$399 ($80 studio members)Workshops & Classes · Friday, October 30, 2026
Friday Evening Wheel Boot Camp
About
A six-week wheel class for advanced beginners with instructor Shehryar, built around handling bigger amounts of clay and classic thrown forms: large plates and platters, tall cylinders for pitchers and vases, lidded or narrow-necked pieces, mugs and textured jars, plus trimming, finishing and glazing. It meets Fridays from 7 to 10 pm, Oct 30 to Dec 11 (no class Thanksgiving weekend), at Higher Fire, 499 S Market St in downtown San Jose, a few blocks from the VTA light rail stops near the Convention Center. It costs $399 for regular students or $80 for studio members, with open studio time, 30-plus food-safe glazes and gas-kiln firings included and clay sold separately; the listing showed one seat left. Higher Fire's Tuesday evening wheel projects class is also on our calendar.
Good to know
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How it compares
- After work
At $80, this sits toward the low end of the 65 single-session pottery classes we list in the Bay Area. They run from $10 to $499, and the typical price is $143.
That works out to about $27 an hour for a 3-hour session.
If one session leaves you wanting more, 7 studios we list run multi-week pottery courses, from $65.
Other pottery classes in the Bay Area
- Tuesday Morning Hand-buildingJTown Clay · South BayTUE, OCT 27 · $399–$419 ($100 studio members) · sold out, waitlist
- Hand Build and Raku FireThe Crucible · Oakland & East BayTHRU SUN, OCT 25 · $325 ($302.50 members)
- Clay Play: WheelWheelhouse Clay · SF West SideSUNDAYS · 11 AM · $98
- Planter Pots or Vases Hand-building WorkshopArtillery Ceramics · SF Mission & SouthSUN, OCT 25 · $75
New to pottery?
Most first classes are either a wheel taster, where you learn to centre clay and pull up a cylinder, or hand-building, where you shape a mug, dish or planter with pinch, coil and slab techniques.
- Wear clothes that can get muddy and keep nails short; rings and bracelets come off before the wheel.
- Expect two to three hours for a single session. Clay, tools and firing are almost always in the price; glazing sometimes costs extra.
- A one-time class is the cheap way to find out whether you want a five- or six-week course, which is where the wheel actually starts to click.
Taking it home: Not on the day. Pieces dry, are fired, glazed and fired again, so studios usually hold them for two to four weeks.
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