Pottery in 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.