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Pottery studios in Richmond, Virginia

Richmond's pottery scene runs through Carytown, the Fan District, Scott's Addition, Church Hill, and Manchester. Prices are friendly: drop-in classes from $40, six-week courses from $225-325. The community is craft-serious thanks to the Virginia Commonwealth University ceramics program, which is one of the strongest in the Southeast. Several studios are run by VCU graduates teaching rigorous multi-level wheel and hand-building curricula. Memberships with kiln access are widely available and affordable. Date-night and drop-in classes are common in Carytown and Scott's Addition. Kids programs run year-round at the community art centers. For longer study, the Fan and Manchester studios have the deepest multi-level progression and the strongest connections to the broader VCU ceramics community.

Showing 22 of 22 studios

Still Life Ceramics Studio RVA
1600 Altamont Ave, Richmond, VA 23230
4.9 (15 reviews)
- Wheel throwing
- Hand building
- Kids classes
- Membership
- Kiln access
Shockoe Bottom Clay
1714 E Main St, Richmond, VA 23223
4.9 (62 reviews)
- Hand building
Hand / Thrown Pottery Studio
123 W Brookland Park Blvd, Richmond, VA 23222
4.7 (36 reviews)
- Wheel throwing
- Hand building
- Kids classes
- Membership
- Beginner friendly
clay ground
1000 Carlisle Ave Ste 100c, Richmond, VA 23231
5.0 (26 reviews)
- Wheel throwing
- Hand building
- Date night
- Drop-in
- Membership
- +1
Rosewood Pottery Studio
2217 W Cary St, Richmond, VA 23220
4.2 (30 reviews)
43rd Street Studios
1410 W 43rd St, Richmond, VA 23225
5.0 (10 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Membership
All Fired Up Short Pump
2232 Old Brick Rd, Glen Allen, VA 23060
4.7 (118 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Date night
- Drop-in
- Membership
- Beginner friendly
- +1
CREATE Pottery Shop
4668 Commonwealth Centre Pkwy, Midlothian, VA 23112
4.5 (116 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Date night
- Drop-in
- Kiln access
Studio Two Three
109 W 15th St, Richmond, VA 23224
4.8 (179 reviews)
- Membership
- Beginner friendly
Visual Arts Center of Richmond
1812 W Main St, Richmond, VA 23220
4.7 (336 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Membership
- Kiln access
The Urban Kiln
11624 Timberton Ct, Glen Allen, VA 23060
5.0 (13 reviews)
- Kiln access
Crossroads Art Center
2016 Staples Mill Rd, Richmond, VA 23230
4.7 (91 reviews)
- Membership
Paint On Pottery
1430 High St, Williamsburg, VA 23185
4.7 (89 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Drop-in
- Kiln access
Starving Artist Studio
153 Herman Melville Ave, Newport News, VA 23606
4.9 (306 reviews)
- Drop-in
- Paint Your Own Pottery
Clayworks Supplies, Inc.
2277 Dabney Rd F, Richmond, VA 23230
4.8 (96 reviews)
- Wheel throwing
- Hand building
- Kiln access
Art Factory & Party Place / Art & Coffee
4810 Market Square Ln, Midlothian, VA 23112
4.9 (623 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Drop-in
- Membership
Sweet Art Emporium
13610 James Madison Hwy, Palmyra, VA 22963
4.9 (47 reviews)
- Membership
- Kiln access
Happy Palette
10450 Ridgefield Pkwy, Henrico, VA 23233
5.0 (10 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Drop-in
- Membership
River City Clay
1811 Huguenot Rd #408, Midlothian, VA 23113
5.0 (3 reviews)
- Wheel throwing
- Hand building
- Kids classes
- Date night
- Drop-in
- +3
Richmond Clay Center
541 Southlake Blvd, Richmond, VA 23236
5.0 (10 reviews)
- Membership
43rd Street Gallery
1412 W 43rd St, Richmond, VA 23225
4.8 (32 reviews)
- Kids classes
- Membership
City Clay LLC
700 Harris St #104, Charlottesville, VA 22903
4.8 (14 reviews)
- Wheel throwing
- Hand building
- Membership