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Pottery & Hand-Building Classes

From hand-building beautiful creations to throwing elegant pots and vases on the wheel, you’ll love the uplifting feeling of shaping and sculpting with your hands in our Pottery and Hand Building classes. Creating with clay is equal parts inspiring and relaxing! We start with the essentials and quickly build your skills so you can make some amazing ceramics. 

Choose the type of class that’s right for you! You can also try pottery by signing up for a Workshop.

Intro to Pottery

Begin your pottery and hand-building journey. We’ll guide you step-by-step to learn the fundamentals of how to throw pots on the wheel and to hand-build beautiful projects with clay.

Pottery Wheel Classes

Practice makes perfect, which is especially true with pottery. In this class, you’ll focus on developing your skills to yield consistently great results as you’re learning to create with clay on the pottery wheel. 

Hand Building Classes

Create stylish, functional and fun pieces by hand, learning and refining your skills with slabs, coils, and pinch pots. You’ll also learn how to apply underglazes and glazes.

Queer Pottery

Classes for LGBTQ2S+ identifying adults, providing a safe, inclusive space to relax and have fun building creative sculptures and throwing pottery on the wheel!

BIPOC Pottery

Welcoming, inspiring and affordable classes for BIPOC people to enjoy exploring creativity with clay. 

Sign up for your favourite Pottery class

If you’re enrolling for the first time, please click Register and create an account. Existing students can access our portal to add a class to your account. All classes are Eastern Time.

Pottery Wheel & hand building

Pottery Wheel

hand building

Your instructors

Create Art Studio Ceramics Instructor Thomas Haskell OCADU masters graduate

Thomas Haskell

Intro to Pottery
Handbuilding and Sculpture
Ceramics Specialty Skills
Queer Pottery
 
Create Art Studio Pottery and Hand building Instructor Claire V

Claire Van Driel

Intro to Pottery
Pottery Wheel
 
Create Art Studio Pottery and Hand building Instructor Tamirah

Tamirah Taylor-Solomon

BIPOC Pottery