All upcoming pottery workshops and courses in Chicago

Every session currently open for booking at our Berteau Avenue studio and at our outdoor Pottery in the Park events.

  • Glazing Workshop

    Next: · 52 dates · from $25

    Complete your pottery pieces by adding beautiful glazing. During glazing workshops, you can glaze up to 3 pieces you made during any workshop (wheel or handbuilding). Glazing works

  • The Perfect Mug

    Next: · 52 dates · from $60

    The Perfect Mug allows students to customize a premade ceramic mug with glazes. Adding a quick and easy way to customize pottery! Transform a premade ceramic coffee mug into your p

  • Custom Glazed Table Vase

    Next: · 52 dates · from $80

    A table vase is mostly about the surface, which makes it a satisfying thing to glaze. The form is already made and bisque-fired when you arrive, so the whole session goes into colo

  • Custom Glazed Yarn Bowl

    Next: · 52 dates · from $80

    A yarn bowl keeps a working ball of yarn from rolling across the floor — the curled slot in the side feeds the strand out as you knit. Ours are already thrown and bisque-fired, so

  • Candle Making Workshop

    Next: · 52 dates · from $60

    Create your own custom ceramic candle in a fun, hands-on session! Each candle comes in a premade ceramic vessel with a fitted wooden lid that you will customize with acrylic paints

  • Pottery Wheel Workshop

    Next: · 22 dates · from $45

    This beginner-friendly pottery wheel workshop is perfect for anyone curious to try ceramics for the first time. During the 90-minute session, you'll jump right into hands-on practi

  • Intro to Handbuilding

    Next: · 10 dates · from $45

    Handbuilding is pottery without the wheel — you shape clay with your hands, a few simple tools, and a lot less pressure. Over two hours you'll work through the three techniques eve

  • Ceramic Sip Mugs

    Next: · 10 dates · from $45

    Everyone leaves this one with a mug — a proper one, with a sip top and a handle you shaped to your own grip. We build it by hand rather than on the wheel, so there's no learning cu

  • Custom Ceramic Magnets

    Next: · 10 dates · from $60

    Create beautiful custom ceramic magnets in this hands-on handbuilding workshop! You'll have 2 hours to make and glaze a bundle of magnets—most people make around 5—perfect for deco

  • Custom Chip & Dip Plates

    Next: · 10 dates · from $55

    One plate, two jobs: a wide shallow well for chips and a smaller raised cup for the dip, joined so nothing slides around when the bowl gets passed. You'll roll and cut the slab, sh

  • Custom Book Ends Handbuilding Workshop

    Next: · 10 dates · from $65

    Create a custom ceramic bookend in this two-part handbuilding workshop! This workshop includes both the building and glazing sessions—glazing is required and included in the price.

  • Custom Handbuilt Ash Tray

    Next: · 10 dates · from $45

    Create your own custom handbuilt ceramic ash tray in this hands-on workshop! Learn handbuilding techniques to shape, texture, and personalize your piece. All materials and tools pr

  • Charcuterie Board Handbuilding Workshop

    Next: · 2 dates · from $80

    Create a ceramic charcuterie board in this hands-on handbuilding workshop! Perfect for serving, entertaining, or adding a handmade touch to your home. Learn handbuilding techniques

  • September 6-Week Pottery Course — Tuesdays

    Next: · 5 dates · from $210

    Six Tuesday evenings to actually learn the wheel, rather than try it once. Weeks one and two are centering and pulling walls — the two things that make everything afterwards possib

  • September 6-Week Pottery Course — Wednesdays

    Next: · 5 dates · from $210

    The same six-week wheel course as our Tuesday group, run on Wednesday evenings for people whose week doesn't bend that way. You start with centering and pulling walls, then spend w

  • Household Handbuilding Course — Thursdays

    Next: · 4 dates · from $185

    Household September is a 5-week handbuilding course for functional home pottery — no wheel required. Thursdays at 6:30 PM in September 2026. Chip & dip plate, spoon rest, lemon jui