Sign up for your Clay Hole membership
A 10,000 sq ft pottery studio, 29 wheels, 650+ glazes, four instructors in every class, and a few hundred people who were exactly as nervous as you are right now.
Starts at $145/month. Start this month or next — your call.
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Pick your level, add your cell number, and you’re in. Not sure which one yet? Everything you could want to know is just below — the levels, the real monthly cost, and a 60-second quiz.
Start this month or next. Join now either way.
Joining is what locks in this month’s new member discount. We’ll text you right after to sort out which month you’re starting — so there’s nothing to figure out before you decide.
One thing worth knowing: memberships run on calendar months, not from your start date. Start on the 20th and that month still ends on the 30th. That sounds like a raw deal until you remember your classes never expire while you’re a member — so nothing you paid for is ever lost. You just use them later.
People come for the pottery. That’s rarely what keeps them.
Most of our members signed up to learn the wheel, or to make mugs for their own kitchen, or because a video caught them on a slow evening. All good reasons, and the pottery genuinely delivers — you will get better at this than you expect.
But ask someone who’s been here a year what they’d actually miss, and most of them talk about the table rather than the clay. Hands busy, phone face down, the same faces every week.
Everything below is here so you can decide with your eyes open — what this place is, what it actually costs, what happens if you hate it, and exactly what happens the second you join.
Your first month is $50$145
That’s $95 off — and it comes off whichever level you choose, not just the cheapest one. Pick Purple and pay $105 for your first month.
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 glaze shared by forty people. That is what $145 a month usually buys.
Here it buys a 10,000 square foot studio, four instructors on the floor in every single class, your own private shelf with your name on it, and more glaze than most college ceramics departments own. Dan put more than a million dollars into this building and then priced it for actual humans — not because it’s small, but because he’d rather it be full.
“Am I going to be the worst one there?”
Almost certainly not. But let’s be specific about it — tap whichever one is actually you.
Then you’re the most normal person in the building. Most of our members walked in knowing nothing — not a technique, not a tool, not one word of the vocabulary.
You don’t need a plan or a shred of natural talent. You need to walk through the door one time, and four instructors take it from there.
And if you want to make something genuinely beautiful on day one without ever touching a wheel, that’s exactly what our 150+ slab molds are for. People do it every single week.
Then you’ve held clay and you already know you liked it. That’s more than most people arrive with.
The difference here is that you’re not doing a two-hour activity and going home empty-handed. You’re starting real pieces, drying them, glazing them, firing them, and eventually taking home things you’d actually keep and use.
That takes weeks, which is the entire reason we only do memberships instead of one-off 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: if you’ve only ever worked with a handful, there are 650 here. Most are already fired onto test tiles, so you can see what you’re actually choosing instead of guessing from a bottle.
Bring whatever half-finished ambition you’ve been carrying around. There’s room for it.
Then brace yourself, because this studio will quietly ruin every other studio for you.
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.
You’ve already done the hard part. Come use equipment that keeps up with you.
You’re in very good company, and we mean that literally. Most of us walked in nervous. Dan included.
You can sit and make things beside people without a single icebreaker. Nobody will make you talk, and not one person thinks anything of it if it takes you a few weeks to warm up.
There are soft couches all over the studio for when you need a minute away from the noise, and a studio dog named Mud whose entire specialty is people who need exactly that.
Almost everyone starts alone. That isn’t the exception here, it’s the pattern — and it’s the whole reason this place exists.
Real friendship takes hours of side-by-side time, and a membership hands you up to 14 of them every month, at the same table, with the same people.
You will not be coming alone for long. Ask anyone who’s been here three months.
Three rules. That’s the whole system.
No curriculum.
Every class is open studio. You make whatever you want, every single time you come. Wheel, hand-building, sculpting, slab molds, glazing — switch between them mid-class if you feel like it. 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 in one week or spread them out. Four instructors are on the floor in every class — two on the wheels, two on hand-building.
Nothing expires.
Miss a week? Miss three? Your unused classes sit there waiting for as long as you’re a member. Travel, illness, a month where life simply fell apart — they don’t burn. Use them next month or next year.
Open studio classes
Four instructors on the floorOpen studio times
No instructors · still counts as a classCome work on your own, be around people, and get caught up. Everyone helps tidy up afterward — five minutes, all of us together.
Open seven days a week, holidays excluded. New members: your very first visit needs to be a regular class rather than an open studio time, so we can get you set up.
Three ways to make something here. You never have to pick one.
About 80% of people walk in wanting the wheel, and the wheel really is incredible. But most of them end up falling for the side of the studio nobody thinks to ask about.
The pottery wheel
Hard at first, then quietly addictive. Two or three months to get genuinely decent, and every hour of it does something to your brain that no app has managed yet. We have 29 wheels, so you will not sit 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. This is where most of the work in this studio actually gets made — and where most people accidentally find their people.
Slab molds
Press clay into one of 150+ molds and leave your very first class with a genuinely beautiful bowl, platter or casserole dish. You will look like you have been doing this for years. We are not going to tell anyone.
Switch between all three in a single class if you feel like it. Nobody here is going to stop you.
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 a much bigger studio.
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 the last stretch is not just more glaze — the black dot shelf holds the rarest and most expensive glazes in the building.
Green — the budget door
An honest way in. You bring your own tools, you’re working with our basic glazes, and you get the smallest shelf. It works — just know you’re seeing a fraction of the studio you came here for. Most people move up after their first month.
Yellow — where we’d tell a friend to start
No tool shopping before your first class. Real glaze access instead of the basics. A taller shelf, and $150,000 worth of studio tools opens up. For $25 more than Green, this is the level where the place actually starts feeling like the place.
Purple — where most members end up
Most members land here within their first year, and it is the lowest cost per class of any level at $33.33. Hundreds more glazes, thousands more tools including 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.
Black — for the obsessed
Eight classes a month and nearly everything in this million-dollar studio, including gear nobody else gets to touch: the commercial wall extruder, Strong Arm centerers, Diamond Core carving and trimming tools, the high-power Skutt wheels, and the biggest shelf we make. The final 15% of glazes it unlocks are also the rarest and most expensive ones we stock. Limited spots.
You can change levels later — upgrade any time, downgrade next month.
Not sure which level? Take the 60-second quiz Five questions, no email required. Answer honestly and we’ll tell you where you’d be happiest. Tap to collapse.
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.
We don’t bake clay and firing into everyone’s rate, because then you’d be paying for somebody else’s habit. You pay for what you actually use. Bisque firings are free. Glaze firings run $0.05 per cubic inch with a $4.80 minimum. Clay starts at $28 for a 25 lb bag, and your discount grows with your level.
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.
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.
Two of you? Don’t both pay full price.
Two standard memberships is real money. There are two better ways to do this, and most couples don’t know they exist until after they’ve signed up.
Shared Membership
One membership, two humans, and you split the classes however you like. Same price as a solo membership. Couples only.
Shared Shelf Pass
You each get your own full membership, share one shelf, and save 20% on both. Any two people — couples, friends, siblings, roommates.
There’s no contract. There never was.
The thing standing between you and finding out whether you love this is usually the fear of being stuck. You can’t get stuck here.
No contract, ever
Month to month, always. Nothing to sign that locks you in.
Cancel yourself in two clicks
In the member portal, by the 24th. No phone call, no retention pitch, no awkward conversation with anybody.
Or pause instead
Keep your shelf, your unused classes, your rewards, and your spot in the studio. Small monthly fee. Most people who step away choose this.
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
Which means finding out whether this is your thing costs about the same as dinner.
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. Not for a missed cancellation deadline, not for changing your mind, not for any reason. That’s exactly why we put a calendar on this page instead of hoping you’d miss it. Cancel or pause by the 24th and you are never charged again — and you still get to use the rest of that month’s classes.
Start this month or next — your call, and you can tell us which when we text.
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’d text at midnight.
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 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.
Built by the potter your algorithm already knows.
Dan Pearce has more than 3 million followers across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and is one of the most-watched potters on the internet. Before pottery he wrote a blog read by millions. He has spent his entire life gathering people.
The part that matters for you: he’s actually in the building. Popping into classes, throwing in his corner of the studio, teaching advanced wheel sessions, learning your name. Parasocial is fine. This is better.
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 enter your discount code at checkout. About ninety seconds, start to finish.
We text you
At the number you gave us, usually quickly. We’ll confirm which month you’re starting, sort out your first class, and answer whatever’s still rattling around in your head.
You sign the waiver
Two minutes, online, required before your first class. Sign it here →
You watch three short videos
Wheel, slab roller, and glazing. Required, quick, and they will save you a great deal of guessing on day one. We send the links with your text.
Day one
Studio tour, your own private shelf assigned with your name on it, pick your clay, meet a few people, and start making something. You’ll walk out with a piece in progress.
Still deciding between this month and next?
Join now either way — that’s what locks in this month’s discount. Before the 15th we’ll assume you’re starting now; after the 15th we’ll assume next month; on the 25th or later it’s always next month. Whichever it is, just tell us when we text. And if you’re starting after the 15th, make your first class a Monday or Thursday so we can give you the tour and set up your shelf.
The questions people actually ask.
Do I need any experience?
None. The majority of our members arrived knowing nothing at all 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 genuinely beautiful on your very first day without touching a wheel.
Can I just try one class first?
We don’t offer drop-ins, date nights, or one-off classes — and that’s deliberate rather than greedy. Pottery takes weeks to move a single piece from wet clay to finished, fired object. And community doesn’t happen in one visit; it happens because the same people keep showing up.
What we do instead is make your first month cheap enough to be a real trial. With this month’s code, finding out costs you $50 and you can cancel yourself by the 24th.
Can I really cancel any time?
Yes. No contract, ever. You cancel yourself in the member portal by the 24th of any month and you’re not charged again — and you still get the rest of that month’s classes. It has to be done by you in the portal though; a text or an email to us doesn’t do it.
If you’re only stepping away for a while, pausing is almost always the better move: you keep your shelf, your unused classes, your rewards, and your spot.
What if I sign up now but can’t start until next month?
Completely fine, and very common. Sign up now to lock in this month’s discount, then tell us you’re starting next month when we text you. Nothing is wasted — and if you sign up on the 25th or later, next month is automatically your start month anyway.
Will I actually finish anything in my first month?
Honestly? Maybe, maybe not. 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 roughly two months to see finished work come out the other end. If you want to speed that up, tell an instructor on day one and they’ll steer you toward pieces that move quickly.
What if I try the wheel and hate it?
Then you’ve joined the roughly 80% of people who come here for the wheel and fall in love with the other side of the studio instead. Hand-building, sculpting, and slab molds are where most of the work here actually gets made — big community tables, thousands of tools, and the conversations that turn into friendships. You can switch between all of it, mid-class, forever.
What do I bring, and what should I wear?
Bring nothing on your first day. Everything you need is here, and we’ll sort your clay out when you arrive.
Wear something you genuinely don’t mind getting clay on, and keep your fingernails short — long nails and wet clay are not friends. An apron helps. A towel helps more. Clay washes out of most things, but 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. In the evening classes there will be some cursing, plenty of irreverent joking, and people sometimes bring drinks to share. If that’s your scene, you’ll fit right in, and if you’re on the more conservative side nobody will think twice about it.
If a freewheeling environment isn’t your thing, the Monday daytime class is quieter and more reserved — no alcohol, no cursing. Dan’s mom is there. LGBTQ+ friendly across the board. The one thing we genuinely don’t tolerate is jerks.
Can I bring a friend?
Yes, and it’s a popular program. You pay for their visit and they sign the studio waiver. The one rule: you can’t bring a guest to your own very first class, since we spend a good chunk of that giving you the tour and getting you set up. How Bring a Friend works →
Are there discounts for teachers, military, students, seniors, or first responders?
There are, through our Heroes Discount Program — teachers, military, students, seniors, healthcare workers, first responders, and nonprofit staff. It’s separate from the new member deal above. See if you qualify →
Can I buy a membership as a gift?
Not directly — memberships are non-transferable and every member has to sign up under their own name, email, and phone number so we can text them, assign their shelf, and manage their account. We can’t make exceptions to that one.
What you can do is grab them a gift certificate and let them sign up themselves. Gift certificates →
Can I bring my own clay or glaze?
No outside clay, ever — the wrong clay can destroy a kiln, the kiln shelves, and everyone else’s work in that firing, and the member who brought it is liable for the damage. Clay is purchased through the studio, starting at $28 a bag with member discounts by level.
Glazes work differently: you may buy and use any of the 650+ glazes we carry, including ones above your level, for an upcharge. Anything from outside has to be approved case by case.
What if I hit a rough patch and can’t pay for a month?
Talk to Dan. When there’s work available he’s happy to trade a month or two of membership for help around the studio. There’s only so much of that to go around, so it’s reserved for people genuinely in a bind — but the offer is real.
Can I bring a service animal?
Professionally trained service dogs are welcome with conditions: under 25 lbs, on your lap at all times, hypoallergenic breed, current vaccinations and city licensing. Emotional support and companion animals are not permitted, and we can’t make exceptions.
We do have a studio dog named Mud, and he is very much available for anyone who needs him.
Every other question, answered honestly, on our FAQs page →
Or just text us: 385-241-5528
The membership fine print
One click, all of it, in plain language. 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 it scrolling. The other one has a shelf full of things that did not 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.
The Clay Hole · 12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, UT 84020
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