Classes + Workshops — Mac Clay Pottery

Classes

Duration: 6 weeks
Time: 180 Minutes
Price: $375

~ REGISTRATION FOR JANUARY CLASSES NOW OPEN ~
with a new Sunday afternoon handbuilding option

Our classes are guided explorations through wheel-throwing and hand-building, taught by an experienced teacher in our community. We welcome potters of all levels. Our studio is set up to teach technique and unlock creative channels, while deepening for historical contexts and forms. The classes are six weeks long and meet once a week for three hours. Two of those hours are guided by the teacher, with demos and hands on instruction, and the last hour is for practice and self-guided work. During your six week class, you can also book up to three hours a week for independent studio time.

Wheel Throwing: Beginner and Intermediate
With Cindy & Matthew $375 Per Person / Ages 18 and up
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Hand Building: The Art and The Craft
With Michelle $375 Per Person / Ages 18 and up
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Workshops

Duration: 1 Session
Time: 120 - 160 Minutes
Price: $30 -$75

Our workshops range from beginner-friendly wheel throwing sessions to in-depth explorations of traditional forms, with so much more between. Come make your own ceramic whistle, or create your alter ego in the form of a clay mask, make ceramic coasters, and more!

Held multiple times a week, these workshops are great touch-points for what we do at Mac Clay. We’ll meet you where you are. Workshops are 18+ or 13+ with a Guardian.

Intro to Wheel Throwing
With Matthew $65 Per Person LEARN MORE

Seasonal Candelabras
With Misha $75 Per Person LEARN MORE

Make Your Own Mask!
With Michelle $65 Per Person
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Make an Ocarina (Clay Whistle)
With Michelle $65 Per Person LEARN MORE

Community Tile Painting Project
With Mac Clay Free / All Ages
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Established 2025

Mac Clay is the first ceramic studio solely focused on classes, workshops and events in McMinnville. We believe in strengthening community by deepening all of our understandings of ceramic art — whether wheel throwing technique, pinch pots, Instagram trends or pre-historic forms. Wherever you are on your ceramic journey, we will meet you at the place where curiosity, passion and technique find form.

Think of Mac Clay as a town square for all things ceramic. Whether you’re taking a multiweek class at our Downtown location, attending a weekend masterclass, or reserving space in the studio for the day, we exist to help you access the magic of clay creation. Our mission is to serve both the beginner and advanced studio potter in a safe, vibrant environment.

But there’s more: we don’t only make beautiful things; we explore new dimensions of ourselves and how we relate to each other. Mac Clay is honored to enter a conversation with the Yamhill County area. So follow along as we kick off a series of events that introduce ourselves while recentering a craft that developed lock-step with humanity itself.

804 SE 1st Street
McMinnville, OR 97128