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Classes, memberships and firing around New York.

191 studios, 0 on the map so far

92NY Ceramics

Upper East Side, Manhattan

The 92nd Street Y's School of the Arts ceramics program, with adult classes, teen and children's sessions and family workshops.

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ARTrageous Studio

Rockville Centre, Long Island

A Rockville Centre drop-in creative studio centered on paint-your-own pottery and glass fusing, which also runs hand-building 'Create with Clay' sessions and kids' and adult parties.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Abrons Arts Center Ceramics

Manhattan

An arts center's intergenerational hand-building class for ages 7 to adult, with tuition assistance and an annual student show.

ClassesKids classes

AlexCreates, LLC

Port Morris, the Bronx
Hours not confirmed

A Port Morris maker business best known for crochet and fiber goods that has also listed two-hour beginner handbuilding pottery workshops with glazing and firing included.

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AlterWork Studios

Astoria, Queens

An Astoria art school whose ceramics courses cover intro and intermediate wheel and handbuilding, alongside printmaking and darkroom classes.

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Art & Clay Studio by Rabbit Hole Club

Flushing, Queens

A Flushing art and clay studio with sculpting, glazing and pottery sessions, after-school groups, summer camp, short pottery memberships and paint-your-own.

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Art Attelier

Shawangunk, the Hudson Valley

A ceramics school in the Shawangunk area of Ulster County running small six-week wheel and hand-building courses, private lessons, homeschool clay sessions, raku and a children's summer camp.

ClassesOpen studioKiln firingWorkshopsKids classes

Art Barrio

Astoria, Queens
Hours not confirmed

An Astoria art venue that sells tickets to hand-built pottery sessions covering coil, slab and sculptural construction, with one piece glazed and fired.

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Art Lab

Snug Harbor, Staten Island

An art school on the Snug Harbor grounds with ceramic handbuilding classes for adults and young artists, plus a ceramic open studio session. No wheel class was listed.

ClassesOpen studioKids classes

Art League of Long Island

Dix Hills, Long Island

A Dix Hills art league described by a local guide as having an equipped ceramics studio; its current class schedule page listed no ceramics, so availability needs checking.

Art Mora Pottery Studio

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Ridgefield Park studio listed with adult classes and handbuilding.

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Artesana Pottery

Union City, New Jersey

A Union City studio where pottery classes are taught, with schedule and policies on its site.

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Artscape Atelier

Ardsley, Westchester
Hours not confirmed

An Ardsley multi-discipline art studio whose pottery sessions cover hand-building and wheel throwing in class packs, drop-ins and private lessons, alongside clay sculpture from a model and other art classes.

ClassesKiln firingKids classes

Artshack Brooklyn

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

A Bed-Stuy clay center running adult wheel and handbuilding classes, youth afterschool programs and camps, and free community days. It also has a residency, gallery, shop and cafe.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Ashcan Clay (Ashcan Studio of Art)

Little Neck, Queens

The pottery arm of the Ashcan Studio of Art school, running six- and seven-week wheel and handbuilding courses for adults, teens and kids, plus one-day and two-person date workshops, at studios in Little Neck, Flushing and Syosset.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Atacama Clay Studio

Jersey City, New Jersey

A Jersey City appointment-only studio with one-time wheel and handbuilding sessions, six-week beginner courses, sessions for those 55 and over, youth workshops and memberships.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firingWorkshopsKids classes

Atelier Beroj

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

A multidisciplinary Brooklyn design studio making ceramic lighting, tableware and furniture that books one-on-one and small private group ceramic workshops.

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BAT Clay Studio

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

A 12-member studio for experienced ceramicists in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, with a public weekday showroom selling members' work. It teaches no classes.

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BISC Pottery Studio

Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Scotch Plains studio listed with adult and kids' wheel, handbuilding and raku, camps, parties, memberships, open studio and outside firing.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingKids classes

BKLYN CLAY

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

A large ceramics school with semester classes, one-time try-it nights and a waitlisted 24-hour membership, in Brooklyn and Tribeca. It also sells supplies and offers outside firing and kiln rentals.

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Barro

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A Greenpoint and Bushwick pottery studio that, per its own notice, stopped offering classes and memberships from September 2026, pointing students to a successor studio.

Belmar Clay Project

Belmar, New Jersey

A Jersey Shore clay studio for ages 16 and up running six-week wheel-throwing courses, two-hour BYOB wheel workshops, handbuilt mug pop-ups and private group sessions, with an open studio calendar.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsPrivate events

Bes

Millerton, the Hudson Valley
Hours not confirmed

A Millerton shop and studio listed with adult wheel and handbuilding courses, private lessons, workshops and exhibitions.

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Betty's Ceramics Club

Jersey City, New Jersey

A Hamilton Park ceramics club with adult and children's handbuilding and wheel classes, date and try nights, camps, parties and memberships after a beginner course.

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Blue Room Pottery Studio

Brooklyn

A pottery studio on Union Street that takes part in the Brooklyn Ceramic Arts Tour. Its own home page returned no readable content, so offerings are unconfirmed.

Blue Skies Pottery

Hoboken, New Jersey

A pottery school in Hoboken's Monroe Center and Long Branch, with adult and youth courses, grown-up-and-me sessions, classes for students with disabilities and a Hoboken membership.

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Brian R Jones Studio

Madison, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A Madison potter's studio listed as teaching wheel throwing and handbuilding to beginners and experienced potters through classes and workshops.

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BrickHouse Ceramic Art Center

Long Island City, Queens

A Long Island City ceramics center teaching wheel, handbuilding and glazing year-round, with kids' and teen classes, workshops, an associate artist program and a shop.

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Bronx Clay

South Bronx, the Bronx
Hours not confirmed

A Bronx ceramics cooperative formed to bring clay education to Black and Brown communities in the South Bronx through bilingual, sliding-scale and free community workshops.

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Bronx River Art Center

the Bronx

A community art center on East Tremont Avenue with low-priced pay-per-class pottery, wheel-throwing and handbuilding sessions for teens and adults, some shared by youth and adult pairs.

ClassesKids classes

Brookfield Craft Center

Brookfield, Connecticut

A craft school campus on the Still River with a clay studio teaching wheel, handbuilding and glazing, rotating specialty workshops, youth after-school and homeschool clay, and open studio sessions.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Brooklyn Clay Industries

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn

A Navy Yard studio combining classes and studio space with a broad service side: public firing, kiln rental, glaze mixing, mold making and equipment repair.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Brooklyn Peoples Pottery

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

A small Bergen Street studio sharing space with a production ceramics studio, teaching six-week semi-private wheel series capped at six students and renting member space with wheels and three kilns.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firing

Brooklyn Pottery Studio

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The pottery program of Bat Haus, a Williamsburg coworking and event venue, running hosted handbuilding sessions for private groups, birthdays and corporate teams, with an option to bring the workshop to offices.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Burnt Mill Potters

Branchburg, New Jersey

A Somerset County pottery business with weekly classes and a gift shop in Whitehouse and workshops, kids' classes and open studio for experienced potters in Branchburg.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Bushwick Ceramics

Bushwick, Brooklyn

A Bushwick studio teaching wheel and handbuilding, with one flat-rate membership that includes discounted clay and classes plus full kiln rental and luster firing access.

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CLAY by Indigo Road Studio

South Orange, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A South Orange studio listed with adult and kids' wheel and handbuilding classes and private lessons.

ClassesKids classes

CLAYFORM

East Moriches, Long Island

An East Moriches studio with wheel and handbuilding classes, workshops, memberships and kiln rental by inquiry.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firingWorkshops

Centerpoint Ceramics

Bushwick, Brooklyn

A Bushwick basement studio with memberships, small-group and one-on-one lessons, hourly open studio for experienced potters and drop-off firing or full-kiln rental.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Ceramics on 10th

Manhattan

A Tenth Avenue wheel-focused studio with weekly evening classes by level and a teacherless session for independent potters.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioShop

Chambers Pottery

Manhattan

A second-floor Manhattan studio teaching wheel and handbuilding at all levels, with free open studio for enrolled students and a small waitlisted Studio Potter program.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studio

Charles Street Studios

Northvale, New Jersey

A Bergen County workspace for ceramic artists with a 24-hour shelf membership, along with wheel, handbuilding and private classes.

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Choplet Ceramic Studio & Gallery

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A studio dating to 2005 with adult and children's classes, memberships and drop-in time across Williamsburg and a Greenpoint branch opened in late 2025. Outside artists can buy firing and rent kilns.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Clay Art Center

Port Chester, Westchester

A ceramics center with weekly classes for adults and children, one-time classes, artist residencies, a gallery and a shop, firing to cone 6 and cone 10.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Clay Art Guild of the Hamptons

Water Mill, Long Island
Hours not confirmed

A nonprofit guild of East End clay artists in Water Mill that has run classes and workshops for adults and children, member studio space and group firings, plus annual pottery sales.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classes

Clay Art Workshop

Glen Cove, Long Island
Hours not confirmed

A Glen Cove studio listed with adult and kids' wheel and handbuilding classes on Mondays and Saturdays.

ClassesKids classes

Clay Space

North Brooklyn, Brooklyn

A North Brooklyn ceramic center with semester classes, one-off try nights, children's programs and memberships, plus an outside firing portal.

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Clay Studio New Haven

Chapel West, New Haven, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A combined working studio and retail gallery near Yale making functional and woodfired pottery, which also runs small wheel-throwing classes of up to four students when a session forms.

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Clay and Kiln Studio

West Brighton, Staten Island
Hours not confirmed

A West Brighton walk-in pottery painting studio that also runs themed seasonal workshops, kids' craft classes, parties, fundraisers and class trips.

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Clay in the Potters Hands

Sandy Hook, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A Sandy Hook (Newtown) pottery studio listed as running classes and workshops for adults and kids, private lessons and custom orders, and showing the owner's Brazilian-influenced ceramics.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classes

Clayground Pottery Studio

Teaneck, New Jersey

A Teaneck second-floor studio selling per-piece wheel and handbuilding sessions with glazing and firing included, plus private events and birthday parties.

ClassesPrivate events

Clayhouse Brooklyn

Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

A Cobble Hill studio with adult semester and one-time classes, children's afterschool and camp programs, and waitlisted in-studio and at-home memberships. It does not fire for outsiders.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Clayworks On Columbia

Brooklyn

A storefront pottery studio and public gallery with classes, youth programs, a keyholder membership and an artist residency page. Its site described in-person classes as on hold alongside online ones.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Cornell Creative Arts Center

Kingston (Midtown), the Hudson Valley

A Kingston community arts center with a separate ceramics and sculpture studio offering shelf memberships for experienced potters, supervised open-studio sessions, paint-your-own pottery and firing in gas and electric kilns.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingPrivate events

Cote Clayworks

Brookfield, Connecticut

A Brookfield studio teaching six-week wheel lessons, handbuilding group workshops, BYOB single wheel sessions and private lessons, with memberships.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsPrivate events

Country Squire Pottery

Somerville, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Somerville studio and gallery led by a studio potter, listed as teaching wheel and handbuilding lessons and raku workshops, and selling stoneware, porcelain and raku made with in-house glazes.

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Create Escape Studio

New Milford, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A New Milford creative studio mixing paint-your-own pottery with clay handbuilding and wheel-throwing sessions, including a 90-minute starter wheel session and four- or six-week wheel series.

ClassesKiln firing

Creative Arts Workshop

New Haven, Connecticut

A nonprofit community art school in New Haven whose pottery department runs multi-week adult wheel and clay courses, from introductory ceramics to a self-directed advanced lab, with weekly practice time included.

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DOCLAY NYC

Manhattan
Hours not confirmed

A Midtown studio listed on the Kiln Fire pottery directory. Its own site refused automated fetching, so offerings are unconfirmed.

Dan Harelick Studio Art

the Bronx

A Bronx art teacher's studio offering handbuilding, sculpture and wheel lessons for all ages, with private lessons, date nights and a summer camp.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events

Dirtbag ArtHaus

Bushwick, Brooklyn

A Bushwick art studio with ceramics courses, try nights, day passes and memberships, along with drawing and painting programs and private parties.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingPrivate events

Dumbo Ceramics

Dumbo, Brooklyn

A Dumbo pottery venue listed for beginner try nights and on the Brooklyn Ceramic Arts Tour as a shared studio. Its own pages returned no readable details.

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Dusty & Co Ceramic

NoMad, Manhattan

A 4,000-square-foot NoMad studio with memberships, eight-week semester classes, weekend try classes, workshops, co-working lounges and private events.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsPrivate events

Earth Arts Pottery Studio

Long Beach, Long Island

A Long Beach and Garden City pottery business combining walk-in painting with wheel sessions, handbuilding workshops, kids' parties and an app-access membership with weekly firings.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Earthworks NYC

Upper East Side, Manhattan

A First Avenue studio teaching weekly all-level clay classes, mainly on electric wheels, with paid bench time for registered students and private beginner groups.

ClassesKiln firingPrivate events

Elevated Space Art Studio

Teaneck, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Teaneck art studio listed as teaching pottery (wheel and handbuilding), drawing and resin to children and adults, with summer camps, a teen open studio and parties.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events

Elly's Arts & Crafts

Forest Hills, Queens

A Forest Hills craft studio offering pottery painting along with hands-on clay handbuilding classes and group parties.

ClassesPrivate events

Fall Kill Creative Works

Poughkeepsie, the Hudson Valley

A Poughkeepsie organization with a Main Street clay studio offering eight-session wheel and handbuilding classes, one-day workshops, youth programs, open studio and private lessons.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Fire Me Up Studio

Cranford, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Cranford studio listed with pottery wheel and handbuilding alongside paint-your-own and canvas painting, plus camps, parties, memberships and open studio.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKids classesPrivate events

Flatbush Clay Works

Flatbush, Brooklyn

A basement studio space on Linden Boulevard offering monthly memberships with workspace, firing and a range of clays and glazes.

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Flemington Pottery

Flemington, New Jersey

A Flemington studio running mixed-level eight-week wheel courses across the week, four-week intro courses and two-hour try-it classes, with free open studio hours for enrolled students and twice-yearly pottery sales.

ClassesOpen studio

For Love of Mud

Vernon, New Jersey

A small Vernon pottery studio offering six-week adult classes, private lessons, one-visit pottery experiences, BYOB Sip & Spin nights and private group events for ages 7 and up.

ClassesWorkshopsPrivate events

Frost Ceramics & Mercantile

Sea Cliff, Long Island
Hours not confirmed

A Sea Cliff studio and shop listed with weekly all-level wheel classes, private parties, open studio, shibori sessions and artist pop-ups.

ClassesOpen studioKids classesPrivate eventsShop

Garrison Art Center

Garrison, the Hudson Valley

A Garrison art center with ten-week adult pottery and handbuilding classes that include weekly studio hours, plus teen and family clay.

ClassesOpen studioKids classes

Gasworks NYC

Brooklyn

A Fifth Avenue studio with weekly adult classes, kids' programs and 24-hour memberships, firing electric, gas, wood and soda. It runs subsidized and free classes for marginalized communities.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Gather Studio

Patchogue, Long Island
Hours not confirmed

A Patchogue studio listed with wheel and handbuilding for adults and kids, memberships, open studio for experienced clay workers and outside firing.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingKids classes

Gold Coast Arts Center

Great Neck, Long Island

A Great Neck arts school with ceramics for young children through adults, including hand-building, wheel introduction, glazing and family workshops.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classes

Gotham Pottery

Manhattan

A studio open daily with two-hour pottery and handbuilding workshops, date nights, kids' classes and group events, plus open studio and membership options.

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Greenwich House Pottery

Greenwich Village, Manhattan

A ceramics center in the Village with a second Chelsea studio, offering all-level classes, workshops, kids' wheel and family clay, an artist membership, a residency and a gallery.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classesResidency

Guilford Art Center

Guilford, Connecticut

A shoreline craft school with a well-equipped clay studio running ten-week adult ceramics classes, one-night Friday workshops and after-school pottery for kids and tweens.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classesShop

Happy Hands Art & Pottery

Wilton, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A Wilton pottery and art studio listed as offering handbuilding classes for all ages, after-school programs, summer camps, paint-your-own pottery and birthday parties.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events

Happy Medium

Manhattan

A Market Street art cafe listed with two-hour wheel and handbuilding classes including clay and one fired piece, open wheel sessions for returning students, and candle-making.

ClassesOpen studio

Have a Nice Clay

Westfield, New Jersey

A Westfield studio with wheel and handbuilding classes for adults, kids and families, pottery painting, camps, parties and a 24-hour potters' membership.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Hey Clay

Brooklyn

A studio built around flexible memberships and an eight-week beginner program, with no lock-in periods. Non-members can book shared bisque and glaze firings.

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Hobbyhouse

Borough Park, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A crafts studio listed in a pottery directory with all-level pottery classes alongside painting, wood and glass projects and birthday parties, with Brooklyn branches on 14th Avenue and Bedford Avenue.

ClassesWorkshopsPrivate events

Hudson Valley Pottery

Rhinebeck, the Hudson Valley

A Rhinebeck studio with six-week beginner and intermediate sessions, kids' clay days and after-school program, private lessons and scheduled open studio hours.

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Island Pottery & Studio

Mineola, Long Island

A Mineola studio with multi-week wheel and handbuilding programs, teen and kids' sessions, adults-only evenings, private parties and a retail shop, plus a monthly workspace membership.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

JBT Clayworks

Syosset, Long Island
Hours not confirmed

A small pottery studio in a greenhouse cottage at a Syosset florist, run by a working ceramicist who gives private and small-group lessons in throwing and glazing with materials and firing included.

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Jersey Clay

Wharton, New Jersey

A Wharton studio running beginner and six-week classes and themed workshops including raku, underglaze and holiday projects.

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Katonah Art Center

Mount Kisco, Westchester

A Mount Kisco art school with semester-long adult pottery classes taught by several instructors and open pottery time for enrolled students.

ClassesOpen studio

KeramoStudio

Brooklyn

A very small-class pottery and handbuilding studio with two Brooklyn addresses and in-studio and at-home memberships.

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Kingston Ceramics Studio

Kingston (Midtown), the Hudson Valley
Hours not confirmed

A large third-floor studio in Kingston's Midtown with ongoing drop-in style intro and intermediate classes, teen and kids clay, short workshops, private lessons and parties, and 24/7 open-studio membership.

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La Mano Pottery

Chelsea, Manhattan

A sizable Manhattan pottery school with all-level adult and kids' classes, seven-day practice time and in-studio or at-home memberships. Mud Matters in Hell's Kitchen is its sister studio.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Long Island Clay

Huntington, Long Island

A Huntington ceramics studio teaching throwing in three levels and all-level handbuilding, with low-cost hourly open studio for students and memberships.

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Lore Ceramics Studio

Metuchen, New Jersey

A Metuchen studio with single wheel throwdowns, weekly classes, skills workshops and memberships for experienced ceramic artists.

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Lovelight Handmade

Bradley Beach, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Bradley Beach maker of ceramic candles that hosts handbuilding workshops (mugs, platters, boards, coasters, ornaments), private group workshops and wheel lessons including a date-night format.

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Lucky Pig Pottery

Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A DeKalb Avenue studio listed with adult and kids' wheel and handbuilding, paint-your-own, monthly workshops, parties, memberships and outside firing.

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MADE: My Art & Design Experience

Mamaroneck, Westchester
Hours not confirmed

A Mamaroneck walk-in art studio for kids and adults with art projects, after-school classes, camps and parties, plus small private pottery wheel lessons.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events

MUGI Pottery

Upper West Side, Manhattan

An Amsterdam Avenue studio with adult and porcelain classes, kids' and teens' programs, monthly wheel intros, couples nights and parties.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Maison Clay

Brooklyn

A small-class pottery studio on Meserole Street with semester workshops, one-time classes, private lessons and a 24-hour membership.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsPrivate events

Makerspace NYC

Brooklyn

A multi-discipline makerspace in the Brooklyn Army Terminal whose ceramics studio has beginner classes, monthly ceramics memberships and glaze firing. A Staten Island branch is by appointment.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firing

Manny Cantor Center Ceramics

Manhattan

A community center's pottery program with adult handbuilding and wheel classes and an independent members' studio with firing included.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firing

Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan Ceramics Studio

Upper West Side, Manhattan

The Upper West Side JCC's in-person ceramics studio, offering mixed-level wheel and beginner handbuilding classes, student studio time, and a monthly open studio pass for approved advanced potters.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firing

Monello Art + Design

Wayne, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Wayne ceramics and art space, previously known as Fun Creation Studio, listed as offering wheel-throwing and handbuilding classes for adults and kids, private lessons and parties.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events

Montclair Art Museum Yard School of Art

Montclair, New Jersey

The Montclair Art Museum's studio school offers eight-week adult wheel courses from functional ware to advanced throwing, Friday Wine and Wheel nights, raku and specialty workshops, plus wheel classes for children.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classes

Montgomery Pottery

Wingdale, the Hudson Valley

A Wingdale pottery studio running seasonal weekly classes for all levels in wheel and hand-building, decorating and glazing, with cone 10 reduction firing and raku, pit and horsehair work.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshops

Mouse Ceramic Studio

Brooklyn

A neighborhood studio with classes, workshops and two membership levels, plus an annex a short distance away used for private lessons and parties. Membership is independent work without instruction.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Mud & Soul Clayworks

Fairfield, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Fairfield, New Jersey studio listed with adult wheel and handbuilding, private lessons and parties, open studio, memberships and a gallery of member work.

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Mud Clay Studio

Montclair, New Jersey

A northern New Jersey clay studio group with branches in Montclair, Madison and Mendham, running adult wheel and handbuilding courses, BYOB evening events, kids' and teen programs and open studio memberships.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Mud Matters

Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

A Tenth Avenue studio with multi-week wheel and handbuilding courses, two-hour workshops, private lessons and a membership for experienced potters. It is the sister studio of La Mano Pottery.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshops

Mud Spinners Pottery Studio and Gallery

Ridgewood, New Jersey

A Ridgewood studio and gallery offering adult and kids' wheel and handbuilding classes, private lessons, parties and Mud & Merlot nights.

ClassesKids classesPrivate eventsShop

Mudtown Ceramics

Milford, New Jersey

A membership-focused community pottery studio opened in 2024 in rural Hunterdon County, with long daily access hours, wheel and handbuilding stations, and classes, workshops and private lessons alongside.

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Myrtle's Clayhouse

Ridgewood, Queens

A Ridgewood studio with multi-week wheel and handbuilding classes that include practice time and firing, two-hour themed workshops, and a separate members' studio.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

New York New Jersey Academy of Ceramic Art

Jersey City, New Jersey

A Jersey City ceramics academy built around ten-week courses and a raku workshop, with a kiln mainly for enrolled students and an open house after each term.

ClassesWorkshops

Newbury Pottery Studio

Boonton, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Boonton ceramics studio listed with wheel-throwing classes for adults, open studio memberships and private lessons.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studio

Noble Plateware

South Slope, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A Brooklyn production studio making handmade dinnerware for restaurants and home cooks, which describes upcoming adult workshops and courses plus a free teen clay program with public schools.

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Not Work Related

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

A small Greenpoint ceramics brand making playful functional ware that also teaches private wheel lessons for one or two people and brings handbuilding workshops to offices and groups.

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Off Center Ceramics

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

A Williamsburg membership studio with firing included in monthly tiers, plus beginner classes, one-on-one sessions and masterclasses.

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Old Borough Hall Pottery

High Bridge, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A pottery studio paired with the Clay + Cloth Artisan Boutique in High Bridge, running seasonal class sessions with student-only open studio, plus two-hour private lessons and clay dates.

ClassesOpen studioShop

Outside the Lines Art Studio

Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Hamilton Township art studio listed as offering pottery classes for kids, teens and adults, wheel and handbuilding memberships, paint-your-own pottery and birthday parties.

ClassesMembershipsKids classesPrivate events

Ovington Pottery

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

A small Bay Ridge studio in a brownstone teaching ten-week wheel and handbuilding sessions in tiny groups, plus monthly themed clay nights, date-night lessons, raku and a glaze-and-fire-only home membership.

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Oxum NYC

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A Greenpoint porcelain and home-goods maker with a Grand Central store that sells hand-building pottery experiences for pairs and small family groups, with studio staff glazing and firing the pieces.

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Peekskill Clay Studios

Peekskill, Westchester

A studio in Peekskill's Hat Factory building offering wheel and handbuilding courses by level, plus a teen wheel and sculpture class.

ClassesKids classes

Pottery NYC

Manhattan

A Ninth Avenue studio known for an inexpensive clay sampler class, with work fired and picked up at nearby Zerimar Clay.

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Pottery On Wheels

West Islip, Long Island

A West Islip wheel studio offering hourly lessons and workshops, adult and teen parties and team-building, on site or at a customer's location, with glazing and firing handled by the studio.

ClassesWorkshopsPrivate events

Pottery Peace

West Nyack, the Hudson Valley
Hours not confirmed

A West Nyack studio listed with adult and kids' multi-session wheel and handbuilding courses and community art events.

ClassesKids classes

Pottery Studio 1

Lower Manhattan, Manhattan

A multi-location class operator running two-hour beginner wheel and handbuilding sessions, children's classes and pottery parties in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

ClassesOpen studioKids classesPrivate events

Pottery-on-Hudson

Ardsley, Westchester
Hours not confirmed

A pottery program at St. Barnabas Church in Ardsley, named in local guides to Westchester clay studios.

Powerhouse Arts Community Ceramics Studio

Brooklyn

The public ceramics floor of an arts organization, with application-based memberships, hourly and daily drop-in use, and firing in big electric and gas kilns. Wheelchair-accessible equipment is a stated feature.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firingWorkshopsResidency

Putnam Arts Council

Mahopac, the Hudson Valley

A nonprofit arts center in a historic Mahopac barn whose pottery studio hosts six-week wheel and hand-building courses for teens and adults, kids' clay, family workshops, sip-and-create nights and monitored open studio for students.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Pyra

Brooklyn

A Lewis Avenue ceramics studio offering six-week beginner-friendly wheel and handbuilding classes and memberships with private shelves and backyard access.

ClassesMemberships

RNK Ceramics

Long Island City, Queens
Hours not confirmed

A Long Island City studio with small-group adult wheel and handbuilding classes in Korean-influenced forms such as planters and bowls.

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Railyard Arts Studio

Croton Falls, Westchester

A Route 22 arts studio with weekly adult clay and art classes, kids' and teen classes and workshops, plus shelf and table pottery memberships that were full with a waitlist.

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Ridgewood Ceramics

Ridgewood, Queens

A Ridgewood membership and class studio with cone 6 electric firing for members and enrolled students, and specialty firings by arrangement.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshops

River Ceramics Studio

Chatham, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Chatham clay studio offering four-week beginner classes and small-group drop-in workshops of six to eight people, with a later return visit to glaze.

ClassesWorkshops

River Hill Pottery Collective

Connecticut

A Fairfield County pottery collective with small classes, group experiences and member open studio time, known for member-made tiles sold commercially.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioPrivate events

Rock Clay

Glen Rock, New Jersey

A Glen Rock studio with mixed-level classes, specialty workshops and memberships for ages 13 and up. Firing is for students and members only.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshops

Rockland Center for the Arts

West Nyack, the Hudson Valley

A West Nyack arts center with ceramics classes in wheel and handbuilding for adults, plus family, children's and teen wheel programs and bench time.

ClassesOpen studioKids classes

Round Clay Studio & Designs

Chatham, the Hudson Valley
Hours not confirmed

A Chatham studio and showroom for an artist's Round Designs line that is listed as teaching hand-building and pottery wheel lessons, including date-night sessions, by appointment.

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Sandy Mones Pottery

Jersey City, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Jersey City studio listed with wheel and handbuilding, paint-your-own, adult and kids' classes, memberships and parties.

ClassesMembershipsKids classesPrivate eventsShop

Scatter Matter Studio

Frenchtown, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Frenchtown ceramics studio listed as offering pottery classes in wheel throwing, handbuilding and glazing for beginners and experienced potters, plus open studio access.

ClassesOpen studio

Scratch Ceramics

Ridgewood, Queens

A Ridgewood studio teaching eight-week wheel and handbuilding courses, workshops, one-night intros and kids' classes, with 24-hour memberships.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classes

Sculpture Space NYC

Long Island City, Queens

A center for art and ceramics offering pottery classes, shared and individual studio space, residencies and a curatorial program.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsResidency

Silica Studio 845

Beacon, the Hudson Valley

A community pottery studio in Beacon's Kube Art Center with beginner and walk-in classes, private session packages, parties, kiln rentals and 24-hour memberships.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

Silk Road Ceramics Studio

Staten Island
Hours not confirmed

A Staten Island studio listed as offering adult and kids' classes, wheel and handbuilding, open studio, memberships for experienced potters and private events.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Silvermine Arts Center

New Canaan, Connecticut

A New Canaan arts center and school with ceramics courses and workshops in Andrews Hall, and non-instructional open studios for enrolled students.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshops

Slip Studio

White Plains, Westchester

A White Plains handbuilding-focused studio with weekly sessions by level, a membership and kids' parties. Wheel work was not mentioned on the classes page.

ClassesMembershipsPrivate events

Slo Slo Studio

Manhattan

A Henry Street studio running small one-off classes in wheel throwing and themed handbuilding such as tea cups and bento boxes, with a membership program.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshops

Slow Burn Ceramics

Brooklyn

A South Brooklyn studio offering classes, workshops, memberships and children's clay camps.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classes

Stilclay

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A Greenpoint ceramics school and maker brand, founded in 2011, listed with weekly wheel and handbuilding classes for children and adults plus single workshops.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classesShop

Studio 89

Highland, the Hudson Valley
Hours not confirmed

A pottery and multidisciplinary studio and shop in Highland's hamlet, offering ongoing wheel and hand-building classes, one-time workshops, Sip and Spin nights, family and kids sessions, and a member program.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioWorkshopsKids classes

Studio Calmplex

Manhattan
Hours not confirmed

A lower-level East 50th Street studio with a tearoom, listed with wheel and handbuilding courses, Korean porcelain, kyusu teapot making, kids' and adult classes and open studio.

ClassesOpen studioKids classesPrivate events

Studio Clay Op

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A Greenpoint studio named by Barro as its successor for enrollment. Details were not confirmed because its own site could not be opened.

Studio E Art & Clay

Rocky Point, Long Island
Hours not confirmed

A Rocky Point studio listed with wheel and handbuilding for preschoolers through adults, memberships, open studio and outside firing.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingKids classes

Supermud Pottery

Upper West Side, Manhattan

An Upper West Side studio and gift shop teaching handbuilding, wheel and glazing to adults, children and adult-child pairs, with practice hours for students. Visits are by reservation only.

ClassesOpen studioKids classesShop

Thatcher Clay Studio

Newtown, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

An independently owned Newtown ceramics studio listed as offering group classes, single and private lessons for adults and children, memberships with open studio access, and a pottery gallery.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKids classesShop

The Art School at Old Church

Demarest, New Jersey

An art school in Demarest with ceramics courses, ceramics open studio, young artist courses by age group and a summer camp. Enrollment requires an annual membership.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKids classes

The Brick Clay Studio & Gallery

St. James, Long Island

A nonprofit ceramics collective at Flowerfield with handbuilding and wheel classes, open studio hours for working ceramicists and a member-run gallery. Residencies were described as planned.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsShop

The Clay Pot Pottery Studio

Spotswood, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Spotswood studio offering wheel experiences, handbuilding, raku workshops and parties. Dates on its home page ran to 2020, so current operation is unconfirmed.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

The Craft Salon Studio

Brooklyn

A children's craft studio with after-school ceramics in wheel and handbuilding, plus camps and birthday parties. An adult beginner ceramics course was also listed on a booking marketplace.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events

The Newburgh Pottery

Newburgh, the Hudson Valley

A Newburgh studio with eight-week fundamentals courses, summer camps, birthday parties, family nights, home school programs and memberships.

ClassesMembershipsKids classesPrivate events

The Painted Pot

Park Slope, Brooklyn

A Park Slope paint-your-own pottery shop that also teaches handbuilding to adults and runs after-school clay, camps, private lessons and parties.

ClassesKids classesPrivate eventsShop

The Painter's Loft DIY Art & Pottery Wheel Studio

Pennington, New Jersey

A walk-in DIY art studio (paint-your-own pottery, canvas, candles) that also teaches the pottery wheel through one-time try-it classes, kids' clay and wheel courses, private lessons and studio memberships, at Pennington and Quaker Bridge Mall.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

The Potter's Wheel

Kew Gardens, Queens

A Kew Gardens studio running seven-week handbuilding and wheel sessions for all levels, with services reserved for enrolled students and a small gallery of student work.

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The Pottery Factory

Norwalk, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A Norwalk pottery and craft studio offering try-it wheel classes, walk-in sessions, a six-week wheel course and ceramic painting, along with candle pouring and glass fusing.

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The Pottery Studio

Gowanus, Brooklyn

A membership-and-class studio chain with New York branches in Gowanus, Chelsea, Greenpoint and the Upper East Side. Branches differ in firing: Gowanus fires cone 10 reduction and Chelsea is electric mid-range.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firing

The Studio Fairfield

Fairfield, Connecticut

A Fairfield art school with pottery wheel and handbuilding classes for adults, kids and teens, camps and keyless-entry memberships for trained potters.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classes

The Wortendyke Studio

Midland Park, New Jersey

A pottery teaching studio in an 1865 railroad station, offering classes since 1989 along with parties and Scout outings.

ClassesPrivate events

Third Avenue Clay

Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A long-running Park Slope-area teaching studio where one instructor runs small weekly three-hour clay classes for children and adults, covering handbuilding, wheel throwing and glaze preparation.

ClassesWorkshopsKids classes

Tobang Ceramic Studio

Fort Lee, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Fort Lee ceramic studio listed with adult classes and handbuilding.

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Togei Kyoshitsu of New York

Midtown, Manhattan

A Manhattan ceramics school offering one-day and multi-week classes alongside open studio, key-access and room-share memberships.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studio

Tribeca Clayworks

Tribeca, Manhattan

The ceramics program of Manhattan Youth's Downtown Community Center, with all-level semester sessions, one-day samplers and family clay days. Enrolled students get open studio hours.

ClassesOpen studioKiln firingWorkshopsKids classes

Untamed Arts

Hackensack, New Jersey
Hours not confirmed

A Hackensack art studio described in a local feature as offering small-group wheel sessions, handbuilding and multi-week ceramics courses.

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Uptown Clay

Washington Heights, Manhattan

A Washington Heights community pottery studio and retail gallery with adult, teen and kids' classes, try-wheel sessions, memberships and a woodfire intensive.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

VEME Studios

Greenport, Long Island

A small multi-media art studio and shop in Greenport's Bootleg Alley offering private hand-building pottery lessons, pottery workshops, a kids' clay program, a bookable self-guided Art Bar and private parties.

ClassesOpen studioWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Village Center for the Arts

New Milford, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A nonprofit art center in downtown New Milford offering private pottery wheel lessons, adult handbuilding, kids' and homeschool clay classes, couples' wheel nights, and pay-as-you-go open studio with hourly wheel rental.

ClassesOpen studioKiln firingWheel rentalWorkshops

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Summit, New Jersey

A Summit art center and school with many ceramics courses covering beginner through advanced wheel and handbuilding, and an open studio page.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studio

Wagner College Department for Lifelong Learning (ceramics)

Grymes Hill, Staten Island
Hours not confirmed

Wagner College's continuing-education department has listed public ceramics courses, monthly open ceramics studio sessions and multi-day kids' ceramic arts programs on its Staten Island campus.

ClassesOpen studioKids classes

Warwick Pottery Studio

Warwick, the Hudson Valley

A Warwick studio with six-week adult classes, private or group clay experiences, scout events and children's birthday parties, plus an open studio sign-up.

ClassesOpen studioKids classesPrivate events

Water Street Potters

Torrington, Connecticut
Hours not confirmed

A Torrington pottery store and studio with five work stations for monthly rental, regular firings included, plus single-session wheel try-outs, a beginner handbuilding course and space for members to sell their work.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingShop

Wedge Ceramics

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Hours not confirmed

A Clinton Hill studio near the Navy Yard offering 24/7 communal and at-home firing memberships, plus beginner wheel and handbuilding classes and a monthly open studio.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firingWorkshops

West Side YMCA ArtWorks Ceramics

Manhattan

The West Side YMCA's ceramics program, with a broad weekly schedule of wheel and handbuilding classes from beginner to advanced, and open studio for class participants.

ClassesOpen studioKiln firing

Wilcoxson Brooklyn Ceramics

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

A Greenpoint ceramics workshop teaching semester courses in wheel throwing, handbuilding and slip casting, with a separate loft studio nearby.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firing

Wilton Pottery

Wilton, Connecticut

A Wilton studio with two-hour beginner wheel classes, multi-week courses, workshops, kids' after-school pottery and a cone 6 membership with no firing fees.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classes

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Ceramics

Woodstock, the Hudson Valley

The ceramics program of a long-running Woodstock arts colony, based in the Byrdcliffe Barn, with seasonal wheel, hand-building, soda and raku courses, independent-study studio access, private lessons and firing for outside work.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firing

Wooten Clayworks

Hackettstown, New Jersey

A Main Street studio and gallery in Hackettstown with multi-week wheel courses, weekend one-time sessions, an after-school handbuilding club for kids and a range of monthly memberships.

ClassesMembershipsKiln firingWorkshopsKids classes

Yaro

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

A Greenpoint ceramics studio offering semester classes, single wheel sessions, children's after-school programs and 24-hour shelf memberships.

ClassesMembershipsWorkshopsKids classesPrivate events

Yonkers Pottery

Yonkers, Westchester

A McLean Avenue studio teaching all-level wheel throwing and handbuilding to adults in six-week terms.

ClassesKiln firing

Zerimar Clay

Manhattan

A West 51st Street studio focused on colored clay, listed with single-session and multi-week wheel courses for adults. Pottery NYC students pick up fired work here.

Classes

e.e. ceramic studio

Brooklyn

A Broadway studio offering group classes, 24-hour membership tiers and drop-in time, with paid kiln rental and firing for non-members.

ClassesMembershipsOpen studioKiln firing

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Mastic Beach, Long Island

A Mastic Beach pottery business giving one-on-one wheel, handbuilding and glaze lessons to children and adults, with sessions for groups. It has ended public firing.

ClassesKids classesPrivate events
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