Learn the fundamentals or level up your wheel throwing skills in this supportive, hands-on class. Beginners will focus on centering, pulling walls, and creating basic forms. Intermediate students can refine techniques, explore new forms, and build consistency.

With a main focus on functional pottery, beginner students will learn how to use the equipment in the studio and how to use the wheel while more advanced students will further use the wheel as a tool to create work made partially or entirely from thrown forms.

Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.

In this 6-week class, you’ll learn to create functional ceramic pieces by hand—no wheel required—while diving into the expressive world of modern majolica-style decoration. We’ll focus on building forms like mugs, plates, platters, and tiles using slab and coil techniques. After bisque firing, you’ll decorate your pieces using a white glaze base and layer on color with underglazes and other paintable colored glazes. Explore techniques like brushwork, layering, line work, and pattern to bring your surfaces to life.

Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.

Spend your next friend get-together or date night in our ceramics lab in Encinitas! Learn to use the wheel, how to throw, center clay, alter shapes, learn to trim and use glazes.

Discover the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi, a philosophy that celebrates flaws and imperfections by mending broken pottery with gold. In this hands-on class, you’ll learn to repair ceramics using traditional techniques and materials, transforming cracks into stunning veins of beauty.