Beginner Class · Seminole Heights, Tampa

Intro to Wheel Throwing

2 hours at the wheel · make two handmade bowls · no experience needed. Just curiosity and a willingness to get a little muddy.

$65 / person

🎯 All levels — no experience needed

🏺 Make 2 bowls you'll keep

✨ Materials included — clay, glaze, firing

🍷 BYOB — bring a drink

📦 Pickup later, after firing

Reserve a spot

Small classes · led by Haley · 7110 N Florida Ave

Two women and a man are participating in a pottery class, shaping clay on pottery wheels indoors, with framed artwork on the wall behind them.

About the class

A relaxed, beginner-friendly introduction to wheel throwing in the heart of Tampa's Seminole Heights. You'll learn the fundamentals of centering clay, shaping forms, and creating two handmade bowls on the pottery wheel. No experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to get a little muddy. Haley guides you step by step, making the whole process approachable, creative, and genuinely fun. It's the perfect way to try pottery, unwind, and experience the charm of a working ceramics studio.

What you’ll do

You’ll learn how to center clay, pull walls, and shape simple forms on the wheel. Each student makes two bowls and paints them, which will be trimmed, fired, glazed, and finished by the studio.

★★★★★

"It was my first time making pottery, and Haley was an amazing teacher! I had so much fun and love my piece!"

— Shelby, Google

Two women learning pottery, one helping the other at a pottery wheel in a bright studio.
Two women smiling and holding colorful bowls in a room decorated with framed pictures, including a map of Tampa, Florida, and an alligator poster.
Person holding a paintbrush, dipping it into a blue bowl on a pottery wheel, with white clay surrounding the wheel.
Two women working together on a pottery wheel, shaping clay with their hands in a ceramics studio.

Reserve Your Spot

  • Working with clay involves natural variables and high‑temperature kiln firings. While we follow best practices at every stage, the firing process is unpredictable, and on rare occasions pieces may crack, warp or be damaged—even when proper techniques are used.

    Class fees cover the 2‑hour instructional experience, use of materials, studio time and firing attempts. While most work successfully makes it through the process, a finished piece is not guaranteed. For this reason, we do not offer refunds or credits for work lost or damaged during firing.

    Kiln issues are uncommon, but they are a known part of ceramics. By participating, students acknowledge this risk as part of the process.

    We’re always happy to explain what may have happened and share insights into the firing process, but the experience itself—not the final outcome—is what the class fee represents.