Pottery Classes Near Lindon, Utah
The Clay Hole is a community pottery studio in Draper, about half an hour north of Lindon. Wheels, hand building tables, slab molds, glaze and the kilns, on one monthly membership.
A little bit of country is a fine motto and it does not come with a kiln. Membership is the only way in, and there are no drop-in classes.
The drive from Lindon
Out to the freeway and north. Lindon is strung along State Street the way it always has been, so which on-ramp you use depends on which end you live at.
- West to I-15 at exit 273 or exit 275.
- North over the Point of the Mountain to exit 289, Bangerter Highway.
- West on Bangerter to the 200 W exit, then right on 13490 S.
- Pony Express Rd past IKEA and Living Spaces. We are on the left.
Fifteen to seventeen freeway miles plus the streets at each end, so around half an hour. Long enough that you will want to make the trip count.
No station in Lindon. Orem and American Fork are the nearest and neither connection lands you close to us, so plan on driving.
When you get here
Free and shared with a few other businesses, and anything not marked reserved is yours. No gravel, no field, no waving anyone through.
Named after a tree, and they spelled it wrong
Settled in 1861 and known for forty years as String Town, because the houses were strung out in a line along the road between Orem and Pleasant Grove rather than gathered into blocks. It is a plain description that became a name.
Around 1901 the town renamed itself after an old linden tree. Then it spelled it Lindon. Nobody fixed it, and now it is on the water bills and the city hall and the high school jerseys. Lindon Days still runs a Stringtown Fair, so the older name outlived the correction.
The best building in town is older than both names. The cider mill went up in 1857 out of honeycomb limestone hauled from American Fork Canyon, cut and laid by hand. Local material, worked on site, still standing a hundred and sixty nine years later.
Which is the argument for making things out of what is nearby
Nobody shipped that limestone in. Somebody looked at the canyon, decided the rock would do, and built with it. Clay works the same way and always has.
A big room, and everything in it is included
The studio runs to nearly 10,000 square feet. Membership covers the room, the equipment, the classes and the glaze. You buy clay by the bag and you pay for firing by the size of the piece. Nothing else is metered.
- Four instructors working the room in every instructed class, so nobody sits stuck for twenty minutes.
- 150+ underglazes alongside the glaze wall, plus dipping buckets on the higher levels.
- Bisque firing is free. Glaze firing is 5 cents a cubic inch, $4.80 minimum.
- Clay starts at $28 a 25 pound bag, and the discount grows with your level.
- Your own shelf to leave work on, which is the thing home potters never have.
A little bit of country, and a long way from anywhere to fire a pot
The motto is the city's own and it is accurate. Horses and acreage inside the city limits are real here, not a listing description. There is a century farm still run by the same family, and there is a software company headquartered two minutes from a pasture.
What country living does not hand you is a kiln. Or a slab roller, or six hundred and fifty glazes, or somebody who can look at your foot ring and say what went wrong. Those live in rooms, and rooms cost more than most people can justify alone.
Half an hour north is one of those rooms, shared by enough people to make the equipment make sense.
- Twenty nine wheels, four kilns and a glaze wall, none of which fit in a garage.
- Open studio Friday evening and both weekend mornings, on top of the classes.
- Your own shelf, so a half hour drive is one trip a week, not three.
- Bisque firing is included, and glaze firing is charged by the size of the piece.
Four levels, one monthly price
Every level gets the same studio, the same equipment and the same glaze wall. What changes is how many instructed classes are included, how much shelf you get, and how much comes off a bag of clay.
| Level | Monthly | Classes included |
|---|---|---|
| Green Level | $145 a month | 4 classes a month |
| Yellow Level | $170 a month | 5 classes a month |
| Purple Level | $200 a month | 6 classes a month |
| Black Level | $275 a month | 8 classes a month |
Open studio time is on top of the included classes, at every level. Clay discounts run from nothing on Green Level up to $6 off each bag on Black Level.
The part we would rather you read now than find out later
There are no drop-in classes and no single sessions. Membership renews on the 25th of each month and canceling has to happen before the 24th. Fired work has to be collected within two weeks of the kiln being unloaded. And the cheapest level shows you a real fraction of what a busy month here looks like.
If that list makes membership the wrong shape for you, it is better to know in the first minute than in the fourth week.
When the studio is open
| When | Hours | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Monday daytime | 10:30 AM to 2 PM | Instructed class |
| Monday to Thursday evenings | 6:30 PM to 10 PM | Instructed class |
| Friday evening | 6:30 PM to 10 PM | Open studio |
| Saturday and Sunday mornings | 10 AM to 1:30 PM | Open studio |
Doors open 15 minutes before a session starts, and the studio closes for fourteen holidays a year. The full list, with this year's dates, is on the class schedule page.
Other pottery near Lindon
No studio in Lindon. It is boxed in by two towns that do have one, which is either convenient or irritating depending on the evening.
- Make your own
The Kreative Kiln
Pleasant Grove, immediately north of you. Six week wheel throwing at $299, hand building, a $65 wheel workshop, and they will fire work made elsewhere, which is the thing most people in Lindon actually need.
- Make your own
SCERA Art Studios
Orem, immediately south of you. Adult and teen wheel pottery, a homeschool section, kids classes at $65 a month and a monthly ceramics evening at $20. No open studio and no membership, and their published schedule runs through April.
- Make your own
Utah Center for the Ceramic Arts
Provo, about fifteen minutes down. Seven wheels, a slab roller, an extruder, studio glazes and two kilns, with classes, open studio time and memberships. It opened in 2025 and its site blocks automated readers, so call rather than assume.
If what you want is somebody to fire a piece you made at home, The Kreative Kiln is five minutes away and we do not offer that at all. Our kilns fire members' work only.
What people from Lindon ask
How far is The Clay Hole from Lindon?
About half an hour. West to I-15 at exit 273 or 275, then north over the Point of the Mountain. Fifteen to seventeen freeway miles plus the surface streets.
Is half an hour worth it?
Only if you are going to use the place. At this distance a membership makes sense for somebody coming once or twice a week with a shelf of work going, and makes very little sense for somebody coming once a month.
Can I take a single pottery class instead of joining?
No. Monthly membership is the only way in. No drop-in classes and no single sessions, so there is no way to test the drive cheaply, which is a fair thing to hold against us.
Do I need my own tools or clay?
No tools. Membership covers the wheels, the hand building tables, the slab molds, the glaze wall and the classes. Clay is by the bag at the front desk, so there is no delivery to wait in for.
Do you take beginners?
Most people who join have never touched a wheel. Somebody cut and laid the stone for the 1857 cider mill without having done it before either, and that one is still up.
Will you fire something I made at home?
No. The kilns fire members' work only. The Kreative Kiln in Pleasant Grove does fire outside work and it is five minutes from you, so that is the answer for anyone with a piece and no kiln.
What happens if you join this week
You pick a level, sign the waiver, and turn up to your first class. Somebody shows you where everything is, you get a shelf, and you put your hands in clay the same night. Most people who come from Lindon and join here have never touched a wheel.
- Nothing to bring. What to wear is covered on the what to wear page.
- The first day page walks through the whole first visit, in order.
- Free lessons for everything else live in Clay Hole University, whether or not you ever join.
Questions are quickest by text. The studio line is 385-241-5528. We are at 12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, UT 84020.