for free week.
Six times a year, every other month, we throw the door open. For one whole week you can walk somebody in here who has never touched clay, and it costs them nothing. No guest pass to buy. No message to send us. No list at the front desk.
You just show up with your people and put mud in their hands. As many of them as you want.
The next free week is coming up. Scroll down for the dates.
Every free week, all year
Six weeks a year, every other month, Monday through Sunday. Every class and every open studio inside those seven days counts.
- September 14 to 20, 2026 Add to calendar for September 14 to 20, 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- November 16 to 22, 2026 Add to calendar for November 16 to 22, 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- January 11 to 17, 2027 Add to calendar for January 11 to 17, 2027 (opens in a new tab)
- March 15 to 21, 2027 Add to calendar for March 15 to 21, 2027 (opens in a new tab)
- May 17 to 23, 2027 Add to calendar for May 17 to 23, 2027 (opens in a new tab)
- July 12 to 18, 2027 Add to calendar for July 12 to 18, 2027 (opens in a new tab)
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.
How a free week works
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 (opens in a new tab). Text it to them right now and the rest of this is easy.
Walk in together
No RSVP. No sign-up sheet. No text to us first. Pick any class or any open studio inside that week, show up the way you always do, and bring them with you.
Teach them everything
You are their instructor for the night. You wedge their clay, you show them where the sponges live, and you 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. Not one per week. If they have already set foot in this building, this is not their week, and the Bring a Friend Pass is what they want instead.
They have to be 18
No exceptions on this one, and please do not ask us to make one. Eighteen and up, every free week, every year.
Clay is the one thing they buy
They can grab their own bag starting at $28, or you can split yours with them. Either way works. Everything else in the building is covered.
Your tools become their tools
Whatever your Level opens up, they get to use it for the night. Wheels included. A Black Level Member is handing their guest the run of the whole building.
Bring as many as you want
One friend, four friends, a different one every night that week. There is no cap. There is only the small matter of every single one of them being yours to look after.
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.
The stuff nobody puts on a flyer
Free weeks are the best weeks we run. They are also the weeks where somebody shows up expecting a class and finds out their friend is the class. So here is all of it, out loud, before you invite anybody.
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, but the person responsible for that human is you.
The night still counts as one of yours
Free means free for them. Your night is your night, same as any other night you show up, and it comes off your monthly classes exactly the way it normally would.
One free visit, and that is it
Nobody gets to ride six free weeks a year forever. Everyone gets one. After that they are a member or they are a guest on a paid pass, and both of those are good outcomes.
They might hate it
Some people sit down at a wheel and something in them clicks over and never clicks back. Some people wash their hands at the end and never think about clay again. You will not know which one you brought until you bring them.
Who to bring
Everybody already has a list. They have just never written it down.
- The one who says “I could never do that.” Those are the best ones. They are wrong, and it takes about ninety minutes to prove it.
- Your mom. She has been asking what you actually do in here for a year and nodding politely at the answer.
- The kid who moved out. Two hours, same table, both sets of hands busy. People say things at a worktable that they will not say across a dinner table.
- Your friend who is having a rough year. Clay is loud. It is very hard to think about anything else while a pot is going wrong in your hands.
- Your person. The one who has heard about this place two hundred times and has never once seen the inside of it.
- The coworker you actually like. There is a version of that friendship that lives outside of work. This is a cheap way to find out.
Pick one. Text them tonight. The week is only seven days long and everybody who waits until Saturday ends up bringing nobody.
We wrote the text for you
The invitation is not the hard part. Typing it is the hard part. Tap who you are inviting, copy the message, and go be a good friend.
Hey, so this is a weird one. There is a pottery studio I go to and one week a year they let members bring people in completely free. No catch. Want to come make something terrible with me?
Then send the waiver too. They cannot walk in without it, and the number one reason a guest gets turned around at the door is that nobody sent them this link.
What they will say, and what you say back
Nobody says yes on the first text. Here is the script for the second one.
Everyone is bad at it. That is not a bug in the first night, it is the entire first night. The pots people brag about for years are almost never the ones they made well.
There is no money. That is the whole reason this week exists. The most they will ever spend is a bag of clay, and you can just split yours.
Nobody in this building was, right up until the night somebody sat them down at a wheel. Creativity is not a personality type. It is a Tuesday you did not have plans for.
Two hours, once. You can stay for the whole class or leave when your hands are tired. Nobody is checking.
Yes. That is exactly why you are asking. People want to be shown the thing you love by the person who loves it.
Next time is two months away, and the one after that is two months after that. Show them the dates. Watch how fast “next time” turns into this time.
Somebody just invited you to a pottery studio
Which probably means you are currently googling whether you are going to embarrass yourself. You are not. Here is the whole night, start to finish, so you can stop wondering.
- It costs you nothing. Not a class fee, not a door fee, not a deposit. The only thing anybody pays for is a bag of clay, and your friend can split theirs with you.
- Sign the waiver before you come. Two minutes on your phone. This is the one thing you have to do in advance, and without it we cannot let you in the building.
- Wear clothes you do not love. Clay comes out of most things, but it does not come out of everything, and you will end up wearing more of it than you expect. Short nails help. Leave the nice sleeves at home.
- You do not need to be good at this. Nobody in the room was good at this. Half of them still are not, and they have been coming for a year. It is a room full of adults cheerfully making lumpy bowls.
- Your friend is your teacher. They will get you set up, show you how to wedge, and sit next to you while it goes wrong. Our staff are all over the floor too, so ask anybody anything.
- You have to be 18. That one is firm.
If they want to stay
Every free week we put together a deal for guests that is better than the new member deal anybody can find on this website. We are not going to print it here, because it changes and because we would rather tell somebody about it while they are standing in the building with clay still on their hands.
It is good until midnight on the night they visit. Not the next morning. Midnight.
If they miss the deadline, the regular new member deal is still sitting right there. It is just not this one.
And if they do not join, the pot is yours
Here is the part everybody forgets on a free night. A piece is not finished when your friend walks out. It has to dry, it has to get bisqued, it has to get glazed, and it has to go through a glaze firing. That is a couple of weeks of steps, and your guest is not a member, so they cannot come back in and do any of them.
Which means you do it. You trim it, you glaze it, you pay the firing, and you get it across town to them.
Sometimes that is a genuine pleasure. You were making your mom a mug and you were always going to finish it.
Sometimes it is three lopsided bowls and a pinch pot you did not ask for.
So decide which one this is before they sit down. There is nothing wrong with telling somebody straight out that tonight is just for the fun of it and nothing is going home with anybody. People have a great night either way, and it is a much easier conversation to have at the start than two weeks later.
Tell people what this place is like
A stranger’s review is how most of the people in this building found it, including, probably, you. For a studio our size that is not a nice extra. It is the whole marketing department.
So we are asking everybody, members and guests, and we are asking for honest ones. If your night was fine but not amazing, write that. A page of perfect scores that nobody believes is worth less to us than one review that sounds like an actual person had an actual evening.
Sixty seconds, straight to the box
This link opens Google’s review window with the stars and the text field already up. No searching, no scrolling past our hours.
Leave a Google review (opens in a new tab)Want to know why we keep asking?
There is a whole page about what reviews actually do for a place like this, and every other spot you can leave one.
Read that page (opens in a new tab)Questions we get every single time
How many friends can I actually 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. The only real ceiling is how many beginners one person can reasonably keep an eye on at once, and that number is lower than you think it is.
Does bringing somebody cost me one of my classes?
Your night counts as one of your classes, exactly the way it does on any other night you come in. Bringing a guest does not add a charge and it does not cost you an extra class. It is just a normal night for you with a beginner attached.
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, that is it. This is the part people struggle to believe.
Can they get on a wheel?
Yes. For that night your guest has access to whatever your Level gives you access to, wheels very much included. If you are a Purple Level Member, they are working with Purple Level tools.
Worth knowing: a lot of first-timers do better hand-building than throwing, and there is no shame in starting them at a table with a slab of clay instead of on a wheel.
What does it cost them?
The visit itself is free. Clay is the one thing that is not: a bag starts at $28, or you can hand them a chunk of yours and call it even. If they end up making 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. Not one per week and not one per year. After that first night they either join or they come back on a Bring a Friend Pass (opens in a new tab), which runs all year long.
What if my friend has been here before?
Then free week is not for them, and we would rather say that plainly than have you find out at the door. Free weeks exist to get brand new people through the door for the first time. A friend who has already been in comes back on a Bring a Friend Pass instead.
Can I bring somebody if I just joined?
Go to one class on your own first. You cannot bring a guest to your own first night. It is not a punishment, it is just that teaching somebody where the sponges live works a lot better if you know where the sponges live.
Can they bring a kid?
Guests have to be 18 or older during a free week. No exceptions, and this one is not up for negotiation at the front desk.
What do they take home?
Whatever they make, once it has dried and been fired, which takes a couple of weeks the same as it does for everybody.
The catch is that a guest is not a member, so they cannot come back in to trim it, glaze it or collect it. If your friend does not join, finishing that piece and getting it to them is your job. Worth deciding before they start, because “we are just here for fun tonight” is a completely reasonable plan.
Go text them.
Not tomorrow, not the day before it starts. Right now, while you still remember which person you thought of when you read the list.
Nobody has ever regretted being the friend who dragged somebody somewhere good.
Still stuck on something? Text the studio at 385-241-5528 and somebody will sort it out.