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    Northern Clay Center

    4.1 (18 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    The paint makes it look more like art but seriously these two took me 3 hours and I probably got a total of 8 minutes MAYBE.
    Mikey A.

    I took 1, 3 hour class and signed up for it after being recommended by a contact from the northern clay center as a good class for beginners. There were only 8 people in the entire class and me and my two friends arrived five minutes late because of traffic on the way over. We quickly sat down while others had already began their pottery and clearly had worked with the wheel before because they all made atleast 4-5 pieces while my friends and I made 2/3 pieces that I would hardly even call art. It was disappointing because the instructor spent atleast a third of their time cutting clay which obviously could have been done before the class started and because of that I felt as though no one was being helped. For 40 bucks it should have been marketed as an open wheel class, not recommended to people that have never touched the wheel.

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    The pottery is grouped by artist, which made it easy to limit my browsing to only the styles I liked.

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