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Hand building

Coil, slab, pinch and more: build mugs, plates, planters, vases and sculpture with your hands and a few simple tools. Each class opens with a demo and a prompt.

All levels, no wheel needed

Your hands and a few simple tools, from your first pinch pot to sculpture.

A demo and a prompt, then you build

Each class opens with a demo and a prompt, then you build with one-on-one help.

Open studio every week

Two and a half hours a week to practice on your own, and up to two makeup classes a semester.

What you'll learn

  • New to clay: coils for bowls and vases, slabs for plates and boxes, and how to finish and glaze them.
  • Been here before: bigger pieces, armatures, and an idea of your own built over the semester.

What's included

  • 25 lbs of clay
  • Glazes, oxides and slips
  • 2.5 hours of open studio a week
  • Up to 2 makeup classes
  • Payment plan, in two installments

Extra

  • Firing, 6 cents a cubic inch
  • More clay, by the bag
  • Tool kits, $25 for wheel, $30 for hand building or both
  • Unlimited off-peak open studio

Good to know

Commitment

  • Registering commits you to the full semester.
  • Once it starts there are no refunds or credits.
  • Gift cards apply at checkout only.

Refunds and transfers

  • 7 or more days before the first class: a refund, less a $75 fee.
  • Within 7 days: half back.
  • Within 48 hours: none.
  • Transfers need 7 days' notice too.

Missed classes

  • No refunds for a missed class; take a makeup instead, up to two a semester.
  • Open studio time is weekly and doesn't carry over.
  • To cancel, email info@yarostudios.com.

Which class

Learn it

Two hand-built clay gnomes, one reading a book, before firing

Hand building

Coils for bowls and vases, slabs for plates and boxes, darts for angles, and armatures for big pieces.

  • 12 weeks
  • All levels
  • $750
A glossy blue mug with a face: two eyes, a nose and red lips

Introduction to Hand Building

Six weeks of slabs, coils, darts and extrusions for new students and confident beginners, from mugs to planters.

  • 6 weeks
  • Beginners
  • $450

Go further

A marbled vase, its clay bodies swirled in bands of brown, blue and cream

Big Ideas in Clay

Bring an idea you've wanted to try and build it over the semester, with an extra hour of glaze time a week.

  • Intermediate
  • Not this semester

Do both

Schedule

Starting soon: 3 classes a week

Winter 2027

Jan 4 to Mar 28

Monday

1 class

  • Two hand-built clay gnomes, one reading a book, before firing
    7pmto 9:30pm

    Hand building

    with Monty J

    All levels12 weeks
    Enroll

In the studio

  • The studio's long work tables and wheels under tall windows
    The studio on Kent Street
  • A marbled vase, its clay bodies swirled in bands of brown, blue and cream
    Member work
  • Two hand-built clay gnomes, one reading a book, before firing
    Hand-built gnomes
  • Five Yaro members standing together outside the studio
    Members at the Pride Sale
  • A glossy blue mug with a face: two eyes, a nose and red lips
    Fresh from the kiln

Teachers

  • Alyssa in striped overalls over a printed T-shirt, in a studio in front of shelves of pots

    Alyssa Beza

    Wheel and hand building

    Makes sculptural lamps, abstract sculpture and wheel-thrown dinnerware.

  • A black and white photo of Christina holding a cup beside a table with a horse sculpture and two ornate stands

    Christina Howard

    Wheel and hand building

    Makes functional forms and figurative sculpture that draw on antiquity and spiritual symbols.

  • Charlie in a yellow jumpsuit with her arms up, grinning, a ball of yellow cloth on her head, at a studio table of clay and colored cloth

    Charlotte Canonne

    Wheel, hand building & kids

    Makes sculptural vases in soft, flowing forms, and has taught for a decade.

  • Monty in a fedora, an olive shirt and tie and checked trousers, a hand on a hip, among white plinths of planters and vases

    Monty J

    Hand building instructor

    A full-time ceramic artist since 2013, showing with The Future Perfect.

  • Siri in a striped dress tied with pink ribbons, looking to the side in a white gallery with small sculptures on the wall

    Siri Burt

    Wheel and hand building

    Hand builds large sculptural and mixed-media work, and throws bowls and cups to use every day.