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.
The biggest party of the year, with double the raffle
A Saturday night in June, the whole studio, a proper potluck, your own drinks, the biggest raffle we run all year at 8 sharp, two pottery games and crowd bingo. This is the one everybody talks about until next summer.
Saturday, June 19, 20276 to 10 PM. The raffle is at 8 sharp.
$3 a personBought here on our website, up to two per member.
Members and one guest eachFor current and paused members. Your guest is 18 or older, unless they are a minor member coming with you.
Bring a dish to shareAnd your own drinks. We provide plates, cups, utensils and plenty of ice water.
--Days--Hours--Minutes--Seconds
Until the doors open at 6 PM on Saturday, June 19
The party is on right now. Raffle at 8 sharp.That was a great night. The next party is on our 2027 events page.
Tickets
Three dollars a person, and why there is a ticket at all
Every party this year has a $3 ticket to RSVP. It covers the basic costs of the night, and it keeps the room from filling past the point where anybody can enjoy it. Tickets are first come, first served, and you can buy yours as far ahead as you like to as many parties as you like.
Who
Members, plus one
You need to be a current or paused member of The Clay Hole. Bring one guest at most. Each person needs their own ticket, so buy two if your plus-one is coming.
How
Buy it on our website
Up to two tickets per member: one for you, one for your guest. Your name goes on the list the moment you check out.
If plans change
No refunds, but you can pass it on
Tickets are not refundable. If you cannot make it, give your ticket to another member and text our events line with their name.
The party does not use one of your monthly classes. Events line: 385-441-6379.
The night
Four hours, start to finish
6:00 PMDoors open. Potluck goes out, drinks come out, and the crowd bingo cards start moving around the room.
All nightCrowd bingo. The highlight of last year’s party, now at every party. More on it below.
8:00 PM sharpThe raffle. Every ticket you have earned goes in. You have to be in the room to win.
After the raffleThe games. One epic wheel game and one epic hand-building game, with the whole room watching.
10:00 PMLights up. Everybody helps reset the studio before heading home.
No pottery that night
No classes, no open studio and no personal projects. The entire space is reserved for the party and the games, so nobody has to work around a wheel somebody is using for real. Saturday open studio runs that morning as normal. The party is the whole studio from 6 PM.
What to wear
Come as you are
No costume, no color, no theme to dress for. Wear something you can get a little clay on, because somebody is going to talk you into a game.
What to bring
A real dish, your own drinks, and your favorite person
A proper potluck
Not a grab-a-bag-of-chips-on-the-way potluck. Bring a dish or dessert you love making, make enough to share, and bring whatever serving utensils it needs. Homemade dishes earn 5 raffle tickets each, so ambitious cooks are welcome to bring two.
We provide disposable plates, bowls, cups, napkins and utensils, plus plenty of ice water. All other food and drinks come from the community, which is half the fun: trying what everybody brought, swapping recipes, and using food as one more excuse to sit down with someone new.
Bring your own drinks
Beer, wine, cocktails, soda, mocktails, whatever you like. Anyone drinking alcohol is 21 or older and keeps themselves in check. Have fun and loosen up, but do not get drunk: there are still people, pottery, tools and equipment everywhere. If you are tipsy at all, take a ride home.
Your plus-one
Every member can bring one guest, at most. Partner, best friend, sibling, roommate, whoever you most want beside you. Your guest needs their own $3 ticket and signs the studio waiver before they come.
Guests are 18 or older, unless they are already a minor member coming with their parent. Guests eat, play the games, join the bingo and earn raffle tickets, which go in under your name. Raffle prizes are for members.
The games
One epic wheel game, one epic hand-building game
Built so a first-timer and a ten-year thrower have the same chance of winning. Playing is encouraged and never required. Plenty of people spend the whole time cheering, and the cheering decides most of the winners.
On the wheel side
Beach Ball Bracket
Head-to-head duels on the wheel with the bracket up on the big screen. Before every duel we toss a beach ball into the crowd, and whatever challenge lands under the catcher’s thumb is what both potters have to make in 90 seconds. The crowd picks every winner, all the way to the champion.
Eight potters on a normal night, sixteen on a big one, drawn into the bracket from a sun hat.
Every duel starts on clay an instructor already centered, so nobody loses on centering.
Challenges include tallest, widest, best collapse, a sandcastle, a jellyfish, eyes closed, and one finger per hand.
The champion gets 5 raffle tickets, the runner-up 3, and everyone who throws 1.
At the tables
Meltdown
Teams take turns stacking balls of clay into the tallest ice cream tower they can build in five minutes, then the whole room counts down a ten-second melt test. If a tower is still standing, we measure it. If it fell, everyone heard it go.
Teams of four or five at the long tables, a bat as the cone, a pile of clay to roll into scoops.
Scoops have to be round. One player touches the tower at a time, taking turns.
At the buzzer it is hands off, and the crowd counts down ten seconds out loud.
Everyone on the winning team gets 3 raffle tickets. Everyone who plays gets 1.
Got a game idea
Tell us. Some of the best ideas we have run started with a member saying “you know what would be funny.” Tell any instructor, or text our events line.
Crowd bingo
The game that gets everybody talking
Every square on the card is somebody in the room you have to find. You end up talking to people you have walked past for months, and laughing at what you have in common. It was the highlight of last year’s party, so now it runs at every one.
12raffle tickets for a completed blackout card
1raffle ticket for every completed row or column
0for diagonals, which do not count
The raffle
At 8 PM sharp, every ticket goes in
The summer raffle is our biggest of the year, double the giveaways of the St. Paddy’s and Halloween parties. There is no limit to how many tickets you can earn or how many prizes one person can win. You have to be in the room when your name is drawn.
The prizes
What is in the drum
Five free months of Yellow Level membership, each one yours to give to someone who has never been a member. Worth $170 each, awarded separately.
One bag of every clay we stock, 25 lb each, awarded separately.
One Clay Hole crewneck sweatshirt.
One Clay Hole zip-up hoodie.
Two gray Clay Hole T-shirts, awarded separately.
More prizes on the way. The rest of the summer list is being picked now and goes up here as each one is confirmed.
The thank-you
Already left us a review
If you have ever left The Clay Hole a Google or Yelp review, show it to us at the party and we will hand you 5 extra raffle tickets. Guests included.
This is a thank-you to the people who already took the time, not a trade for a new review. If you have written one before, it is on your phone right now. If you would like to see where ours live, here is our Google review page.
Earning tickets before the party
Starting Saturday, May 29, three weeks out, tickets start piling up. Bring every one of them to the party.
Make an offering to Icarus
1 ticket per offering. One offering for every new piece you put on the glazeware drop-off table. Write an anonymous secret, say something kind about somebody, or admit you are awesome, and put it in Icarus’s basket.
Come to a class
1 ticket for every Monday morning or Monday through Thursday evening class you attend. Teaching or working a class does not count.
Come to open studio
2 tickets for every Friday night, Saturday morning or Sunday morning open studio.
Upgrade your membership
5 tickets for moving up to any higher Level, before or during the party.
Post about us
1 ticket per platform, per day, for a post, reel, TikTok or story that tags @theclayhole. Posts stay up. Stories just run their normal course.
Get caught being awesome
Our staff hand out surprise tickets for kind, helpful, creative or community-minded moments.
Earning tickets at the party
Show up
1 ticket for every member and every plus-one. 5 more for you if your guest signs up for a membership during the party.
Bring a homemade dish
5 tickets per homemade dish or dessert. Store-bought food earns 1 ticket total, however much of it you bring.
Play the games
Tickets for the winners and for everyone who plays. The amounts are listed with each game above.
Finish crowd bingo
12 tickets for a blackout card, or 1 for every completed row or column.
Be ready for anything
Surprise tickets all night for quick challenges, spontaneous moments and whatever else deserves a reward.
Show us your review
5 tickets if you have already left The Clay Hole a Google or Yelp review. Guests included. Pull it up on your phone and show us at the party.
The raffle rules
The drawing starts at 8 PM sharp and winners must be present. Raffle prizes go to current and paused members, and to Clay Hole employees. A plus-one’s tickets go in under the member who brought them. Employees earn tickets the same ways members do, except for working a class, and any random employee tickets come from the owner. Game prizes are separate from the raffle. Prize models, colors and sizes may vary, and a comparable substitute may be used if something is unavailable.
Questions
Before you ask
Do I need a ticket?
Yes. Every person at the party needs a $3 ticket, members and guests alike. Buy them on our website, up to two per member.
Who can come?
Current and paused members of The Clay Hole, each with up to one guest. Guests are 18 or older, unless they are a minor member coming with their parent.
Can I get a refund?
Tickets are not refundable. If you cannot make it, give your ticket to another member and text our events line with their name.
Does the party use one of my classes?
No. It is a party, not a session.
Can I work on my own pottery that night?
No. There are no classes, no open studio and no personal projects that night. The whole studio is reserved for the party and the games.
What should I bring?
A homemade dish or dessert to share, with its serving utensils, your own drinks, and every raffle ticket you earned in the three weeks before.
Do I have to play the games?
No. Playing is encouraged, never required. Watching is half the fun, and the crowd decides most of the winners.
Can my guest win the raffle?
Your guest can earn tickets all night, and they go in under your name. Raffle prizes are for members.
Does my guest sign a waiver?
Yes. Every guest signs the studio waiver before they come.
What time is the raffle?
8 PM sharp. You have to be in the room when your name is drawn.
Is there cleanup?
Yes. Everybody helps reset the studio before leaving at 10. With a full room it takes a few minutes.
Saturday, June 19, 6 to 10 PM
The big one sells out first
Tickets are first come, first served, and this is the party everybody wants in on. Grab yours and your plus-one’s today.
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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.
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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.
