Our Recurring Classes
Click one of the calendar links below to check out class offerings and workshops or keep scrolling to learn more about our classes!
MAY - JULY, 2025
JULY - AUGUST, 2025
JUNE-AUGUST, 2025
Summer/Fall 2025
SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER, 2025
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER, 2025
Learn about our classes
SCULPTURE
Break down boundaries and form your imagination through clay in our sculpture class. This wonderful class does not require any experience with clay. Sculpting what you see in your minds eye through this medium only requires time, attention, intention, and patience to gently work with the clay to materialize your vision.
Sculpture classes are offered once a week on Saturday mornings with world renowned and award winning ceramicist Carlos Dowling.
Hand Building
Step back through time to reach toward the earliest form of shaping and using clay to craft abstract and utilitarian pieces. Learn about the wonderful minutiae of working over the clay by hand to form any number of items by pinching, coiling, rolling, joining, and decorating clay. Hand Building allows students to slow things down and learn about these characteristics of clay in an intimate manner.
Hand Building is an essential skill set in any potters tool kit and can be explored for a life time to create beautiful pieces of work.
Common Clay offers Hand Building through out the week in the morning and evening. Check out our calendars to learn more!
Wheel Throwing
Explore form, function, and fiction through a new medium and machine with wheel throwing. Turning clay on the wheel is a widely attractive, fun, and engaging experience with clay.
Common Clay offers beginner and intermediate classes with a few advanced classes throughout the year to help students explore more complex forms. The world and experience of clay is endless and we seek to truly give our students a strong understanding of the tools and techniques to explore that world.
Wheel Throwing is our most popular and consistent offering with classes at varying times and days of the week, check out our recurring class calendar to see what works for you!
Summer Camps
We are stoked to have a second summer of camps rolling out this year and offer two weeks of adult summer camp as well! Our camps this year will incorporate weekly projects that are engaging, fun, and provide memories and works of art that last a life time.
Workshops and Events
As our studio continues to expand we are also thrilled to offer special workshops and classes through out the year as we partner with the Blue Ridge Potters Guild and independent educators to provide more arts education to the Roanoke area. These workshops will range from special firings, specific forms, glaze education, and more. Keep an eye on our calendar and media to stay in the loop!
