The Clay Hole home page
Pick your Level on the next page. Takes about two minutes.
Announcements, new member deals, and more. All the lists live on one page.
Loading the latest…
Pick your Level on the next page. Takes about two minutes.
Announcements, new member deals, and more. All the lists live on one page.
Loading the latest…
Follow along
Team Events at The Clay Hole · Draper, Utah
Three hours. Real clay, real wheels, real instructors — and the one team-building side effect nobody sells on purpose: your people stop performing. Bring 10 or bring 48 to the most absurdly over-equipped pottery studio in the country.
Up to 48 people · 3 hours · From $995 · 10 days' notice is plenty
The escape room where two people did everything and everyone else stood near a wall. The trust-fall thing somebody is still bringing up. The mandatory-fun happy hour where every single person sat with the exact people they already sit with all day.
Meanwhile, the actual situation:
That's not a morale problem you can fix with a gift card. That's a format problem. Nothing about the way your team spends time together was ever designed to make them like each other.
They start performing.
They get careful. They get quiet. They glance sideways at their neighbor's bowl. And the perfectionist on your team — you know exactly who — decides within ninety seconds that they're bad at this, and spends the next two hours with their arms folded saying they're "just watching."
Now take the souvenir off the table.
Something strange happens, and it happens to the whole room at once. Everybody relaxes. There's nothing to be good at. Nothing to compare. No finished object anyone is going to judge. There's just wet clay, three hours, and a room full of coworkers laughing at how spectacularly bad they all are at this.
That's when your CFO ends up elbow-deep in mud telling a story nobody at that company has ever heard. That's the thing you actually came for. Not the mug.
Every studio that promises your team a finished piece in one night is cutting corners to get there. They trim it for you while you're not looking. They attach the handle. They dunk it in the one glaze that can't fail, and hand you something five weeks later that you didn't really make.
We're not a party venue that keeps some clay around. We're a 10,000-square-foot working studio with 29 wheels, four kilns, 650 glazes, and hundreds of members who come every week. We're not going to fake the process to sell you a souvenir.
So we give you the whole process: the messy, hilarious, hands-in-it, water-everywhere part. Three hours of it. And then you go home clean.
Nobody books a thing they can't picture. So here's the whole thing.
Food comes out if you brought it. Nobody's on the clock yet.
Everybody gathers. One of our instructors makes it look effortless. It is not effortless. This is important for morale and we know exactly what we're doing.
Wheels, hand-building tables, slab molds, sculpting, carving — whatever your group picked. Instructors circulating the whole time, not standing at the front.
Somebody's piece collapses in a way that is genuinely spectacular. The room loses it. This is the single best thing that happens all night.
People stop caring about the outcome. Conversations get real. Phones have been in bags for an hour and nobody's noticed.
Make the ridiculous thing. Everyone makes the ridiculous thing.
Wipe your table, rinse your tools, sponge down your wheel. It takes about ten minutes with everyone pitching in, and it's built into your three hours. Then wash up — sinks are right there — and grab a group photo if you want one.
Clean, tired, and weirdly happy about it.
Pick one. Or don't — text us and we'll tell you which fits your group.
The iconic one. A group demo, then everyone gets a wheel and two instructors work the room. It is much harder than it looks, and that is the entire charm.
Best for: teams that want the thing they've seen in movies · competitive groups · anybody who's ever said "I've always wanted to try that."
Slab molds, sculpting, coil building, carving, stamping. Long tables, everyone facing each other, everyone talking. With 248 slab molds, a person who's never touched clay makes something genuinely beautiful on day one.
Best for: bigger groups · mixed ability and mobility · introverts (hands busy, eye contact optional — a real gift) · conversation.
Split your group, rotate them through, or let people self-select. The entire studio, running at once. Available on weekday daytime slots and every Saturday and Sunday slot.
Best for: 25+ people · teams with a wide spread of "I'm secretly artistic" to "I am absolutely not."
Dan Pearce built The Clay Hole after years in studios that made him work around their limitations. Then a few million people on the internet started watching him do it. Your team gets the room he built.
| The Clay Hole | The typical "event" studio | |
|---|---|---|
| The space | 10,000 sq ft, purpose-built | A rented back room |
| Pottery wheels | 29 | 6–10, if any |
| Instructors | Two minimum, three on a full hand-building room | One person running the entire room |
| Clay per person | 8 lbs | A fist-sized lump |
| Max group | 48 hand-building / 22 wheel | 16–20 |
| Your "finished" piece | The real process — or join and actually finish it | Trimmed for you, glazed for you, pick it up in 5 weeks |
| Food | Bring it or cater it in | Usually not |
| Price for 25 people | $1,495$60 / person | $2,125–$3,875$85–155 / person |
Comparison pricing reflects published 2026 rates at corporate pottery programs in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.
Nobody's title helps them center a lump of clay. Your intern and your VP are equally bad at this, publicly, at the same time, in front of each other. You cannot schedule that kind of leveling into a meeting. You can only stumble into it.
Struggling together, in public, with low stakes and zero consequences, is one of the fastest routes to trust there is. It's why boot camps work. This version has snacks and nobody yells at you.
Three hours with both hands covered in wet clay is three hours nobody can check Slack. Not "shouldn't." Can't. Most of your team hasn't had that in years, and they will absolutely notice.
Nobody tells the story about the happy hour. Everybody tells the story about the time the whole sales team made terrible bowls and Marcus's exploded. That story gets told at your company for years.
Your team spends around 2,000 hours a year in the same building.
Most of them still don't know each other. Because meeting hours don't count. Screen-share hours don't count. Standing-in-line-at-the-same-lunch-place hours don't count. Only the other kind count — the ones where people are doing something together that has nothing to do with the work.
This is three of the other kind.
No "contact us for pricing." You have a budget and a boss. Here's your number.
| Your group | Your total | Per person |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 15 | $995 | $66 |
| 20 | $1,245 | $62 |
| 25 | $1,495 | $60 |
| 30 | $1,745 | $58 |
| 40 | $2,245 | $56 |
| 48 | $2,645 | $55 |
Fewer than 15? It's still $995. Same instructors, same clay, same three hours — the studio is yours either way. Most groups just bring more people once they do the math, because after fifteen, the next person costs fifty bucks.
For context: comparable corporate pottery workshops around the country run $85 to $155 per person, and most of them are a paint-and-sip with a wheel in the corner. We're at fifty-five to sixty-six.
| When | Format | Max people | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue–Thu daytime |
Wheel, hand-building, or both | 48 hand-building 22 wheel or both at once |
The flagship slot. Full run of the studio. |
| Monday 2:00–5:00 PM |
Wheel, hand-building, or both | 48 hand-building 22 wheel or both at once |
Slots in neatly between our Monday classes. Starts at 2:00 sharp. |
| Mon–Thu evening |
Hand-building | 28 | Runs alongside live member classes — you'll see the studio at full volume. |
| Saturday 2:00 to 5:00 PM or 6:00 to 9:00 PM |
Wheel, hand-building, or both | 48 hand-building 22 wheel or both at once |
The whole studio is yours. Pick the afternoon or the evening. |
| Sunday 2:00 to 5:00 PM or 6:00 to 9:00 PM |
Wheel, hand-building, or both | 48 hand-building 22 wheel or both at once |
The whole studio, either slot. Available for an additional $200. |
Why the weeknight slots are secretly the good ones: weeknight groups get something the daytime and weekend groups don't: the studio full of members doing their thing all around you. It's loud, it's alive, and it's the fastest way to understand what this place actually is.
Lead time: ten days is plenty. Three weeks is comfortable. Got handed an offsite with nine days' notice? Text us anyway — we put these together faster than places with real event calendars, and that's on purpose.
Neither is half of ours on day one. That's what the slab molds are for — 150+ of them, in every size, and they let a person who has never touched clay press out a genuinely beautiful bowl in twenty minutes. On the wheel side, the whole joke is that nobody's good at it. Being bad at it together is the product.
This is the most introvert-friendly team event we know of, and we'd say so even if it weren't ours. Your hands are busy, your eyes have somewhere to be, and eye contact is optional. Conversation happens sideways, which is the only way some people ever have it. Nobody performs, nobody presents, nobody stands in a circle and shares.
It goes faster than any three hours your team has spent together. Look at the timeline above — around the ninety-minute mark, people stop checking the clock entirely.
Nope. Unless somebody joins the studio that night, in which case their piece goes on their own shelf and they come back and finish it properly. Read the section up top for why we think that's the better event, not the lesser one.
Yes. Cater it, have it delivered, bring a cooler — whatever's easiest. Bring your own drinks too, or grab something here: we keep cold and hot drinks available for purchase in the studio.
Something they don't mind getting clay on. We don't supply aprons, so if anyone's particular about what they're wearing, tell them to bring one from home. Wet clay rinses out of most fabrics, but it does need a wash afterwards, and everybody wipes their hands on their legs at the wheel whether they mean to or not. Worth a line in your calendar invite.
Yes. Clay gets everywhere — that's half the fun of it — so about ten minutes before the end everyone wipes down their own table, rinses their tools and sponges off their wheel. It's built into your three hours, so it doesn't cost you anything at the end. It's also just how this building works: hundreds of members share this studio and every one of them cleans up after themselves. Your group gets the same room they'd want to walk into.
Yes — the hand-building side works standing or seated at tables and accommodates a wide range of mobility. Tell us what your group needs and we'll set the room up for it.
We've got you. We can invoice your company directly, take a PO number, and accept ACH, check, or card. Need a W-9? We'll send it the same day you ask. Need a certificate of insurance before your vendor team will approve us? Ask and we'll get it over.
Everyone signs one, same as any studio. We'll send you a single link to forward to your group so it's handled before anyone arrives and nobody's filling out paperwork on their phone in the lobby.
Half up front holds your date, and that half is non-refundable. The balance and your final headcount are due a week before. After that the number locks, because we buy the clay and staff the room around it. Need to move the date? One free reschedule with two weeks' notice.
48 on the hand-building side, 22 on wheels, and both at once on a weekday daytime slot or any Saturday or Sunday slot. Bigger than 48? Call us and we'll get creative.
Perfect. This is one of the few things that genuinely works for a once-a-year all-hands, because it doesn't require anyone to already know each other.
Copy this. Paste it. Go back to your actual job.
Proposing a team event at The Clay Hole in Draper — a 10,000 sq ft pottery studio. Three hours, hands-on, with instructors. Everyone works with real clay on pottery wheels or at hand-building tables.
Cost is $995 for up to 15 people, $50 per person after that. For our group of 25 that's $1,495, or about $60 per person. Comparable corporate workshops run $85–$155 per person, so this is well under market.
We can bring in food. The full studio is available Tuesday through Thursday daytime, Monday afternoon, and Saturday or Sunday from 2 to 5 PM or 6 to 9 PM, with select weeknights for smaller groups. Ten days' notice is enough to book.
Why this one: it's genuinely different from the escape-room / happy-hour rotation, it works for both outgoing and quiet people, and there is no way to be on a laptop for three hours.
If the group is an engineering, product or data team, we wrote a version of this page aimed squarely at them: an engineering team offsite in Utah.
Contact The Clay Hole at 385-441-6379 and ask for our Community Experience Director.
Numbers update automatically from the calculator above.
Every one of these events, at least one person gets the look. The one where they've stopped listening to the conversation because they're already thinking about what they'd make next time.
If that's somebody on your team, we make it easy. Anyone in your group who joins that night gets their piece put on their own shelf, comes back and finishes it in a real class, and takes home something they actually made start to finish. We hold a first-month discount just for event guests.
Nobody will be pressured, and nobody gets pitched from the front of the room. But it's there, and some of your people are going to want it.
Consider it the best possible outcome of a team event: somebody walked in for a work thing and walked out having found something that's theirs.
Text us. Tell us roughly how many people and roughly when. Our Community Experience Director will tell you what's open and exactly what it costs, usually within the hour.
No forms. No discovery call. No "let's find some time on the calendar to talk about finding some time on the calendar."
Community Experience Director
The Clay Hole · 12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, UT 84020
New member deal
30 of 30 discounted spots left this month
Tell us where to send it and this month’s deal lands in your inbox. If this month runs out, you get next month’s before it opens.
Almost done
Done
It should land in the next few minutes. One thing while you wait: we are members only and we do not run walk-in tours, so the virtual tour is the closest you can get to standing in one.
Test mode. Visitors are not seeing this.
One question
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?
That is how we work out where the demand actually is. The rest is so we know who to tell.
Got it
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.
Test mode. Visitors are not seeing this.
