One night that is yours. You came for the hours where your phone is face down and your hands are too covered in clay to reach for it. A hard month is exactly when a person needs that.
Your reason is reason enough. Money got tight. The calendar filled up. Something went sideways that nobody planned for. None of that is a character flaw.
Two taps, and your to-do list is empty. Pay for the months you need. No portal step, nothing to cancel, no text to confirm. We move your billing date, and it starts again on its own.
Fill the seats yourself and keep the profit. There is no commission on a ticket you sell. After the room rent and 2.7 percent card processing, the rest is yours.
We do not fill your seats. So we wrote down the plan we would follow, for artists who would rather make things than sell them.
We love helping promote, for a cut. An email list over 1,000 people and a social following around 3 million worldwide, though most of it is nowhere near Draper.
Certifications
Brush-On Glazes & Underglazes
Required before you glaze anything. Watch the video, learn the rules, pass the quiz, and the 650+ wall is yours.
One night that is yours. You came for the hours where your phone is face down and your hands are too covered in clay to reach for it. A hard month is exactly when a person needs that.
Your reason is reason enough. Money got tight. The calendar filled up. Something went sideways that nobody planned for. None of that is a character flaw.
Two taps, and your to-do list is empty. Pay for the months you need. No portal step, nothing to cancel, no text to confirm. We move your billing date, and it starts again on its own.
Fill the seats yourself and keep the profit. There is no commission on a ticket you sell. After the room rent and 2.7 percent card processing, the rest is yours.
We do not fill your seats. So we wrote down the plan we would follow, for artists who would rather make things than sell them.
We love helping promote, for a cut. An email list over 1,000 people and a social following around 3 million worldwide, though most of it is nowhere near Draper.
Certifications
Brush-On Glazes & Underglazes
Required before you glaze anything. Watch the video, learn the rules, pass the quiz, and the 650+ wall is yours.
Every other month, for one whole week, members can walk in with anybody who has never touched clay here, and it costs them nothing. No guest pass, no RSVP, no list at the front desk. Pick any class or open studio that week, send them the waiver, and bring as many people as you like.
Classes run Monday 10:30 AM to 2 PM, Monday through Thursday 6:30 to 10 PM, open studio Friday 6:30 to 10 PM, and Saturday and Sunday 10 AM to 1:30 PM. Pick whichever one your friend can actually make.
Three steps, and one of them is fun
How a free week works
There is nothing to sign up for. That is the part people struggle to believe.
Send them the waiver
Everybody who walks in signs one, guests included. It takes two minutes on a phone and it has to be done before they get here. Here is the link.
Walk in together
No RSVP, no sign-up sheet, no text to us first. Pick any class or open studio inside that week, come the way you always do, and bring them with you.
Teach them everything
You are their instructor for the night. You wedge their clay, show them where the sponges live, and talk them down when the pot goes sideways. It will go sideways.
The rules, all six of them
Brand new people only
One free visit per person, ever. If they have already been in this building, the Bring a Friend Pass is what they want instead.
They have to be 18
Eighteen and up, every free week, every year. No exceptions on this one.
Clay is the one thing they buy
They can grab their own bag, starting at $28, or you can split yours with them. Everything else in the building is covered.
Your tools become their tools
Whatever your Level opens up, they get to use for the night. Wheels included.
Bring as many as you want
One friend, four friends, a different one every night that week. There is no cap.
Go to a class on your own first
You cannot bring a guest to your own first class. Come once, learn where things live, then come back with your people.
Who to bring
Everybody already has a list
They have just never written it down. Tap who you are thinking of.
Who are you bringing?
Pick an answer on the left. Each one comes with the case for bringing them and the week that suits them best.
Best week: May 17 to 23
Bring your mom
She has been asking what you actually do in here for a year. The May week lands the week after Mother’s Day, which makes it a very easy invitation.
The one who has heard about this place two hundred times and has never once seen the inside of it. A Friday night open studio during a free week is a date that costs nothing but clay.
They are wrong, and it takes about ninety minutes to prove it. Tell them everybody is bad at it on the first night. That is not a bug, it is the entire first night.
Free weeks are the best weeks we run. Here is all of it, before you send the first text.
You are the instructor
We are not assigning your guest a teacher for the night. You are it. Our staff will absolutely help, the way they help everybody, and the person responsible for your guest is you.
The night still counts as one of yours
Free means free for them. Your night comes off your monthly classes exactly the way it normally would, and bringing a guest never costs you an extra class.
One free visit, and that is it
Everyone gets one. After that they are a member or a guest on a paid pass, and both of those are good outcomes.
If they want to stay
Every free week there is a deal for guests that beats the new member deal on this website. It is good until midnight on the night they visit, and we tell them about it in person.
If they do not join, the pot is yours
A piece still has to dry, be bisqued, glazed and fired, and a guest cannot come back to do any of it. Decide before they sit down whether anything is going home.
Tell people what it was like
A stranger’s review is how most people find this place. If your guest had a good night, a Google review helps more than anything we could say.
Questions
Questions we get every single time
How many friends can I bring?
As many as you want, across as many nights of that week as you want. There is no cap and no per-night limit, just the number of beginners one person can reasonably look after.
Does bringing somebody cost me a class?
Your night counts as one of your classes, exactly like any other night. Bringing a guest does not add a charge or cost you an extra class.
Do I need to tell anybody they are coming?
No. No RSVP, no message to the studio, no name on a list. Sign the waiver, walk in together, and that is it.
Can they get on a wheel?
Yes. For that night your guest has access to whatever your Level gives you, wheels very much included. Plenty of first-timers do better hand building, so a table and a slab can make a better first night than a wheel.
What does it cost them?
The visit is free. Clay is the one thing that is not: a bag starts at $28, or you can hand them a chunk of yours. If they make something they want to keep, firing works the same as it does for you.
Can somebody come to more than one free week?
One free visit per person, ever. After that they join, or they come back on a Bring a Friend Pass, which runs all year.
Can I bring somebody if I just joined?
Go to one class on your own first. Teaching somebody where the sponges live works a lot better once you know where the sponges live.
Pick one person
Text them tonight
The week is only seven days long, and everybody who waits until Saturday ends up bringing nobody. Send the waiver now and the rest is easy.
Every rule, the invitation text we wrote for you and the answers for the person you invite live on the free week page. Every event of the year lives on our 2027 events page.
Also in 2027
Six more ways to spend 2027 here
Every kind of event on the calendar has a page like this one.
Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
Opens in a new window.
New member deal
30 of 30 discounted spots left this month
Every month we discount 30 new memberships. Then that is it until the 1st.
Tell us where to send it and this month’s deal lands in your inbox. If this month runs out, you get next month’s before it opens.
Almost done
Where should we send it?
Done
On its way.
It should land in the next few minutes. One thing while you wait: we are members only and we do not run walk-in tours, so the virtual tour is the closest you can get to standing in one.
Would you want to know if a Clay Hole opened near you?
We started in Draper, Utah, and we would like to be in more places than that. Where they go next is the part we have not worked out yet.
Where are you?
The zip code is the part that counts.
That is how we work out where the demand actually is. The rest is so we know who to tell.
Got it
You are on the map.
Being straight with you: this could be a long wait, and we will not email you in the meantime. If your area is where the numbers land, you will be the first to know.
