will show you: a Clay Hole membership puts you at a table with the same warm, funny, creative humans for 14+ hours every month — hands busy, guards down, conversation flowing. That’s the 200-hour problem, quietly solving itself while you make things you love.
We’re not a pottery studio with a community. We’re a community with 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 adds classes, tools, glazes, shelf space, and perks. People rarely downgrade — most members land on Purple within a year. Start wherever feels right.
GREEN
The “let’s find out if I love this” level. Basic glazes, bring your own tools, your own private shelf.
YELLOW
Everything in Green plus $150K worth of tools and dozens of premium glazes. The sweet spot for starting out.
PURPLE
Hundreds more glazes, thousands more tools, a way bigger shelf, all molds, event first-dibs. Where most members end up living.
BLACK
Nearly everything in the million-dollar studio, including gear nobody else touches. For the obsessed. (Limited spots.)
All levels: classes never expire while you’re a member · four instructors in every class · cancel or pause anytime by the 24th · no contracts
Shared Membership
One membership, two humans, split the classes however you like. Same price as a solo membership. (Couples only.)
Shared Shelf Pass
You each get a full membership, share one shelf, and save 20% on both. (Any two people — couples, friends, siblings.)
Doing this together? Smart. It’s better that way. Compare the couples options →
The honest fine print (one click, no surprises)
- Memberships renew automatically on the 25th of each month. Cancel or pause anytime by the 24th through the member portal — a few clicks, no awkward conversations.
- 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.
- Full details live on the FAQs page — it is genuinely thorough.
Built by the potter your algorithm already knows
The Clay Hole was built by Dan Pearce — 3+ million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, and one of the most-watched potters on the internet. Before pottery, he wrote a blog read by millions. He’s spent his whole life gathering people.
Here’s the part that matters: he’s actually here. Popping into classes, throwing in his corner of the studio, teaching advanced wheel sessions, learning your name. He built this place as his last big hurrah — not to get bigger online, but to bring the internet thing full circle: real people, real tables, real friendship.
Parasocial is fine. This is better.
4.9 stars · 139+ Google reviews
Don’t take our word for any of this.
“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 fresh set of real reviews loads every visit — there are too many good ones to pick favorites.
“I don’t have time for a weekly thing.”
We hear you. Now here’s the math, with love. Be honest:
In exchange for those hours: a skill that compounds for the rest of your life, a shelf filling up with things you made with your own hands, 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? Same. That’s why we built a place that makes the better priority the easier one.
And if life truly blows up mid-month — your classes never expire. 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 in the majority here, not the exception. Most of our members (and Dan, and half the instructors) have ADHD. Pottery is the hobby your dopamine has been looking for. Couches everywhere for when you need to escape the noise.
If you have social anxiety…
You can sit quietly and make things next to people without a single icebreaker. Connection at your pace. Most of us walked in nervous too. (There’s also Mud, the studio dog. He specializes in exactly this.)
If you’re on the conservative side…
Our daytime class is your happy place: no alcohol, no cursing — Dan’s mom is there, 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 went with it: we cannot tell you how many members started exactly there. Come be new here. It won’t last long.
If you’re an engineer-brained optimizer…
Pottery is an infinitely deep skill tree with immediate tactile feedback and 650 glaze variables. You will never hit the bottom of it. We’ve got tech folks 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). Shared memberships exist just for you.
If you’re none of the above…
Perfect. We collect originals.
The one thing we don’t welcome: jerks. We have a strict no-toxicity policy and we genuinely enforce it. That’s why it’s so safe in here.
Never touched clay?
Perfect. Most members walked in knowing absolutely nothing. You don’t need a plan or a shred of talent — you need to walk through the door once. Four instructors per class take it from there, and the slab molds will make you look good on day one.
Been throwing for years?
Fair warning: this studio will ruin every other studio for you. 29 wheels, four kilns (one big enough to fire a 4-foot piece), 650+ glazes, Diamond Core tools, and monthly advanced wheel sessions with Dan. You’ve done the work. Come use gear that keeps up.
When & where
Class times — 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 15–25 minutes from Sandy, South Jordan, Riverton, Herriman, Lehi, American Fork, and most of Salt Lake City. If you’ve been searching for “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 at all. Most members walked in never having touched clay. Four instructors in every class will teach you everything — and slab molds let you make something beautiful your very first day.
How much does membership cost?
Memberships run $145–$275/month depending on how many classes and how much studio access you want. That works out to about $33–$36 per 3.5-hour instructed session — and there’s always a first-month deal for new members.
Can I just try one class first?
Honestly, no — and it’s on purpose. Real pottery takes weeks (drying, two kiln firings, glazing), and real friendship takes longer. One-off classes give you neither. Instead, the first-month deal makes trying a full month low-risk, and you can cancel anytime with a few clicks.
What happens if I get busy and miss weeks?
Nothing bad. 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.
Can my partner and I share a membership?
Yes! Couples can share one membership (and split the classes however they like), or two people can each hold full memberships, share a shelf, and save 20% on both.
Can I bring a friend to class?
Yes — and people love this. Our Bring-a-Friend program lets members bring a guest to any class after their first one. You cover their spot, they sign the waiver, and they get to make something right beside you. Fair warning: hesitant friends have a habit of becoming members.
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 either way.
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 people who save you a seat.
We’re saving you one right now.
Start this month or next — your call. · Questions first? Text us: 385-241-5528