New Wheel and Handbuilding Class are Starting!
This classes will start once they reach five students in each class.
- New Wheel: Monday nights, 8:30-11 pm; Friday morning, 10-12:30 pm, Friday night, 8 - 10:30 pm
- New Handbuilding: Sunday, 12:30-3 pm.
This classes will start once they reach five students in each class.
NEW: Our Clay for Home Program
Try out our new Clay for Home program. This program is for people who prefer to work on clay projects from home and want access to District Clay's glazes and kilns.
It's simple: you purchase 25 lbs of clay and we send you an instruction sheet on how to set up a home studio as well as links to helpful You Tube videos on creating fun clay projects. Your home becomes your new Creativity Incubator.
When you're ready, you drop off work at District Clay to be bisque and glaze fired. You can also come in and use District Clay glazes (or you can use appropriate commercial glazes.)
Find out more here.
Try out our new Clay for Home program. This program is for people who prefer to work on clay projects from home and want access to District Clay's glazes and kilns.
It's simple: you purchase 25 lbs of clay and we send you an instruction sheet on how to set up a home studio as well as links to helpful You Tube videos on creating fun clay projects. Your home becomes your new Creativity Incubator.
When you're ready, you drop off work at District Clay to be bisque and glaze fired. You can also come in and use District Clay glazes (or you can use appropriate commercial glazes.)
Find out more here.
Jon Kerr becomes the DCC Studio Manager!
We are very very pleased to let you know that Jon Kerr is the new District Clay Studio Manager!
Jon has poured his heart and soul into District Clay, both as a teacher and as the de facto studio manager. With our new resident artists coming in, this was an excellent time recognize Jon's amazing care, abilities and his continuing non-stop contributions by creating this new position. As Studio Manager, Jon will now be officially responsible for the day to day management of the physical center.
Congratulations to Jon and thanks for all you have done!
We are very very pleased to let you know that Jon Kerr is the new District Clay Studio Manager!
Jon has poured his heart and soul into District Clay, both as a teacher and as the de facto studio manager. With our new resident artists coming in, this was an excellent time recognize Jon's amazing care, abilities and his continuing non-stop contributions by creating this new position. As Studio Manager, Jon will now be officially responsible for the day to day management of the physical center.
Congratulations to Jon and thanks for all you have done!
One Shots are Back!
Brand new to clay and want to take one of our potter's wheels out for a test ride?
Try a One Shot! class on Sunday nights from 5:30-8 pm.
Brand new to clay and want to take one of our potter's wheels out for a test ride?
Try a One Shot! class on Sunday nights from 5:30-8 pm.
Rent a District Clay Kiln!
We have heard from alot of people that they have no place to fire their work. District Clay is now making its kilns (both electric and gas) available for outside rentals. It's easy - you drop off your work, we fire it, you pick it up.
If you want, you can use District Clay glazes for an additional charge.
To find out more about renting a kiln at District Clay, go here.
We have heard from alot of people that they have no place to fire their work. District Clay is now making its kilns (both electric and gas) available for outside rentals. It's easy - you drop off your work, we fire it, you pick it up.
If you want, you can use District Clay glazes for an additional charge.
To find out more about renting a kiln at District Clay, go here.
District Clay: A Safe Place To Play With Clay
We've worked hard to make District Clay a safe place to play with clay. That includes socially distanced wheels and work stations, stringent entrance and cleaning/disinfecting protocals and HEPA (99.97%) filtration (one of our units is pictured) in our wheel rooms.
To see all the steps we have taken to make District Clay a safe and secure place to play with clay, please go here.
We've worked hard to make District Clay a safe place to play with clay. That includes socially distanced wheels and work stations, stringent entrance and cleaning/disinfecting protocals and HEPA (99.97%) filtration (one of our units is pictured) in our wheel rooms.
To see all the steps we have taken to make District Clay a safe and secure place to play with clay, please go here.
Like to Check out District Clay?
We are now offering 30 minute private tours during weekdays and weekends.
Come and see the largest clay studio in the DC area, see our kilns and wheel rooms and hear about all the ways we are making District Clay a safe place to play with clay.
Sign up for a private tour here.
We are now offering 30 minute private tours during weekdays and weekends.
Come and see the largest clay studio in the DC area, see our kilns and wheel rooms and hear about all the ways we are making District Clay a safe place to play with clay.
Sign up for a private tour here.
Comments from Our Returning Students
About DCC's Safety Steps
As a healthcare professional and as a person on the front line who has cared for COVID19 patients, I can say with confidence that the steps District Clay has taken to ensure the safety of our students and instructors make me feel safe. The universal use of face masks, temperature taking, hand washing, and social distancing in large well-ventilated spaces are all in line with local and federal agencies.  HEPA filtered air in the wheel rooms goes one step further. They have taken extra care to provide a safe experience by reducing class sizes, building personal glaze stations, and creating an easy to follow disinfection protocol for wheels and tools to make sure that everyone is protected during the against COVID-19. Cole Norton, Certified Nursing Assistant
Kudos to DCC for doing everything and more to ensure we are safe and fully protected during this tough time. It starts with taking our temperature, washing our hands, and masks for all, using tools washed in disinfectant solution. Every surface and tool is disinfected. The wheels are separated by physical divisions creating self contained places to wedge, throw, trim, use wax and underglaze. Everyone is masked and six feet apart. I feel very comfortable, I have been going for two weeks and will continue. I am strict and maintain myself on lockdown because I see my 93 year old mother once a week (masked ad six feet) and I don’t believe DCC as it’s set up, compromises these visits. Thank you District Clay. Maria Otero
- - - Over 30 returning students wrote comments about our safety measures. To read them, go here.
Kudos to DCC for doing everything and more to ensure we are safe and fully protected during this tough time. It starts with taking our temperature, washing our hands, and masks for all, using tools washed in disinfectant solution. Every surface and tool is disinfected. The wheels are separated by physical divisions creating self contained places to wedge, throw, trim, use wax and underglaze. Everyone is masked and six feet apart. I feel very comfortable, I have been going for two weeks and will continue. I am strict and maintain myself on lockdown because I see my 93 year old mother once a week (masked ad six feet) and I don’t believe DCC as it’s set up, compromises these visits. Thank you District Clay. Maria Otero
- - - Over 30 returning students wrote comments about our safety measures. To read them, go here.
District Clay Student Restart Survey Results
Thanks to the 171 DCC students who filled out our July Restart Survey. The information is helping us move ahead in as safe a manner as we can.
- Of students who have returned to take classes, 87% felt safe or very safe (62% very safe). Only one student did not feel safe.
Why Take a Pottery Class?
The Best Places to Take Ceramics Classes Across the US, Artsy, 6/2018 (District Clay made the list!)
94% of District Clay Students Give DCC a Good or Excellent rating, 1/2020
Local Company Changing the Pottery Scene, WUSA9 Feature on the District Clay Center: 8/18
District Clay Center Provides Holiday Shoppers with Pottery Bonanza, OnTap, 12/10/2019
Pottery is the new Pilates..., the New York Times, 11/2018
Creating Ceramics Can Help Combat Depression, Artsy, 9/2017
25 Reasons to Take a Pottery Class, Amaranth Stoneware, 7/2015
The Best Places to Take Ceramics Classes Across the US, Artsy, 6/2018 (District Clay made the list!)
94% of District Clay Students Give DCC a Good or Excellent rating, 1/2020
Local Company Changing the Pottery Scene, WUSA9 Feature on the District Clay Center: 8/18
District Clay Center Provides Holiday Shoppers with Pottery Bonanza, OnTap, 12/10/2019
Pottery is the new Pilates..., the New York Times, 11/2018
Creating Ceramics Can Help Combat Depression, Artsy, 9/2017
25 Reasons to Take a Pottery Class, Amaranth Stoneware, 7/2015
Where is the District Clay Center?
The District Clay Center is located at 2414 Douglas St NE in Washington DC on the first floor of the Off the Beaten Track Warehouse. We are minutes from Brookland, Union Market and Catholic U.
Our doors are on the left hand side of the building facing the street. Parking is available directly in front of the building.
Click here to contact us. Click here to join our mailing list.
The District Clay Center is located at 2414 Douglas St NE in Washington DC on the first floor of the Off the Beaten Track Warehouse. We are minutes from Brookland, Union Market and Catholic U.
Our doors are on the left hand side of the building facing the street. Parking is available directly in front of the building.
Click here to contact us. Click here to join our mailing list.
