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January 23 and September 11, 10 AM to 3 PM. Try the wheel with an instructor beside you, build something by hand at the tables, look around the studio and meet the people who teach here. No experience, no sign-up and no cost. Everybody signs the studio waiver first.
Same free day each time: the wheel, the tables and the whole studio, 10 AM to 3 PM. Tap a date to jump to it.
Each colored date is an open house. Months that have passed fade out, and this month is marked.
Three weeks into January, trade the dusty gym membership for a free Saturday at the wheel and the tables. Bring the friend who has been saying they want to try pottery since last year.
The vacations are done and the calendar finally has room in it. Start in September and there is time to make a whole shelf of handmade gifts before Christmas.
The Clay Hole, 12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, UT 84020. Directions.
Come any time between 10 and 3, stay as long as you like, and leave muddier than you arrived. Several of our pottery instructors are there all day to explain, teach, help, and make sure everybody has a good time.
Sit down at a real wheel with an instructor beside you and try throwing. It is harder than it looks and more fun than it has any right to be. Most first pots collapse at least once. That is the best part.
Pinch a little bowl, coil a big one, roll a slab and cut shapes, or sculpt a tiny creature. Hand building is relaxed, it is great for kids, and plenty of potters here make their best work this way.
The wheels, the glaze wall, the slab rollers and slab molds, the kilns and the tools members use every day. We will also have games and special day-of discounts for anyone who decides to join.
Our 360 virtual tour starts at the front doors and lets you wander the whole building from your couch. The member shelves are a look-from-the-doorway stop on the day, because members keep hundreds of pieces in progress there.
Tap who you are bringing, and we will tell you how the day goes for them.
Pick an answer on the left. Each one has the details that matter for that person.
A turn on the wheel plus a look around takes about an hour. If the wheels are busy when you arrive, try hand building first and grab a wheel when one opens up. Sign the waiver before you come and skip that step at the door.
Kids 6 and up are welcome. They stay with you the whole time, parents sign the waiver for them, and parents cover anything that gets broken. Hand building is relaxed and great for kids.
Free, no sign-up, no experience needed, and an instructor at every wheel. Send them the waiver ahead of time and the hardest part is already done.
Plenty of the people who come are already potters. If you run a studio of your own or belong to one somewhere else, come say hello and talk pottery. We are not trying to recruit you.
Saturday open studio does not run on an open house day. The whole studio goes to the open house, and you are welcome to come show it off. Bring the friends who have been asking what you do here.
No cost and no sign-up. Everyone who comes in signs the studio waiver before they start, and parents sign it for their kids.
Members here are 18 and up, or 14 and up alongside a parent who is also a member. For the open house we open it up to ages 6 and up, so the whole family can see what this is.
You are welcome to take it home, but it goes home wet, unfired and fragile, and it will never be finished pottery without the kiln. Come to have fun rather than to make a keepsake.
Clay gets everywhere, especially at the wheel. It washes out, so an apron is optional. Short sleeves, or sleeves that roll up, make life easier.
The Clay Hole runs on monthly membership, from $145 a month at Green Level. Anyone who joins at the open house gets that day’s special discount.
Nobody has to wait for an open house. First-time members can start this month with one of our current new member deals.
None. Most people who come have never touched a pottery wheel. Plenty of others are already potters, and they are welcome too.
Yes. No charge to come in, try the wheel or build something by hand. Everyone signs the studio waiver first.
No. Just sign the waiver, ideally before you arrive, and come any time between 10 AM and 3 PM.
Yes, if they are 6 or older. They stay with you the whole time, you are responsible for anything they damage, and you sign the waiver for them.
As long as you like. Some people come for half an hour, some stay most of the day. A turn on the wheel plus a look around takes about an hour.
You can. It will be wet, unfired and fragile, so most people come to play rather than to make a keepsake. Finished, fired pottery is what membership is for.
Please do. We would love to meet you and talk pottery. No recruiting, just hellos.
The Clay Hole, 12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, UT 84020. Directions.
January 23 and September 11, 10 AM to 3 PM. Put both in the calendar and send them the waiver today.
Each open house has its own page: January 23 and September 11. Every event of the year lives on our 2027 events page.
Most of these are for members. Every kind of event on the calendar has a page like this one.
New member deal
30 of 30 discounted spots left this month
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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.
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That is how we work out where the demand actually is. The rest is so we know who to tell.
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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.
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