Pottery Classes Near Taylorsville, Utah
The Clay Hole is a community pottery studio in Draper, about twenty minutes south of Taylorsville. Wheel work, hand building, slab molds, glaze and kiln time, all on one monthly membership.
Taylorsville is good at borrowing other people's buildings. This is one more. Membership is the only way in, with no drop-in classes and no single sessions.
The drive from Taylorsville
East to the freeway then south, or Bangerter the whole way if you are already on the west side of the city.
- East on 4700 South or 5400 South to I-15, then south. Or Bangerter Highway south.
- I-15 to Exit 289, Bangerter Highway, or stay on Bangerter to its south end.
- West on Bangerter to the 200 W exit, then right on 13490 S to Pony Express Rd.
- Past IKEA and Living Spaces. We are on the left.
About twelve miles, eighteen to twenty minutes. Bangerter is the faster route outside rush hour and the slower one inside it.
Nothing useful. Everyone drives this one.
When you get here
Parking is free and shared with a few other businesses. Anything not marked reserved is yours, and it belongs to the building rather than to the county.
A city whose best buildings all belong to somebody else
The Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center is the county's. The five thousand seat arena is the college's. Valley Regional Park, all ninety acres of it with the disc golf and the pool, is the county's too.
Taylorsville is the geographic middle of the valley and it has spent thirty years hosting other people's institutions well. Utah Symphony, Utah Opera and Ballet West all play in a building the city did not pay for.
It became a city on 1 July 1996, the year Utah turned a hundred, which is why it calls itself the Centennial City. In 2026 Taylorsville Dayzz ran its thirtieth year in the same summer the city turned thirty. The festival and the city have the same birthday.
Get the spelling right
It is Dayzz, with two z's, and a Taylorsville resident will tell you so before you have finished the word. It is run by a volunteer committee rather than a city department, which is the other thing they will tell you.
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.
You already drive somewhere else for everything good
That is not an insult, it is the arrangement. Taylorsville sends people to a county arts center, a college arena and a county park, and everyone is used to the idea that the thing worth doing is a short drive away.
So twenty minutes south is not a new behavior. It is the same behavior with a different destination, and this one you cannot watch from a seat.
The drive out is also twenty minutes of nothing being asked of you, which on a weeknight is most of the value.
- Four instructed classes a month at the lowest level, eight at the highest.
- Open studio Friday evening and both weekend mornings, on top of the classes.
- Your own shelf, so the project is not living in your car.
- Seven days a week, which beats a run of dates on a season brochure.
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 Taylorsville
Nothing inside Taylorsville. Here is what is reachable and which of them is closest.
- Make your own
Cottonwood Clay Studio
7587 S State St in Midvale, east across the valley. Taught classes Monday through Friday. Open studio there is for people enrolled in a current class, not for everyone.
- Paint your own
Color Me Mine West Jordan
3751 W Center Park Dr, south of you near Jordan Landing. Pre-made pieces, you decorate, they fire. Easy, quick and not the same thing.
We could not find anywhere inside Taylorsville to make the piece yourself. For the geographic center of the valley that is a strange gap, and consistent with everything else on this page.
What people from Taylorsville ask
How far is The Clay Hole from Taylorsville?
About twelve miles, eighteen to twenty minutes. Bangerter Highway runs to the exact freeway exit we use, so from the west side of the city it is close to a straight line.
Can I take a single pottery class instead of joining?
No. Monthly membership is the only way in. A one night class sends you home with wet clay and no way to fire it. Cottonwood Clay in Midvale runs taught courses if that is the shape you want.
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 and firing is by the size of the piece.
Do you take beginners?
Hardly anybody turns up already knowing how. Every instructed class has instructors working the room.
What are the class times?
Instructed classes Monday through Thursday evenings plus Monday daytime. Friday evening and both weekend mornings are open studio. No season and no subscription brochure.
Is there parking?
Yes, free, and shared with a few other businesses in the lot. Anything not marked reserved for one of them is fair game.
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 Taylorsville 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.