Dan Pearce's Pottery Corner

I love almost every part of The Clay Hole. Owning it, running it, the members, my staff. There are also a lot of really tricky dynamics I never expected when I opened this studio. So I write about them. Writing is how I have always figured my world out.

I was a writer long before I was a potter, and I've always believed in the power of hitting publish on whatever the truth of life is. It is how I think. It is also how any of us learn anything from each other.

Open letters, member dynamics, the hardest parts of all of it. These are my unfiltered thoughts. None of it is a how-to. The teaching lives in The Clay Hole University.