Outlaw Pottery School

10-Week Session

Whether you have never touched clay or you took a pottery class a years ago, we start everyone off with a customized 10 week session when you become a student at Outlaw Pottery School.

If you are an Intermediate Potter, we will tailor the 10 week session to your experience level after showing you the tried and true Outlaw Pottery School wheel-throwing methods.

If you are a beginner with no experience, we will teach you how to transform balls of clay into bowls, cups and planters on the pottery wheel. Students will learn wedging, centering, pulling, trimming and dip glazing during this session. This class is also good for those who have tried pottery before but need a refresher course. Make no bones about it, throwing pots is challenging. But we make it fun, and our program is designed to give you personal attention because our classes are relatively small. We also mix you into an ongoing class with more experienced students who don’t need as much attention as beginners do. They also love to offer help to new students because they remember what it was like to be a beginner too.

The 10 week session is 10 consecutive calendar weeks. Each class is two hours long and occurs on the same day/time each week. If you miss a class, there are no make-up classes during your initial 10 week session. However, since your 10 week session is tailored to your skill level, if you miss a class you don’t fall behind. It’s not like taking a college class; more like taking a yoga class. You just pick up where you left off the previous week. That being said, you can not miss week 1 or 2 when you are learning the steps of wheel-throwing or weeks 9 or 10, which are your dip glazing weeks. Tuition and materials fees are non-refundable.

Once you “graduate” from the 10 week session, you may pay for classes on a monthly basis—paying for the month ahead by the last week of the current month. Each month we teach a special project to broaden your skills and inspire you artistically. Previous projects have included mugs, serving bowls, lidded casseroles and sugar jars, genie bottles, tea pots, face jugs, hand-built fish, leaf platters, decorative wall hangings, ornaments, vases, pitchers, flower pots, utensil holders, wine chillers, fairy houses, luminaries, candle holders, gingerbread houses, snowmen, Christmas trees, jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins, chimes, garden totems, garlic roasters, butter dishes, salt pigs, brie bakers, berry colanders, pet food bowls, spoon rests… the list goes on and on. We are always trying something new and creative.