Schedule a Fun-Filled Private Party at District Clay!
Private one on one (or two...) instruction also available.
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A Handbuilding Party is for those who want to build, design and create a finished piece of pottery. 
A Wheel Throwing Party is a fun filled (and challenging) adventure in working on the pottery wheel. 

Fair warning:  attending a pottery party may lead to a life-long avocation.

We offer these parties on weekday afternoons, Monday & Thursday mornings and Saturday nights.  We typically need around 4 weeks advance notice to schedule a party.

Parties organized by current District Clay students and artists qualify for a 10% reduction in price.

All members of your party will have their own individual socially distant wheel or handbuilding spaces.  
For more about our COVID-19 preparations, go here. ​

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Private Handbuilding Party

Our Handbuilding Parties are both fun and instructive.  We design these parties so that each person goes on their own creative adventure. 

You can also schedule a one on one private lesson with one of our teachers.  

During this hand-building event, each person will go on their own creative adventure.  They will start with slabs of leather hard clay and by the end of the session, they will each have designed, decorated and painted a shallow bowl. 

In the process, they will learn basic handbuilding including using a variety of clay tools for decorating and texturing.   

Finally, they will paint their piece using colors of their choice. District Clay will bisque fire each piece, give them a final clear glaze and glaze fire it.  The final work will be ready for pick-up four to six weeks after the event. 

Participants will be working at socially distanced private work areas.  For more about District Clay's COVID-19 preparations, including entry requirements, go here.

To schedule a Private Handbuilding Party, please fill out this quick questionnaire.  

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Basic Info:

Cost:  $70 per person for 6 to 8 participants for a 2.5 hour class.  All ages.   Smaller size class rates are higher:

2.5 hour class:
6 to 18 people:  $70 each

2 hour class:
1 person:  $185 each
2 people:  $90 each
3 people:  $85 each
4 people:  $80 each
5 people:  $75 each

Note:  Parties organized by current District Clay students and artists qualify for a 10% reduction in price.

When:  We offer these parties on weekday afternoons, Monday & Thursday mornings and Saturday nights.  We typically need around 4 weeks advance notice to schedule a party.​

What it includes:  2 to 2.5 hours* hours of fun creating a piece out of clay.   Instruction by a DCC teacher, clay, underglaze and glazes, tools and bisque and glaze firing provided.  Also a full studio tour including our gallery, work rooms and kiln areas. Each person will have their own partitioned private wheel space.  For more about our COVID-19 preparations, go here. 

​Each person will take home one handbuilt piece.  Beer, water and some crackers also included.   

What we need:  We need a 50% deposit to hold your event with any remaining amounts due at the beginning of the event.  

What to bring:  You should wear comforable clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.  Long hair should be tied back.   If you wish, feel free to bring a small towel or apron.

Important:  We can refund 100% of the deposit if you give us at least 48 hours notice that you cannot make a date.  Under 48 hours notice, we can only be able to refund 50% of your deposit. 

​Also, let us know if the number in your party changes. Because these events require set up time, any changes have to be received 24 hours before the event starts so that you can avoid being charged for people that don't attend. 

​*1-5 attendees:  2 hours; 6-8 attendees:  2.5 hours.

Private Wheel Throwing Party

Celebrate a birthday, anniversary, holiday or friends getting together to try their hands dirty at the pottery wheel.  These are fun, laugh-filled and muddy events for members of your party.

You can also schedule a one on one private lesson on the wheel with one of our teachers.  

Working on the pottery wheel is fun . . . and challenging.  It requires eye to hand coordination, careful placement of your hands and firm control over a rapidly spinning wheel.  Don't expect to make a perfect pot.  But you will be thrilled when you cause a cylinder to rise out of a solid lump of clay using your own two hands. ​

But you will be thrilled when you cause a cylinder to rise out of a solid lump of clay using your own two hands.  A rare few may even experience FLOW.   

Because you will be working with wet clay, there is nothing to take home except fun memories.  We can bisque and glaze fire work for an extra fee (see below).

Participants will be working at socially distanced partitioned wheels.  For more about District Clay's COVID-19 preparations, including entry requirements, go here.

To schedule a Private Wheel Party or One on One Class, please fill out this quick questionnaire.  

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Basic Info:

Cost:  $70 per person for 6 to 18 participants for a 2.5 hour class.  Rates for smaller class sizes are higher (see below). Ten years old and above. 

​If desired, District Clay will bisque fire, glaze and glaze fire one piece from each participant for $10 per piece. 

2.5 hour class:
6 to 18 people:  $70 each

2 hour class:
1 person:  $185 each
2 people:  $90 each
3 people:  $85 each
4 people:  $80 each
5 people:  $75 each

​Note:  Parties organized by current District Clay students and artists qualify for a 10% reduction in price.

​When:  We offer these parties on weekday afternoons, Monday & Thursday mornings and Saturday nights.  We typically need around 4 weeks advance notice to schedule a party.​

What it includes:  2  to 2 1/2 hours (depending on the number of attendees*) of fun on the pottery wheel.  Instruction by a DCC teacher, clay and tools provided.  Also a full studio tour including our gallery, wheel room and kiln areas.  Each person will have their own partitioned private wheel space.  For more about our COVID-19 preparations, go here.  Beer, water and some crackers also included.   

What we need:  We need a 50% deposit to hold your event with any remaining amounts due at the beginning of the event.  

​What to bring:  You should wear comforable clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.  Long hair should be tied back.   If you wish, feel free to bring a small towel or apron.

Important:  We can refund 100% of the deposit if you give us at least 48 hours notice that you cannot make a date.  Under 48 hours notice, we can only be able to refund 50% of your deposit. 

​Also, let us know if the number in your party changes. Because these events require set up time, any changes have to be received 24 hours before the event starts so that you can avoid being charged for people that don't attend. 

*1-5 attendees:  2 hours; 6-18 attendees:  2.5 hours.

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If you have any questions, please contact our Private Party Manager, Jon Kerr, at stonewarejon(at)gmail.com.