NEW AFTER WORK ONE-TIME CLASS
Skip the post-work scroll and come make something with your hands instead.
BIG MUGS is a beginner-friendly handbuilding class focused on oversized mugs, expressive handles, texture, and functional forms in clay. A relaxed Tuesday evening creative reset in DTLA.
No wheel experience needed. Just clay, conversation, and big handmade mugs.
Tuesdays at 5:15PM at Throw Clay LA.
Small group format. Limited spots available. Book online, link in bio.
REFINE & EXPLORE
Throwing Big begins tonight. Vases & Bottles begins tomorrow night.
Both 6-week Refine & Explore courses are taught by Danny (@ellerystoneware ) and designed for students ready to continue developing on the potter’s wheel through larger forms, altered profiles, bellies, necks, and more intentional control of volume and proportion.
Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Danny began throwing in high school before studying ceramics at St. John’s University in Minnesota. He has been part of the Throw Clay LA teaching team since March 2022, teaching across all levels from beginner wheel classes to more advanced wheel development courses.
His own ceramic work explores scale, thinness, and the outer limits of what clay can do, while his studio practice through Ellery Stoneware includes custom dinnerware and ceramic collaborations for chefs and restaurants.
Students consistently mention Danny’s clarity, encouragement, and depth of knowledge in their 5-star reviews.
A few spots remain. Book online through link in bio.
This week’s member clinic:
Underglaze: Color, Timing & Brushwork
Sunday, May 17 1:00–2:00PM
This clinic will explore applying underglaze at different stages of the ceramic process, including timing, layering, brushing technique, and surface detail.
Peiwen will also briefly demonstrate underglaze pencil and how it can be used to create line work and playful effects on ceramic surfaces.
Free for Throw Clay LA members. Not a member yet? We'd love to show you around. Link in bio for more information.
Ready to begin?
Today marks the beginning of a new 6-week session at Throw Clay LA.
New students are stepping into the studio for the first time. Returning students are settling back into familiar class times, instructors, and routines.
To all the moms, artists, caregivers, and creative forces in our community, Happy Mother’s Day.
We’re grateful to spend part of the day creating together in DTLA.
Courses beginning this week include:
• Potter’s Wheel Basics
• Pinch, Slab, Sculpt!
• Sculpting with Coils
• Creatures & Critters
• Throwing Big
• Vases & Bottles
Some late registration spots remain in select courses through the week. Book online through the link in bio.
Art Without Barriers grant applications are due today.
There are creatures all over the studio right now.
Tiny figures on windowsills. Strange personalities near the kiln. Small sculptural forms quietly appearing around every corner.
Our 6-Week Creatures & Critters course explores character-driven handbuilding through sculptural building, texture, assembled forms, and surface detail. Animals, imagined beings, strange little companions, and experimental forms are all welcome.
Starts Tuesday, 5/12 at 6:00PM. This course requires prior handbuilding experience including Sculpting with Coils (Thursdays at 6:00PM, starts 5/14), Slab, Pinch, Sculpt! (Wednesdays at 6:00PM, starts 5/13), or equivalent experience working with clay.
Special thanks to members Tony, Dandi, Kat and Andrew, along with instructor Bailey, for sharing work featured in this post.
Courses begin this week in DTLA. View the full schedule through the link in bio.
A few final spots remain in upcoming 6-week courses.
Build Skills and Refine & Explore courses begin next week in DTLA.
Small group classes, weekly studio rhythm, and beginner-friendly instruction designed to help students build skills alongside a creative studio community.
Build Skills: Potter’s Wheel Basics, Pinch, Slab, Sculpt! and Sculpting with Coils.
Refine & Explore: Creatures & Critters, Vases & Bottles and Throwing Big.
View the full course schedule through the link in bio.
AWB Grant Applications due 5/10.
Welcome! Come join us..
Clay on the wheel. Questions across tables. Hands learning through process. Small moments that slowly turn into rhythm, familiarity, and community.
Whether you’re trying pottery for the first time or continuing to build skills, the studio fills with friendly people learning side by side each week.
New 6-week sessions begin Sunday in DTLA - a few spots left.
Link in bio, book online
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HANDBUILDING COURSES: functional pottery, sculptural work, texture, character, and experimentation built by hand. Bring it!
Start with foundational techniques in Pinch, Slab, Sculpt! and Sculpting with Coils, then continue developing through Design in Handbuilding and Creatures & Critters.
Functional work, sculptural pieces, texture, character, and experimentation all developing side by side in small weekly studio groups where students build both skills and community over time.
A new 6-week session begins Sunday at Throw Clay LA.
There’s still time to join us this session.
Downtown Los Angeles
Link in bio to register.
Looking for a Mother’s Day gift that feels a little more meaningful?
Give her something to experience, not just unwrap.
A pottery class at Throw Clay LA is time to slow down, try something new, and create something by hand. Whether you come together or gift her the experience, it’s a chance to step into the studio and make something that lasts.
One-time classes are beginner-friendly and designed to be relaxed, creative, and memorable.
Ready to gift something different this year?
Ready to try something new?
Start with a one-time class, then continue into a six-week course, followed by Refine & Explore.
Our classes run as small, consistent studio groups where people build skills side by side.
Next session starts Sunday.
Book now - link in bio..
Once you have the basics, this is where things open up.
Refine & Explore courses at Throw Clay LA focus on form, scale, and personal direction. These classes are about shaping with intention, solving problems in the clay, and developing your own voice.
This session:
• Vases & Bottles
• Throwing Big
• Creatures & Critters
Each course goes deeper into a specific idea. Less about trying everything, more about understanding something fully.
If you can make a cylinder or build a simple form, you’re ready.
Courses rotate each session.
Book online. Link in bio.
