Pottery Classes and Studio Membership in Denver's RiNo District

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Come make pottery in RiNo

Wheel throwing classes, one-night workshops, and studio membership in Denver’s RiNo Arts District. Beginners welcome — small groups, friendly teachers, a community that shows up to make.

Classes & Workshops

Get on the wheel or build by hand — beginners welcome

Your shelf + keycode

Members get a shelf and keycode access.

Tools / Clay

Pro tools, clay, and glaze when you're ready to go deeper

Grand Opening Welcome

Your shelf in the arts district

Glaze firing free through December 31, 2026.

Pottery is fired twice. Bisque (first fire) hardens the clay. Glaze (second fire) finishes the surface. Bisque is always free for members. Glaze is free too through the end of 2026.

Your own shelf, 24/7 keycode, and 22 Shimpo wheels.

Starting 2027: bisque stays free. Glaze includes 500 cubic inches free each month (about 10 pieces), then $0.04 per cubic inch.

Join membership — $140/month

Classes and workshops

One-time classes, plus 4- and 6-week courses

Clay, tools, glazes, and all firing included.

Come check out our new pottery studio

In RiNo, Denver, at 34th & Walnut — 6,000 sq. ft. to create, make, and learn!

Claya's open roll-up garage door seen from the sidewalk, with the CLAYA A-frame chalkboard sign, a couch and worktables just inside the studio.
Inside Claya: the open studio floor with rows of pottery wheels, worktables, wire drying racks, aprons on the wall and a couch in the foreground under a high white ceiling.

We'd love to see you!

  • Top-down view of a potter centering clay on the wheel at CLAYA's Denver studio

    Pottery Studio Membership

    Members get a shelf and keycode access.

    Grand Opening Welcome: all glaze firing free through Dec 31, 2026. Then 500 cu-in free/mo (~10 pieces), $0.04 after. Extended Founding $140/month.

    Membership 
  • Hands shaping a tall vessel on the pottery wheel at CLAYA during pottery class in Denver

    Pottery Classes

    Four- and six-week classes on the wheel or by hand, plus one-night workshops when you want a single evening in clay. Small groups, patient teachers, fired work to take home.

    Classes 
  • Assorted pottery tools arranged in studio cups at CLAYA’s Denver location

    Clay & Tools

    5 different clay bodies for the studio. Buy in-studio when you're ready for the next bag.

    Clay & Tools 

Class calendar

Tap a day, then book. Dots: class series · one-night · First Friday.

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