$48Workshops & Classes · WEDNESDAYS · 6:00 PM
Try It Nights
About
A beginner pottery evening built around one simple, seasonal project each month, with clay, tools, step-by-step teaching, kiln firing and a return glazing visit all included. Sessions run Wednesdays 6–8pm at Potterings, 3400 Harbor Ave SW in West Seattle (Water Taxi to Seacrest Park, then the Metro 775 shuttle), take four students at a time and cost $48. Potterings also schedules one-off weekend workshops such as patterned mugs on 8 November.
Good to know
Pick a date and tell us how many. We arrange it with Potterings for you. Free to ask; nothing is charged today.
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How it compares
- Beginner-friendly
- After work
At $48, this sits toward the low end 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 $24 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
- Sculptural Bud VasesSaltstone Ceramics · Ballard, Fremont & Queen AnneSUN, OCT 25 · $150.00
- Gesture Sculpting in ClayGage Academy of Art · Ballard, Fremont & Queen AnneSUN, OCT 25 · $430
- Intro to Wheel: 6 WeekReclaim Clay Collective · Downtown & Pioneer SquareTUE, OCT 27 · $355-$375-$395 sliding scale
- Drop-in Studio: Clay BasketsFrye Art Museum · Capitol Hill & Central DistrictTHU, OCT 29 · Free
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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