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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.