$85.00Workshops & Classes · FRIDAYS · 5:00 PM
Friday Try Night
About
A two-hour beginner taster on the potter's wheel for people not ready to commit to a full session: up to six students with one instructor learn the basics of throwing, and you may keep one piece, which the studio glazes and fires for you. Try Nights run Fridays 5–7pm from October 30 through December 18 at Of the Earth Collective, 4800 Airport Way S #1 in Georgetown. The $85 fee covers clay and firing; work made after December 15 is ready for pickup in the new year. The studio also runs weekly evening and weekend clay series on our calendar.
Good to know
Pick a date and tell us how many. We arrange it with Of the Earth for you. Free to ask; nothing is charged today.
Read off Of the Earth’s own page. Times and prices can change; the venue’s page wins.
How it compares
- Beginner-friendly
- After work
At $85, this sits about the middle of the 55 single-session pottery classes we list in Seattle. They run from $25 to $650, and the typical price is $98.
That works out to about $43 an hour for a 2-hour session.
If one session leaves you wanting more, 6 studios we list run multi-week pottery courses, from $140.
It starts after work, which only 40% of the pottery classes on our calendar do.
Other pottery classes in Seattle
- Make a Coffee SetSeattle Artist League · South Seattle & GeorgetownTUE, NOV 3 · $150.00
- Raku FiringSeattle Pottery Supply · South Seattle & Georgetown1ST & 3RD SATURDAY · 10:00 AM · $50 per person
- Sculptural Bud VasesSaltstone Ceramics · Ballard, Fremont & Queen AnneSUN, OCT 25 · $150.00
- Make a Travel Tumbler WorkshopPotterings · West SeattleSUN, OCT 25 · $50
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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