The Whole Studio, One Page

The Everything Page

I’ve built a lot of good stuff around here. Guides. Tools. Certifications. Calculators. A searchable glaze wall. A book we literally call the Bible. So much stuff that even I stopped being able to find it all.

So here it all is, on one page, two taps from anything. Bookmark it and never think about it again.

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The Glaze Bible The Glaze Finder The Mold Room Paper Templates Where & When Kiln Schedules The Clay Hole University The Glazing Topic Get Certified The Rest of the Toolkit Quick Buy Unlimited Class Pass Membership Resources The FAQs Pause or Cancel Class Photos & Show & Tell Daily Affirmation Cards The Virtual Tour Seasonal Ideas Is There Truth to It? Scream Into the Void Meet Dan & Mud Leave a Review Work With Us The Artists Workshop Parties & Team Events
A Clay Hole member throwing a pot on the wheel
Glazes

Seven hundred and sixteen jars, and we wrote down what every one of them does.

The Glaze Bible is the whole wall, written out. Every glaze and underglaze we stock, fired on our own tiles in our own kilns at cone 5½, with what it does over texture, what it does under another glaze, and what the maker will and will not say about eating off it.

The big one

The Glaze Bible

It used to be a binder on a table and a PDF on your phone. It is now a page for every glaze we own. Search by name, family, brand or test tile number, then follow it wherever it goes: what the surface does, which clay bodies it likes, how it moves, what it does layered under or over something else, and where it sits on the shelf.

Read it before you glaze and your kiln openings stop being a surprise. Read it after and you will know why the last one went the way it did.

611Glazes
105Underglazes
42Families
16Ways to browse
Open the Glaze Bible

Also in there: what each Level opens, which glazes are food safe, and the glazes I reach for.

The Mega Glaze Tool

Every glaze and underglaze in the building in one filterable list. Type a color and watch it find things, cut it down to what your Level opens, then build a list and print it.

Filter the wall

The Glaze Finder

You already know which jar you want. Type the name and it tells you the shelf, the row and the slot it is sitting in, so you stop reading the same six shelves over again.

Find a jar

Layering Glazes

One glaze over another, and the part nobody tells you: which pairs are worth firing, which order they go on in, and how many coats each one wants before it will behave.

See the pairings

Offerings to Icarus

You picked the glaze, you did the math, and the kiln still gets a vote. Leave an offering: a secret, something good about somebody else, or something great about yourself.

Leave an offering
When You Can’t Find It

The Glaze Finder

You know exactly which glaze or underglaze you want. You picked it days ago. And now you are standing in front of six hundred and seventy-three jars that all look like jars, reading the same shelf for the fourth time, wondering if somebody moved it.

  • No more twenty-minute lapsReading the same six shelves over and over because it has to be here somewhere.
  • No more hunting a pink teeYou should not have to find a human before you can find a jar.
  • No more settlingGrabbing the one you could actually see is not the same as getting the one you wanted.
Open the Glaze Finder
When You Can’t Resist It
Five scenes of the glaze wall being wrecked: a gorilla swiping jars off a shelf, a giant tarantula spilling teal and red glaze, an alien with a ray gun, a cannon firing into the shelves, and birds bursting out through the broken wall

Destroy the glaze wall

Six hundred and eleven jars, stacked six shelves high, and a row of icons underneath begging to be tapped. Pick one and watch the wall come apart. A gorilla, a tarantula, an alien, a cannon, and well over a hundred more we are not going to spoil.

Found a favorite and lost it? Every last one lives on Destroy the Glaze Wall, A to Z.

Destroy the glaze wall
The Mold Room

Every slab mold we own, in one place.

A slab of clay laid over one of these comes off as a bowl, a platter or a tray with an even wall and a shape that looks like somebody meant it. First try.

  • 148unique slab molds
  • 248on the shelves
  • 75tiles, nested sets share one

Every slab mold comes with the two numbers members ask about first: how much clay to start with, and how thick to roll the slab. Filter it down, heart the ones you want, and take the list to the shelf.

Slab molds need the slab roller and slab mold certification first. It takes about twenty-five minutes, most of it a video. A slab mold broken through carelessness is billed to the member who broke it, anywhere from about $40 to past $600. Normal wear is on us.

Open the Mold Room Get certified first
Paper Templates

Start with a mug. Work your way up to a dragon.

167 so far, and every one of them is free for current members of The Clay Hole.

Print it, lay it on a slab, cut around it, build. Every seam, every bevel and all the shrinkage is worked out before you ever touch the clay, so the piece comes out of the kiln the size it was meant to be.

The mug takes about an hour at the table. The ring dish, about thirty minutes. Then it climbs: a four-cup teapot that actually pours, a lighthouse with a lantern room that glows, a castle that rolls your dice out through its gate, a dragon made of eighty-one flat facets of clay that come together like folded paper. And then there’s Big Ben, thirty-five inches tall with four working dials and a Westminster chime. Fair warning, that one is about twenty-two hours.

And I keep adding more. Every new one is free for members the day it goes up.

Hunting for one kind of thing? I’ve sorted them by kind too, from dinnerware and lamps to origami animals and board games.

See every templateLog in as a member
Where & When

What’s happening this week.

The Studio Calendar

Classes, open studio, demos, workshops, and closures, all on one living calendar. Check it before you drive.

Open the calendar

The 2027 Studio Events

Every contest, party, free week, open house, Clayraoke night and raku workshop in 2027, plus our first Gallery Night.

See the whole year

The Weekly Class Schedule

The rhythm of a normal week: instructed class nights, open studio evenings, and weekend hours.

See the schedule
How It Actually Works

Which nights teach, and where your pottery goes.

One of these decides whether an instructor is standing next to you. The other is the four tables every piece of yours passes through.

Open Studio, Explained

An open studio class has four instructors on the floor teaching whatever you brought. Open studio time has nobody teaching, on purpose. Both spend one of your monthly classes.

See the difference

Pick-Up & Drop-Off Tables

Four tables around the kilns, and every piece you make passes through all four. Which one is which, why your maker’s mark matters, and what happens to work nobody collects.

See how pieces move
Kinley’s Corner

Know when your pottery goes in, and when it comes out.

See where the bisque kilns and the glaze kiln stand right now, from filling the tables to firing to cooling down, with the next load and unload dates and a live countdown to each one.

  • Drop-off deadlinesA countdown to the last closing time before each load goes in.
  • Pick-up deadlinesThe printed card for every unloading, with a countdown to the last day to take your pieces home.
  • Photos of each unloadingCovered until you choose to look, for anyone who would rather see their pieces in person first.
Check the kiln schedules

It updates on its own as each kiln moves along, so check it as often as you like.

The Clay Hole University

We built a whole university and left the doors unlocked.

More than two hundred written lessons across seventeen pottery areas, ordered the way a pot actually gets made. Free for anyone, member or not, with no login and no email to hand over. It is the largest thing on this website by a wide margin.

224Written lessons
17Pottery areas
1,652Quiz questions
4Certifications

Every lesson opens on its own page: what to do, in what order, and the parts that quietly go wrong. None of it sits behind a membership, because I wanted it open to everybody rather than walled off for the people who pay us.

Open the University
The Course Catalog

Seventeen pottery areas, in the order a pot actually gets made.

Tap any one and it drops you at that shelf. Inside each area the lessons run in the order you learn them, which is why tap centering sits with trimming rather than with throwing. The last one is not lessons at all.

01 Pottery Foundations5 lessons 02 Safety and Your Body4 lessons 03 Studio Life and Etiquette5 lessons 04 Preparing Your Clay9 lessons 05 The Pottery Wheel21 lessons 06 Advanced Throwing18 lessons 07 Hand Building16 lessons 08 Project Guides26 lessons 09 Trimming, Handles and Drying15 lessons 10 Surface and Decoration19 lessons 11 Glazing17 lessons 12 Firing and Fixing8 lessons 13 Other Ways to Find, Fire, and Form14 lessons 14 Selling Your Work7 lessons 15 Electives11 lessons 16 Graduation Day5 lessons 17 Thoughts from Dan9 essays • Take a Break4 to play with
Five Other Doors

The catalog is one way in. These are five more.

Same material underneath, sorted five different ways. By what you are trying to make, by what you can already do, by what a word actually means, by what went wrong, on paper, and every printable we sell on one shelf. Pick whichever one matches the question you have.

01

The Pottery Library

309 guides, tools and posts on one shelf, sorted by what you are trying to do rather than by where they live. Search it, or pick a shelf and read down it.

→ 02

The Pottery Skill Tree

66 skills in the order they depend on each other. Tick what you can already do and the board shows what just opened up, and what is still waiting on something earlier.

→ 03

The Pottery Dictionary

254 words and what they mean. The ones everybody in the room uses and nobody stops to explain. 64 of them link out to the full lesson.

→ 04

Every Printable We Sell

Every printable guide and paper template I sell, plus the three printed books, all on one shelf, with sample pages you can flip through first.

→ 05

The Pottery Failure Atlas, Printed and Bound

Every way a pot goes wrong, 54 of them, each one drawn, in an 80 page full color book that lies flat at the glaze table. The free version is in the catalog.

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Not Just a Pile of Blog Posts

It quizzes you, and it keeps score.

The catalog is the least of it. There is a layer underneath that most people do not find until the second time they open it.

  • A quiz on every lessonMore than fifteen hundred questions across the catalog, graded A+ to F. Nobody sees the result but you.
  • It remembers what you studiedTick a lesson off and its area shows a percentage. Come back in a month and the ticks are still there.
  • Search the whole catalogType handles, or cracks, or teapot, and the catalog narrows to the lessons about that.
  • A skill level on every lessonBeginner, intermediate or advanced, marked before you open it.
  • Every lesson, two lengthsComprehensive when you want all of it, Nutshell when you want the same teaching in far fewer words.
  • Our numbers, not a stranger’sBisque to cone 05, glaze to cone 5½. Every temperature in there is what our own kilns run.
Brand New to All of This?

Read these three first and the other two hundred make sense.

Pottery Foundations is the first area for a reason. About an hour of reading, and the whole process stops being a mystery.

01

The Full Pottery Process, Start to Finish

Every stage a piece moves through, in order, with the waiting written in.

→ 02

The Five Stages of Clay

Slip, plastic, leather hard, bone dry, fired. Which stage you are looking at decides what you can do to it next.

→ 03

The Many Myths of Pottery

Seventy things potters swear are true, fact checked one at a time. Air bubbles do not make pots explode.

→
Open Pottery Foundations

Free for everyone, member or not. Missing a lesson you want? Ask for it at the bottom of the catalog.

Clay Hole University · Glazing

More ways to ruin a good pot here than anywhere else.

Glazing is the last thing you do and the easiest thing to get wrong, so it gets its own topic upstairs. Five of its lessons, in the order they help. Same catalog, same quizzes, same two lengths.

Two of these have a certification attached

Brush-on glazes before your first glaze day, and dipping glazes before the buckets. The lessons teach the technique; the certifications are what open the shelves. Both live in Graduation Day.

01
Beginner

Getting the Most Out of the Mega Glaze Tool

A step by step walkthrough of the search tool, well past what most people use it for.

→ 02
Beginner

Glaze Brushing, Coat by Coat

Why the coat count matters, which direction each one goes, and what a glaze looks like when you have put on too little.

→ 03
Intermediate

How to Use Dipping Glazes

The technique itself, separate from the certification. Tongs, the count, overlaps, and what a dipped surface should look like before it dries.

→ 04
Intermediate

When to Use Celadon Glazes

Celadons pool in carved lines and vanish on flat walls. Knowing that in advance is the difference between a great pot and a disappointing one.

→ 05
Advanced

Glazing Big and Intricate Pottery Faster

Getting a large or heavily carved piece covered evenly without spending your entire night on one pot.

→
Open the glazing topic Get glaze certified
Certifications for Members

Earn your way into the good stuff.

Some of our equipment asks for half an hour of your life before it will love you back. Watch a video, learn the rules, sign your name. Then it’s all yours.

✓ About 25 minutes

Slab Rollers & Slab Molds

248 slab molds, from tiny trinkets to giant bowls. Some cost $600 to replace. The training is free, which is a much better deal.

Get certified
✓ About 30 minutes

Brush-On Glazes & Underglazes

Required before your first glaze day. The video, the rules, the signature. Your future mugs will thank you.

Get certified
✓ About 25 minutes

Dipping Glazes

The buckets. Glorious results, expensive to ruin, guarded accordingly. Get certified, then dunk away.

Get certified
✓ Safety & process

Raku Workshops

Open flame, hot tongs, big drama, unforgettable pots. Get safety certified before the next workshop lands on the calendar, and read how one actually runs while you wait.

Get certified
The Rest of the Toolkit

Twelve more you’ll want to use.

Less glamorous than a glaze wall, more useful than they look. Keeping track of what you have already earned, cleaning up after yourself, working out what went wrong in the kiln, doing the math you were going to guess at, watching people who are far better at this than we are, and telling us when we get something wrong.

Clay Hole Rewards

Tell it when you joined and which level you are on, and it lights up everything you have already earned and what lands next. Free firings, free clay, a shirt, and eventually free firings and clay for life.

See where you are

The Clean-Up Checklist

Tap the side you worked on and it hands you your list. Five minutes, every visit, and it is the entire reason this place looks the way it does.

Open the checklist

Why Did My Pottery Do That?

Forty-five faults diagnosed, from cracks and warping to glaze that ran onto the shelf. Find the symptom, get the cause, and find out whether the piece can be saved. Some of them cannot.

Find the fault

Your First Ten Pottery Sessions

Ten sessions on the wheel or ten at the tables, each with something to try, something to read and a plain test for when to move on. Both routes come with a free printable tracker.

Get the plan

Free Printable Trackers

Eighteen free sheets. A piece passport, a glaze log, a cylinder chart, a handmade dinnerware set for four or eight, kitchen and home swap lists, and the Skill Tree and the Mold Room on paper. Print one or print twenty. Nobody asks for an email.

Print a sheet

How Much Clay Do I Need?

Starting weights for sixty-seven forms, thrown and hand built, from an espresso cup to a fourteen inch platter. Plus how many of each you get out of a 25 lb bag.

Open the chart

Pottery Calculators

Shrinkage, firing cost, shelf space, drying time, bag math, a cone machine, and the full clay spec table. All tuned to the clays we actually stock.

Run the numbers

Glaze Combination Groups

The four Facebook groups where the best combos live, plus the one search trick that makes them ten times more useful. Borrow recipes from a quarter million potters.

Find combos

The Which-Level Quiz

Green, Yellow, Purple, or Black? Four questions and shelves drawn to actual scale. Let the quiz decide so you don’t have to.

Find your level

Tap Centering Practice

Getting a pot true for trimming is a rhythm, not a shove. Four techniques, plus a practice wheel that runs in your browser so you can find the beat while you wait for coffee.

Find the beat

Incredible Videos Worth Watching

Eight core skills, 24 free videos, 15 of the best potters on YouTube. None of them ours. We just did the digging so you don’t lose a Saturday to the algorithm.

Start watching

Suggestions, Complaints, Compliments & Ideas

Say your piece and hit send. It goes straight to me, not into a queue somebody gets to on Thursday. Put your name on it or stay completely anonymous. Both get read.

Tell me anything

Find something broken on this site and I pay you for it. Typos, dead links, a tool that will not load: $1 to $7 a find, first report gets it. How the bug bounty works.

Quick Buy Links

Six things members buy when they want ’em.

No digging through menus. In, out, back to the wheel.

Kiln Firings

Pay before drop-off, write the order number on your kiln ticket, done.

Pay for firing

Fresh Clay

All eight house clays by the bag, priced by your level color. Grab, pay, go make things.

Shop clay

Grab a Drink

Honor system, both of them. The fridges aren’t locked and the Keurig is yours. Take what you want, tap the matching price, checkout and get back to your wheel.

Cold drink Hot drink

Helpful Pottery Items

The short list of gear that has to be yours: apron, wire, clippers, approved kiln stuff.

See the list

Flux Glazes

The optional troublemakers. Fluxes make glazes melt, run, and get weird in the best possible way.

Shop fluxes

Pottery Gift Cards

The one on this list that is not for you. Twelve amounts, delivered by email, and it never expires. It spends on classes, clay and firings.

Send a gift card
New · The Unlimited Class Pass

Every class. Every open studio. As often as you want.

Add the Unlimited Class Pass to your membership and nobody counts your sessions again. Five instructed classes and three open studio sessions run every week, and every one of them is yours, plus the unlimited member overflow shelves.

  • It pays for itself fastA few visits past your Level’s usual count, and every session after that is studio time you are not paying a dollar more for.
  • Your Level stays your LevelGlazes, tools, slab molds, your own shelf and your clay discount stay exactly the same. Unlimited changes how often you come.
Go unlimited

Unlimited comes with five short rules about firing, glazing and clay, written for production potters. If you make your work here and fire it here, they change nothing for you.

Membership Resources

Everything a membership comes with, explained.

Whether it’s your first day or your five hundredth, these six cover the machinery. Your level. Your options. The ten rules that keep this place kind.

The classes you did not use are still yours

Miss a week. Miss a month. Miss a whole rough winter. Unused classes stack up with no cap and no expiration, and they are still sitting there whenever you get back to it. Canceling is the one thing that erases them, and nothing brings them back after that. How rollover works, and the one way to lose them.

Membership, Fully Explained

Levels, prices, shelves, the dot system, pausing, canceling, and what actually happens after you tap Join. Written so a twelve-year-old could follow it. You are at least that smart.

Read the explainer

The Welcome Booklet

Your first day, page by page. What to bring, where things live, how your first class actually goes. Read it before you walk in and you’ll feel like a regular by week two.

Open the booklet

The Clay Hole Commandments

Ten rules in fake King James English, printed on the wall and enforced with love. Four are about the studio. Six are about each other. Basically, don’t be an A-hole at The Clay Hole.

Read the commandments

The Heroes Discount

Teachers, military, first responders, healthcare workers, students, seniors, nonprofit staff, foster parents. 10 to 15% off every single month, forever, no code to remember.

See if you qualify

Options for Couples

Doing this with your person? There are two ways: one membership the two of you share, or a membership each with one shelf between you.

Compare both options

Upgrade Mid-Month

Outgrew your level three weeks before renewal? Pay the difference between your level and the one you want, and the new perks start the same day. No waiting for the 25th.

Upgrade your level
Someone lying awake at night surrounded by glowing question marks, mugs and vases
Clay Hole FAQs

It’s 1 a.m. and you suddenly have the most important question ever.

Good news: somebody already asked it. Prices, hours, what to wear, what to bring, how firing works, whether your teenager can come, what happens if you have never touched clay in your life. It’s all in there.

The one everybody asks quietly: am I going to be terrible at this? Yes. Gloriously. For about three weeks. Then something clicks, and you start texting photos of a mug to people who did not ask.

What if I’ve never touched clay? Can my teenager join? What does firing cost? When can I use open studio?
Visit the FAQs Page
If Life Gets Loud

Pause it. Don’t quit it.

Money gets tight. The calendar fills up. Something happens that nobody planned for. None of that has to cost you the one night a week that is actually yours, and a hard month is exactly when a person needs it most.

What a pause actually keeps ▾
  • Your shelfRight where you left it, with the half-finished piece still sitting on it.
  • Your classesEvery class you have stacked up is still there waiting. They do not expire.
  • Your rewards clockPaused months simply do not count. The clock stops instead of resetting.

That last one is the whole argument. A pause runs about a sixth of your membership and covers up to three months in a calendar year. Cancel, and the rewards card goes back to zero and starts over at one month, which is a real amount of money to hand back over a rough eight weeks.

And if you do need to go, go. We made that page just as carefully as this one.

The one I’d pick

Pause My Membership

Pay for the months you need and that is the end of your to-do list. No portal, no cancelling, no texting us to confirm.

Take the break

How to Cancel

Three taps in your own account. No phone call, no retention conversation, nobody to talk you out of it.

See how
Proof of Life

Class photos & member show & tell.

Real nights, real people, real pieces out of the kiln. Eight at a time, pulled at random from hundreds. Deal yourself a new hand as many times as you like. We’ll wait.

See hundreds more
How Every Class Begins

Nobody picks their own card.

Every class here starts the same way. Before anybody walks in, a positive affirmation card is already sitting at every seat. You do not get to pick yours. You get the one that was waiting for you.

Now the ritual lives here too. Tell the cards what to call you, and one of them comes and finds you.

There are a hundred of them.The hundred and first only ever happens in person.

Let a card find you

There is also a version that emails you one a morning until all hundred have found you.

The Virtual Tour

Walk the whole studio from your couch.

Seventeen stops, start to finish, in 360 degrees. The wheels, the slab rollers, the glaze wall, the kilns, the shelves, the wash pit and the rooms most people never think to ask about.

  • 17stops in one walk
  • 360°look anywhere you want

Tap the bubbles as you go and they answer the thing you were about to ask: what that machine does, where your shelf would live, how the clay gets reclaimed, which glazes are which. Some of them open the tool that goes with the spot you are standing in. A few of them are not information at all, and those are the ones worth hunting for.

Take the tour
Seasonal Pottery Ideas

Whatever the calendar says, there’s a project for it.

Kilns are slow. Start your holiday pieces before the holiday sneaks up on you. Ask us how we know.

Halloween

Monster mugs, witch boots, jack-o-lantern bowls, haunted lanterns. The kiln loves spooky season.

Get spooky

Christmas & Holidays

Ornaments, gift pieces, and holiday projects worth the kiln wait. Start in October.

Deck the shelves

Mother’s Day

Twenty gift ideas moms actually keep: love note dishes, herb strippers, garden markers, and more.

Make mom something
Is There Truth to It? You Decide.

Pages nobody asked for. You’re welcome.

Somewhere along the way we started writing guides that have no business existing. We regret nothing. People read these at 1 a.m. and show up to class two weeks later.

The nerdiest thing we have ever done

The Many Myths of Pottery

Air bubbles do not explode pots, and cone 5½ is not even a temperature. Seventy things potters swear are true, fact checked one at a time against Orton, the FDA, OSHA and actual published research.

Half of what beginners are afraid of turns out to be somebody repeating something they heard.

Bust some myths

The Clay Hole & Every Other Studio

Fourteen Utah studios side by side, every fact from their own websites. The matcher will send you somewhere else when somewhere else fits better.

See the comparison

Pottery & the 16 Personalities

All sixteen types, profiled: what you’ll love, what will drive you nuts. Find yours, then read your ex’s.

Find your type

Pottery by Zodiac Sign

What every sign does at a pottery wheel, what will test them, and what to buy them. There’s a birthday decoder. It knows about cusps.

Read your sign

Pottery & the 5 Love Languages

Whichever language you lead with, pottery serves the whole plate. Five deep dives and a two-minute quiz. Yes, we cited actual studies.

Take the quiz

Third Places in Utah

Not home, not work, the third one. Utah is short on them. Eleven kinds you can get to from the Wasatch Front, six questions that sort a real one from a nice one, and a note that we are not the cheapest answer on the list.

Find a third place
When It All Goes Wrong

Scream it into the void.

You centered it. You pulled it. Best wall you have ever had. Then it got weird, wobbled, and folded over on itself. Six weeks of work, one firing, and it is gone.

Some days it has nothing to do with clay at all. Either way, getting it out of your head is only the first half. The second half is choosing how it dies, and there are fifteen ways to do that, from a plain smash to a meteor to a black hole.

  • Nothing saves itNo draft, no history, no database. Close the tab and it never existed.
  • Nothing sends itWhat you type never leaves your screen. Let loose without filters.
  • Nobody reads itNot us, not the internet. Type the part you have been being polite about.
Open the void

Best used loudly. All caps is encouraged.

The Founder

Who is Dan Pearce?

Author, blogger, potter, single dad, and the guy who built this place. I spent years writing Single Dad Laughing for an audience of three million before trading most of my keyboard time for a pottery wheel and a very large glaze wall.

This studio is what happened next.

Meet Dan
Dan Pearce with a giant pottery piece at The Clay Hole
In His Own Words

The question that usually arrives angry.

Some questions are too big for a short answer at the front desk. I wrote this one out properly, on my own blog, under my own name.

Seventeen minutes

The Truth About The Clay Hole and AI

Why AI gets used in an art business, laid out one reason at a time. The energy and water argument. The jobs argument. The family members who have left the dinner table over it, and the parts I still question.

It is not written to win the argument, and it says so. It will not change the loudest minds, and anyone is free to read the whole thing and land somewhere different from where I did.

Read it
Also On Staff

Mud

Thirty-five pounds of miniature Australian Labradoodle. He is my dog, and on the days he decides to come to work he is the most popular person in the building.

That is not modesty. Members have walked straight past me without breaking stride to get to him. I said hello. They did not hear me. They were already on the floor.

Meet Mud
Two Minutes of Your Time

Help your future Clay Hole friends find you!

A stranger’s Google review helped you find this place. Right now somebody is googling pottery studios at 1 a.m., wondering if they’d fit in here. You’re the stranger now.

Leave an honest review. Not a glowing one. An honest one. Warts and all.

Leave a Google review Why I ask
Work With Us

We’re always looking for our next instructor.

Not because somebody is about to quit. Because people move, go back to school, have babies, take the other job. The studios that end up scrambling are the ones with nobody on the list.

Four Clay Hole staff members side by side, two in purple trade instructor shirts, one in a pink main instructor shirt and one in a baby blue open studio manager shirt, holding finished pottery

Trade instructors, most of all.

One shift a week, either side of the studio, in exchange for a Purple Level Membership. No teaching background required, and you do not need to throw.

This is the door most of our instructors came through.

There are three ways in: wheel throwing, hand-building, and the trade program. Evenings and mornings are separate lists. The whole ask is one email, and the trick is sending it before there is an opening. Also, there is a dog.

Visit the Jobs Page
Teach Your Own Thing

There is a second room in this building, and it is not for pottery.

The Artists Workshop is a classroom with long tables, 28 stools and its own way in. Independent artists rent it by the day or the evening and teach the thing they already know how to do. Glass, fiber, wire, paint, paper, plants, whatever works on a table. We build the event page, run the checkout and handle the waivers. You teach. We do not fill the seats.

The Artists Workshop

Rates start at $150 for a Monday to Thursday daytime block, and the rent is the same whether four people come or twenty. Fill the seats yourself and there is no commission at all.

Rent the room

How to Fill Your Art Workshop

When seats actually sell, who to ask first, what a listing has to answer in ten seconds, how to price it, and seven messages ready to copy.

Read the guide

No wheels, no kilns, no clay. Selling the tickets is the host’s job, and it pays like one. If somebody you know teaches something that works on a table, this is the room for it.

Bring The Whole Group

Bring 10 people. Bring 48. Watch what three hours of mud does.

Real clay, real wheels, real instructors, and three hours where nobody in the room can be on a phone. Everybody is equally bad at it on purpose, and shared incompetence bonds people faster than shared success ever has.

Private Parties

Family reunions, girls’ nights, birthdays, bachelorettes, and online groups meeting in person for the first time. Ages 6 and up, up to 48 people.

Plan a private party

Team Events & Corporate

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