Handbuilding is arguably the first thing students should learn when beginning their journey with clay. It is fundamental to ceramic education. Pinch, slab, and coil are handbuilding techniques used to make pottery or sculptures with minimal tools or no tools at all. Projects can be simple or complex depending on skill level.

Handbuilding helps students learn the material by slowing the process down. Students experience the drying cycle, learn structural integrity and form, without having to spend countless hours learning how to center clay as one does when learning how to throw on the wheel.

Knowing how to handbuild opens up limitless possibilities with clay, but more than that, it is a fun, intuitive, meditative and healing process.

In all of our handbuilding classes students receive personalized instruction on how to make an object of their desire. Most students make functional or sculptural vessels (mugs, bowls, planters etc.) In class students will complete an object and choose a glaze. We glaze all of our student work.

Although no finished work is gaurenteed most students successfully complete a project. Projects are ready for pick up within 2-4 weeks.

All materials and firings are included.

We host weekly group classes that individuals can join. We also offer private classes to groups and individuals.

Group Parties are a great way to celebrate an occasion, gather friends and family, or creatively bond with co-workers. We have hosted birthday parties, bachelor/bachelorette parties, reunions, team-building parties and more.