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Pottery

Three hours at the clay table, a wedged lump of clay in front of you and a teacher sitting beside you. Tuesdays and Saturdays. Tools and the house glazes are here; clay is sold at the studio.

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Watercolor of the pottery studio at Riverhouse Create

Three hours in the clay studio

Pottery Open Studio with Instruction runs twice a week. Tuesdays you work with Sherri Scott from Monroeville. Saturdays you work with Julie Day, a potter and painter from Mobile who taught art education for years. Hand-building and slab-building are welcome. Tools and the house glazes are already in the room. Clay is available at the studio for $30 per 25-pound block and is purchased separately.

On Saturdays, Children's Pottery begins an hour before Open Studio. Anyone under nine needs a parent to stay with them.

Clay keeps its own schedule, so nothing you make goes home the same day. Pottery usually takes three visits. First you make your piece; it dries on the shelf and is bisque-fired in the studio's own kiln, a few steps from the table you shaped it on. On your second visit you finish it with underglaze, glaze or iron oxide before its final firing. On your third visit you collect it.

Next times you can come

Pick a date to see the time, who is teaching, and how to book it.

22SepPottery Open Studio with InstructionTuesday · 1:00 PM–4:00 PM · 3 hours · Sherri ScottPlaces openSee this class →22SepPottery Open Studio with InstructionTuesday · 6:00 PM–9:00 PM · 3 hours · Sherri ScottPlaces openSee this class →26SepChildren's PotterySaturday · 10:00 AM–11:00 AM · 1 hour · Julie DayPlaces openSee this class →26SepPottery Open Studio with InstructionSaturday · 11:00 AM–2:00 PM · 3 hours · Julie DayPlaces openSee this class →

Every one of these costs one class credit. Single Class Credit — $80. Member Four-Class Pack — $120. See the whole schedule.

From the clay studio

Work made in these sessions, and the people making it.

Two potters shaping a tall pot together at the studio table.
Two people working together, four hands on the wet clay.
A potter painting glaze onto a finished bowl by the window.
A potter with the clay centered under both hands and the studio shelves behind.
A glazed pitcher and two bowls, just out of the kiln.
A potter carrying the finished ruffled bowl across the studio.

Who teaches pottery

Potters who teach here through the year, at the table beside you rather than at the front. The schedule names the teacher for every date.

  • Julie DayJulie Day
  • Sherri ScottSherri Scott
  • Zach SierkeZach Sierke
  • Megan ShiffletMegan Shifflet
  • Lynn DavisLynn Davis