Sign up for your Clay Hole membership
10,000 square feet. 29 wheels. 650+ glazes. Four instructors in every class. And a few hundred people who walked in exactly as nervous as you are right now. They’re doing great, by the way.
$50 your first month then $145–$275/mo depending on your level
This month’s new member deal
That’s $95 off with code NEWMEMBER50, first-timers only. Start this month or next. Your call.
Sign up here
Pick your level, give us your cell number, done. You’re one of us now. Not sure which level yet? Keep scrolling. The full breakdown, the honest monthly math, even a little quiz… it’s all down there waiting for you.
Start this month or next. Join now either way.
Joining now is what locks in this month’s discount. Right after you sign up, we text you and figure out your start month together. That’s the whole system. Nothing to overthink.
One thing worth knowing: memberships run on calendar months, not from the day you start. Start on the 20th and that month still ends on the 30th. Sounds like a raw deal, right? It’s not. Your classes never expire while you’re a member. Every class you pay for stays yours until you come use it. So start whenever you want.
So what will you actually make?
Anything clay can be, which is basically anything. Mugs you’ll drink from every single morning. Giant ramen bowls. Planters, vases, platters, casserole dishes. Jewelry. Ornaments. Wedding gifts people actually keep. Sculptures of deeply questionable taste (encouraged, obviously). The occasional gnome army.
All made by regular members. Most of them walked in knowing nothing at all. See the member Show & Tell gallery →
People come for the pottery. That’s rarely what keeps them.
Most of us signed up to learn the wheel. Or to make mugs. Or because some pottery video grabbed us at 11:47 on a Tuesday night. All great reasons. And the pottery delivers, believe us… you’ll get better at this than you think.
But ask anyone who’s been here a year what they’d actually miss, and somehow it’s never the clay. It’s the table. Hands busy. Phone face down. The same faces every week, asking where you were the night you skipped.
Everything below is here so you can decide with your eyes wide open. What this place is. What it really costs. What happens if you hate it. And exactly what happens the second you join us.
Your first month is $50$145
That’s $95 off, and it comes off whichever level you pick, not just the cheap one. Go Purple and your first month is $105. We know. We double-checked the math too.
Enter it at checkout, not on this page.
left to claim it this month.
Takes you back up to the four levels at the top of this page.
Available to first-time members only, for a limited number of new members each month. Must start this month or next. Available on all membership levels. Only one new member discount can be used per account. Code must be applied at time of sign-up. $50 shown is Green level; the same $95 discount applies to whichever level you choose.
You’re not renting a wheel. You’re getting the keys to all of this.
Most community studios are one room, one instructor, and a shelf of glazes shared by forty strangers. That’s what $145 a month usually buys. We’re a little different here.
Here it buys you a 10,000 square foot studio. Four instructors on the floor in every single class. Your own private shelf with your own name on it. And more glaze than most college ceramics departments will ever own. Dan poured over a million dollars into this place, then priced it for actual humans. Not because we’re humble. Because we’d rather have it full of you.
“Am I going to be the worst one there?”
Almost certainly not. But let’s get specific. Tap whichever one is actually you.
Then congratulations. You’re the most normal person in the building. Most of us walked in knowing nothing. Not a technique. Not a tool. Not one single word of the vocabulary.
You don’t need a plan, and you don’t need talent. You need to walk through the door once. Our four instructors take it from there.
And if you want to make something beautiful on day one without ever touching a wheel, that’s exactly what our 150+ slab molds are for. People do it every week and act like they didn’t.
Then you’ve held clay, and you already know you liked it. That’s more than most of us showed up with.
The difference here? You’re not doing a two-hour activity and going home with wet hands and nothing to show. You’re starting real pieces. Drying them, glazing them, firing them, and taking home things you’ll actually use.
That takes weeks. Which is the entire reason we do memberships instead of one-off paint-a-pot nights.
Good. You get to skip the awkward part. Sit down at any of our 29 wheels, tell an instructor where you got stuck last time, and go.
Fair warning about the glazes, though. If you’ve only ever worked with a handful, there are 650 of them here, most already fired onto test tiles so you can see what you’re choosing instead of praying at a bottle.
Bring whatever half-finished ambition you’ve been carrying around. There’s room for it here.
Then brace yourself, because this studio is going to quietly ruin every other studio for you. Sorry in advance.
Four kilns, including one big enough to fire a four-foot piece. Diamond Core carving and trimming tools. A commercial wall-mounted extruder. Strong Arm centerers. Monthly advanced wheel sessions with Dan himself.
You already did the hard part. You spent the years. Come use equipment that finally keeps up with you.
You’re in very good company, and we mean that literally. Most of us walked in nervous. Dan included. Ask him about it sometime, or don’t, because talking is not required here.
You can sit and make things next to people without a single icebreaker. Nobody will make you talk. And not one person will think a thing of it if you take a few weeks to warm up. Most of us did.
There are soft couches all over the studio for when you need a minute away from the noise. And there’s Mud, the studio dog, whose entire job is people who need exactly that.
Almost everyone starts alone. That’s not the exception here. That’s the pattern. It’s probably the whole reason this place exists.
Real friendship takes hours of side-by-side time. A membership hands you up to 14 of them every month, at the same table, with the same people.
You won’t be coming alone for long. Believe us. Ask anyone who’s been here three months.
“I don’t have time for a weekly thing.”
We hear this one more than all the others combined. And we get it. So here’s the math, with love.
The hours already exist
Most of us are somewhere north of two hours a day on our phones. That’s about 60 hours a month, give or take, and none of us can account for where they went. Pottery is asking for 14 of them.
And there are no assigned nights
Come Monday morning one week, Thursday evening the next. Twice in one week, then not at all. Miss a whole month while life is on fire? Your classes are still sitting here waiting for you. They never expire.
You probably don’t have a time problem. You have a priority problem. Same as the rest of us, honestly. That’s exactly why we built a place where the better priority is also the easier one.
Three rules. That’s the whole system.
No curriculum.
Every class is open studio. You make whatever you want, every single time. Wheel, hand-building, sculpting, slab molds, glazing… switch between them mid-class if the mood strikes. No assigned projects. No rubric. Nobody grading your bowl.
No assigned night.
Your level comes with 4 to 8 classes a month and zero rules about when you use them. Binge them all in one glorious week or spread them out like a responsible adult. Both are correct. Four instructors are on the floor either way, two on wheels, two on hand-building.
Nothing expires.
Miss a week? Miss three? Your unused classes just sit there, waiting, for as long as you’re a member. Travel, illness, a month where life fell completely apart… they don’t burn. Use them next month. Use them next year. They’re yours.
Open studio classes
Four instructors on the floorOpen studio times
No instructors · still counts as a classCome do your own thing and be around people while you do it. Everyone helps tidy up after. Five minutes. All of us, together. Yes, even Dan.
Open seven days a week, holidays excluded. One heads-up for new members: your very first visit needs to be a regular class, not an open studio time, so we can get you your tour and your shelf.
Three ways to make something here. You never have to pick one.
About 80% of us walked in wanting the wheel. And the wheel really is incredible. But somehow, most of us ended up falling for the side of the studio nobody thinks to ask about.
The pottery wheel
Hard at first. Then quietly, wonderfully addictive. It takes two or three months to get decent, and every hour of it does something to your brain that no app has ever managed. We have 29 wheels. You will never stand around waiting for one.
Hand-building & sculpting
Big shared tables, thousands of tools, and no limit except what you can picture. Your hands stay busy while the conversation wanders wherever it wants. This is where most of the work in our studio actually gets made. And where most of us accidentally found our people.
Slab molds
Press clay into one of our 150+ molds and leave your very first class with a genuinely beautiful bowl, platter, or casserole dish. You’ll look like you’ve been doing this for years. Your secret is extremely safe with us.
Switch between all three in a single class if you feel like it. Nobody here is going to stop you. Some of us will probably cheer.
Four levels. Almost the same price per class. Wildly different studio.
Here’s the part that surprises people. It costs roughly the same per class at every level. Moving up doesn’t buy you cheaper classes. It buys you more studio. A lot more.
Tap a level above to compare it below.
| Green | Yellow | Purple | Black | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Every month | $145Green | $170Yellow | $200Purple | $275Black |
| Classes per month | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| Cost per class | $36.25 | $34.00 | $33.33 | $34.38 |
| Your private shelf | 24 × 12 × 8 | 24 × 12 × 12 | 36 × 16 × 14 | 48 × 16 × 16 |
| Tools | Bring your own | $150,000 of studio tools | Thousands more, incl. bladed | Elite tools nobody else touches |
| Glazes | Basic green dot | + dozens of yellow dot | + hundreds of purple dot | + black dot: our rarest & priciest |
| Slab molds | A few small | Small + medium | Through XL and XXL | Every size, incl. Giant |
| Off every bag of clay | — | $2 | $4 | $6 |
| Wheels | 25 in the main area | 25 in the main area | + the kick wheel | + high-power Skutts |
| Specialty equipment | — | Slab rollers, stamps, rollers | Hand extruder, clay openers, ribs | Wall extruder, Strong Arm, Diamond Core |
| Workshops & events | — | — | First dibs & discounts | First dibs & bigger discounts |
| Classes never expire | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Your private shelf, from above
Footprints drawn to scale. Tap any of them to compare.
Footprints drawn to one shared scale. Green and Yellow share a footprint, Yellow is simply the taller shelf. Purple gives you 2× the surface of Green, Black 2.7×. By volume, Purple holds 3.5× and Black over 5×.
What unlocks in the glaze room
The honest numbers, side by side. Each dot is 5%.
Purple opens roughly 550 glazes. Green opens about 33.
Tools, molds, underglazes and clay discounts scale the same way. And that last stretch is not just more glaze… the black dot shelf holds the rarest, priciest glazes in the building.
Green: the budget door
An honest way in. You bring your own tools, you use our basic glazes, and you get the littlest shelf. It works. Just know you’re seeing a fraction of the studio you came here for. Most people last about a month before upgrading… we’ve stopped being surprised.
Yellow: where we’d tell a friend to start
No tool shopping before your first class. Real glaze access instead of just the basics. A taller shelf. And $150,000 worth of studio tools, unlocked. For $25 more than Green, this is where the place starts feeling like the place.
Purple: where most of us ended up
Most members land here within their first year, and it’s the lowest cost per class of any level at $33.33. Hundreds more glazes. Thousands more tools, including the bladed ones. A shelf three times the size of Green’s, every mold in the building, the kick wheel, the hand extruder, and first dibs on workshops and game nights. There’s a reason the badge says most loved.
Black: for the obsessed
Eight classes a month and nearly everything in this million-dollar studio, including gear nobody else touches. The commercial wall extruder. Strong Arm centerers. Diamond Core carving and trimming tools. The high-power Skutt wheels. The biggest shelf we make. And that final 15% of glazes? The rarest, priciest ones we stock. Spots are limited, and we mean actually limited, not marketing limited.
You can change levels later. Upgrade any time, downgrade next month.
Not sure which level? Take the 60-second quiz Five questions. No email, no wrong answers. Be honest with us and we’ll tell you where you’d be happiest. Tap to open or close.
What’s actually pulling you toward this?
When you walk into a studio, how often do you want to hear the word “no”?
How much do you want this to be a people thing?
Tools and workspace. What sounds like you?
Be honest about the money.
Purple Level
$200/month · 6 classes
Not locked in. You can upgrade any time and downgrade the following month.
Clay and firings aren’t included. Here’s the honest math.
Some studios bake clay and firing into everyone’s price. Sounds nice, until you realize you’re subsidizing the guy who makes nine casserole dishes a month. Here, you pay for what you use. Bisque firings are free. Glaze firings run a nickel per cubic inch ($4.80 minimum). Clay starts at $28 a bag, and it gets cheaper as your level goes up.
For comparison, a one-night pottery class around here runs $45 to $75 for about two hours, and you go home with nothing finished. Six Purple classes is 21 hours in a studio with 29 wheels and 650 glazes. And you keep everything you make. Anyway. We think it’s a pretty good deal.
Sliders are estimates using an average-size piece. Small pieces fire for the $4.80 minimum, and several tiny ones can share a single kiln cookie. Full cost breakdown here →
Two of you? Don’t both pay full price.
Two full memberships is real money. There are two better ways to do this, and somehow most couples don’t find out until after they’ve already signed up. So we’re telling you now.
Shared Membership
One membership, two humans. Split the classes however you two like. Same price as a solo membership. Couples only, and yes, we’ll believe you.
Shared Shelf Pass
You each get your own full membership, you share one shelf, and you both save 20%. Forever. Any two people… couples, friends, siblings, roommates, you and your ride-or-die from third grade.
There’s no contract. There never was.
The only thing between you and finding out whether you love this is usually the fear of getting stuck. So hear us. You can’t get stuck here.
No contract, ever
Month to month, always. Nothing to sign that traps you. We loathe that stuff as much as you do.
Cancel yourself in two clicks
In the member portal, by the 24th. No phone call. No retention pitch. No awkward conversation with anybody, ever.
Or pause instead
Keep your shelf, your unused classes, your rewards, and your spot. Small monthly fee. Most of us who’ve had to step away picked this one, and it’s why we came back.
Change levels whenever
Upgrade mid-month any time you want. Downgrade starting the following month.
Classes never expire
As long as you’re a member, they wait. There’s no limit to how many you can stack up.
Your first month is $95 off
So finding out whether this is your thing costs about as much as a dinner out. A decent one, but still.
How the billing month actually works
Memberships run on calendar months, not from your start date. The 24th is the only date you ever need to remember.
And the part we’d rather say out loud than bury in fine print: there are no refunds. None. Not for missed deadlines, not for changed minds, not for anything. Which is exactly why we put an actual calendar on this page instead of hoping you’d miss the date. Cancel or pause by the 24th and you’ll never be charged again. And you still get the rest of that month’s classes… you paid for them, they’re yours.
Start this month or next. Your call, and you can tell us which when we text you.
4.9 stars from 139+ Google reviews
“This is the third pottery studio I’ve worked at. It can be intimidating to learn all the details in pottery but Dan has created so many helps.”
Google review“What a fabulous little gem The Clay Hole has turned out to be. I have never seen a studio as well stocked as this one. Plenty of space and wheels for you and your friends. Everyone is so kind.”
Google review“This place blew me away when I walked in the door. Big, beautiful, lots of options and time slots to create. The instructors are kind and the owner has been fun to meet.”
Google review“The best pottery studio around! Dan has built an amazing studio with an even more amazing community. It is the cleanest studio with so much accountability and dedication to keeping the space beautiful.”
Google review“A fantastic local pottery studio that’s both incredibly well equipped and genuinely welcoming. The space is thoughtfully set up with all the tools, materials, and equipment a potter could want.”
Google review“I have been practicing pottery and ceramic art for the past 6 years… Beyond its convenience, it is a bright and airy place to create.”
Google reviewThe reason this works isn’t really the pottery.
Researchers have actually measured this. It takes about 50 hours with someone to turn an acquaintance into a casual friend. About 90 hours to make a real one. And 200+ hours to make the kind you can text at midnight. Who knew friendship came with math.
Nobody ever tells you where those hours are supposed to come from after 25. A membership hands you up to 14 of them every month. Same table. Same people. Hands busy, guards down, conversation going sideways in the best possible way.
We’re not a pottery studio with a community. We’re a community with a really, really nice pottery studio.
University of Kansas research. At six classes a month, you cross 200 hours inside your first year.
Hi. I’m Dan. I’d love it if you came and gave this place a go.
You might already know me. Around three million people follow me making pottery online, which is still a ridiculous thing to type out loud. I’ve never gone looking for a following. I just do my thing and awesome humans tend to find me.
But this isn’t really about me. I’m here plenty… popping into classes, throwing on my own wheel in the corner, teaching the advanced stuff, learning your name and then forgetting it at least once and feeling terrible about it. It’s been more fun than I know how to explain.
I built The Clay Hole as my last big hurrah. Not to get bigger online. Not for more kudos. I built it to turn my life back into a world full of real people, at real tables, who become real friends. And somewhere along the way it quietly stopped being my studio. Twenty-plus employees. Hundreds of members. It’s ours now. Come be part of it.
Here’s exactly what happens.
No mystery, no waiting around wondering if it went through.
You check out
Scroll up, pick your level, add your cell number, and drop your discount code in at checkout. Ninety seconds, start to finish. Maybe two minutes if you overthink it. You won’t be the first.
We text you
At the number you gave us, usually fast. We confirm your start month, sort out your first class, and answer whatever’s still rattling around in your head. All of it fair game.
You sign the waiver
Two minutes, online, required before your first class. Sign it here →
You watch three short videos
Wheel, slab roller, glazing. Required, quick, and they’ll save you so much guessing on day one. We send the links right to your phone.
Day one
Studio tour. Your own shelf, with your name on it. Pick your clay, meet a few people, start making something. You’ll walk out with a piece in progress and probably three new opinions about glaze.
Still deciding between this month and next?
Join now either way. That’s what locks in this month’s discount. Before the 15th, we assume you’re starting now. After the 15th, we assume next month. The 25th or later, it’s always next month. Whichever it is, just tell us when we text you. And if you’re starting after the 15th, make that first class a Monday or Thursday so we can hand you the tour and your shelf.
The questions people actually ask.
Do I need any experience?
None. Zero. Most of us arrived knowing nothing about clay. Beginners aren’t just welcome here, they’re the norm. And with four instructors in every class plus 150+ slab molds, you can make something beautiful on day one without ever touching a wheel.
Can I just try one class first?
We don’t do drop-ins, date nights, or one-off classes. That’s deliberate, not greedy. Pottery takes weeks to get one piece from wet clay to finished and fired. And community doesn’t happen in one visit… it happens because the same people keep showing up.
So instead, we make your first month cheap enough to be the trial. With this month’s code, finding out costs you fifty bucks. And you can cancel yourself by the 24th if it turns out we’re not your people.
Can I really cancel any time?
Yes. No contract, ever. You cancel yourself in the member portal by the 24th of any month, you’re never charged again, and you still get the rest of that month’s classes. One catch: it has to be you, in the portal. A text or an email to us doesn’t count, and we can’t do it for you.
Only stepping away for a bit? Pause instead. You keep your shelf, your unused classes, your rewards, and your spot. It’s what most of us do when life gets loud.
What if I sign up now but can’t start until next month?
Completely fine, and really common. Sign up now to lock in this month’s discount, then just tell us you’re starting next month when we text you. Nothing gets wasted. And if you sign up on the 25th or later, next month is your start month automatically anyway.
Will I actually finish anything in my first month?
Maybe. Maybe not. We won’t pretend otherwise. Pottery is a process… pieces dry for days or weeks, then get bisque fired, then glazed, then fired again. Kilns run when there’s enough work to fill them, usually weekly.
Plan on about two months before finished work comes out the other end. Want to speed that up? Tell an instructor on day one and they’ll point you at pieces that move fast.
What do I bring, and what should I wear?
Bring nothing on your first day. Everything you need is already here, and we’ll get you your clay when you arrive.
Wear something you truly don’t mind getting clay on. And trim those fingernails… long nails and wet clay are not friends. An apron helps. A towel helps more. Clay washes out of most things, but believe us, it will find you.
How old do you have to be?
Members must be 18 or older. Teenagers aged 14 to 17 may attend alongside a parent or guardian who is also a member.
What’s the vibe actually like?
We’ll be straight with you. Evening classes come with some cursing, plenty of irreverent joking, and people sometimes bring drinks to share. If that’s your scene, you’ll fit right in. If you’re on the more conservative side, come anyway… nobody will think twice about it.
And if a freewheeling room just isn’t your thing, the Monday daytime class is the quiet one. No alcohol, no cursing. Dan’s mom is there, and we show her some respect. LGBTQ+ friendly across the board, every class, no asterisks. The one thing we truly don’t tolerate is jerks.
Are there discounts for teachers, military, students, seniors, or first responders?
There are. Our Heroes Discount Program covers teachers, military, students, seniors, healthcare workers, first responders, and nonprofit folks… because some people have more than earned a break. It’s separate from the new member deal above. See if you qualify →
Want the whole thing in plain English? We wrote a page just for that: how membership works, start to finish →
Every other question lives on our FAQs page → Or just text us: 385-241-5528
The membership fine print
All of it, one click away, in plain language. Nothing hiding anywhere. By signing up you’re agreeing to these terms and confirming you understand the information on our FAQs page.
Membership, billing & cancellation terms
- You can upgrade your membership mid-month or the following month, and downgrade starting the following month. You may change membership levels up to twice each year.
- Memberships renew automatically on the 25th. You can cancel or pause any time by the 24th to avoid being charged for the next month. There are no contracts, just deadlines to cancel.
- There are no refunds on memberships for any reason at any time, including for missed cancellation deadlines.
- Memberships are based on calendar months, not on your start date. If you choose to start mid-month, that month terminates at the end of that same calendar month, and you will be charged on the 25th for the following month even if you started late. Your classes never expire while you remain a member, so unused classes carry forward.
- Memberships are non-transferable. Every new member must sign up under their own name, email, and phone number. To give membership as a gift, please purchase a gift certificate instead. We cannot make exceptions to this rule.
- We reserve the right to cancel any membership at any time should our studio rules not be kept or problems arise. Should your membership be canceled for conduct or rule breaking, there are no refunds and all items and materials on your shelf will be forfeit.
- All members are required to sign the online waiver and membership agreement before participating at The Clay Hole. All members must also initial and sign the glaze checklist and agreement before accessing any glazes.
- Members must be 18 or older. Teens aged 14 to 17 may attend alongside a parent or guardian who is also a member.
New member offers & multi-month deals
- New member offers are available to first-time members only, for a limited number of new members each month, and must be applied at time of sign-up. Only one new member discount can be used per account.
- Our first month deals are offered in good faith so you can give The Clay Hole an honest try. Since we lose money on that first month, memberships canceled before attending a class will be automatically reactivated. You can cancel again after you have attended at least one class. This keeps the discount available for people genuinely exploring our community as a longer-term option.
- If you sign up for any multi-month deal, such as a BOGO offer, and then cancel during the first month, you will not receive the promotional extras or discounts for future months, and your membership will be canceled at the end of that first month. Hold off canceling if you want the benefit of the offer.
Costs not included in membership
- Clay is available starting at $28 for a 25 lb bag, before membership discounts of $2, $4, or $6 per bag by level.
- Bisque firings are free. Glaze firings are priced at $0.05 per cubic inch, with a $4.80 minimum. Multiple small pieces can be fired together provided they fit on a 6" × 6" kiln cookie.
- Absolutely no outside clay may be brought into The Clay Hole. Any member who brings in outside clay is financially liable for any resulting kiln, kiln shelf, or pottery damage.
Attendance & first-class rules
- If you start classes between the 1st and the 15th of the month, you may start any day you like, provided you have replied to let us know when you’re coming. The one exception: if you sign up less than three hours before class begins, you’ll need to wait until the next class day so we can send your info and set up your account.
- If you start classes on the 16th of the month or later, your very first class must be a Monday or Thursday so that you can get the tour, your shelf assignment, and your setup. After your first class, come to whichever classes or open studio times you like. If you come on another day, we’ll need you to return on the proper day to get situated.
- No new member may attend an open studio time without first attending a regular class and completing setup.
- Any member who attends more classes than their membership level allows will be charged the difference for the current month and upgraded to a level that includes more days the following month. Overage charges are not refunded.
- All members participating in open studio times must help clean the studio afterward, a five to ten minute commitment.
A year from now, you’ll be a year older either way.
One version of you spent that year scrolling. The other one has a shelf full of things that didn’t exist until their hands made them… and a table of people who save them a seat.
We’re saving you one right now.
Start this month or next. Your call. First month $95 off with code NEWMEMBER50.
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