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

Create Art Studio Clay Pottery and Hand-Building classes and workshops for Adults in Toronto

Create Art Studio Clay Pottery classes and workshops for Adults in Toronto

Create Art Studio Clay Pottery classes, workshops and camps for Tweens, Teens, Adults and Families in Toronto

Create Art Studio Clay Hand-building and Sculpture classes and workshops for Adults in Toronto

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.

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What you’ll learn
Our Intro to Pottery classes cover both wheel and hand-building techniques
Fundamental Pottery Wheel process such as centring, and techniques to pulling vessels
Hand-building and sculpture techniques like pinch pots, coil, slab building, carving, and joins
All classes cover how to apply underglazes and layer glazes to create patterns and finishes
All materials and firings are included – as always!
Kiln fire clay
Tools like rolling pins, ribbon tools, sponges and more
Colour underglazes and overglazes

Pottery Wheel Classes

Create Art Studio Clay Pottery classes, workshops and camps for Tweens, Teens and Adults in Toronto

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.

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What you’ll learn
An intensive focus on pottery Wheel techniques, learning to pull vessels of increasing complexity to build your confidence and consistency
The last class will be applying underglazes and layer glazes to create patterns and finishes
All materials and firings are included – as always!
Kiln fire clay
The pottery wheel and associated tools
Colour underglazes and overglazes

Hand Building Classes

Create Art Studio Clay Pottery and Hand-built Sculpture classes and workshops for Adults in Toronto

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.

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What you’ll learn

Creative techniques like pinch pots, coil, slab building, carving, and joining elements

Applying underglazes and layer glazes to create creative patterns and finishes

All materials and firings are included – as always!

Kiln fire clay

Tools like rolling pins, ribbon tools, sponges and more

Colour underglazes and overglazes

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!

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What you’ll learn
Both pottery wheel and hand-building techniques
Fundamental Pottery Wheel process such as centring, and techniques to pulling vessels
Hand-building and sculpture techniques like pinch pots, coil, slab building, carving, and joins
How to apply underglazes and layer glazes to create patterns and finishes
All materials and firings are included – as always!
Kiln fire clay
Tools like rolling pins, ribbon tools, sponges and more
Colour underglazes and overglazes

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

Thomas

Intro to Pottery
Handbuilding and Sculpture
Ceramics Specialty Skills
Queer Pottery

Claire

Intro to Pottery
Pottery Wheel