New to Clay?
What is Clayworks?
Clayworks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting ceramic arts, advancing artists and students, and enriching the communities it serves. Clayworks is proud to promote a range of educational opportunities, from clay classes for our youngest students to dedicated studio spaces for professional artists. Visit Clayworks at a free community program in local libraries and recreation centers, or come to our 15,000 square-foot facility to play with clay for in a two-hour workshop, or in a multi-week class.
Ready to Play with Clay?
Two-Hour Private Lessons
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Clayworks offers private lessons for beginners and artists of any level. Choose between throwing on the potter’s wheel or creating a project using handbuilding techniques. Work with one of our talented instructors to make clay project that will last a lifetime. Submit your lesson request here.
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Does your child want to have some muddy fun on their birthday? Clayworks will help you design a fun-filled, creative experience. Led by an experienced instructor, students ages 6-16 work in clay to create a piece of art. The party is 1.5 hours of hands-on creation time and 30 minutes for cake. Learn more and request your party here.
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Clayworks offers team building sessions for corporate and business groups. Expert instructors lead groups through clay-based projects designed specifically with cooperation, teamwork, time management, resilience and creative problem solving in mind. Learn more and contact our team here.
Community Programs & Weekend Workshops
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Ever want to learn to throw on the potter's wheel but cannot commit to a class? Check out a 2-hour weekend workshop to learn wheel basics.
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Each month, Clayworks offers multiple handbuilding workshops for adults and families. Check out our latest listings to see what handbuilding options are coming up.
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Looking for a fiery clay experience? Participants ages 18+ can join a weekend raku firing session to learn this Japanese glazing technique and participate in live firings. Find an upcoming session here.
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Looking for a free Clayworks experience in your neighborhood? Check out a Culture Blocks workshop at your local library or recreation center. During a Culture Blocks workshop with Clayworks, one of our talented teaching artists will lead the participants in a hands-on making session using a variety of handbuilding techniques. The projects will travel back to Clayworks to be dried, fired, and glazed. The workshop location will contact you with pickup instructions. Find a session near you.
Multi-Week CLasses
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Looking to gain a basic understanding of wheel and handbuilding techniques? Check out our beginning clay class to lear your clay fundamentals.
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Clayworks offers multi-week wheel classes for adults at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Learn more and find your class here.
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Are your clay dreams built with slabs, coils, and pinch forms? Join a handbuilding class. Clayworks offers multi-week beginner, intermediate, and advanced handbuilding class. Find your session here.
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Are you an intermediate or advanced level student who wants to learn sculpting techniques to make your ideas come to life? Check out our sculpture classes!
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Are you an intermediate or advanced level student who wants to explore exciting new firing and surface design techniques? Join our multi-week raku course.
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Intermediate or advanced level students who want to explore creative surface design techniques with slips, glazes, cone 6, cone 10 gas, and raku glazing should join our surface design class.
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Embrace your child’s creativity with weekly clay classes! Our 8-week classes run through the school year and have offerings on weekdays and Saturdays. Kids ages 6-10 learn handbuilding skills, while youth ages 11-15 are introduced to the wheel. Find out more here.
“We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”