Event Phone: 512-666-9003
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Hand Building Thursday-Class 1
August 1, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM -
Hand Building Thursday-Class 2
August 8, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM -
Hand Building Thursday-Class 3
August 15, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM -
Hand Building Thursday-Class 4
August 22, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Choose a full four-week class that covers the traditional skills of creating pottery by hand built methods. We’ll make some fun items for your home! Pinching, coil building, slab

building, slump/hump/press molds, and glazing are covered; taking a student from raw clay to finished functional vessels. Decorating and glazing will also be covered. The class fee includes instruction, clay, underglazes, glazing and all firings.
Level: Beginner and Intermediate
Instructor: Melanie Shaw
Registration and Refund Policies:
- Tuition is due in full at time of registration.
- Workshops with insufficient enrollment will be cancelled, participants will be moved to next session.
- Students are allowed one makeup class during scheduled Open Studio time, please contact instructor to arrange.
- Workshop registrants must be a minimum age of 12+.
- Art Off Center reserves the right, if necessary to cancel the workshop due to unforeseen circumstances. Participant workshop fees will be fully refunded.
- Art Off Center can not be held responsible for travel arrangements.