A pottery studio in the heart of Marietta
Beginner-friendly wheel throwing, open studio memberships, and handmade stoneware fired a few steps from where you're standing. No experience needed — just a willingness to get clay under your fingernails.
Book a beginner classThree ways to get your hands in the clay
Whether it's your very first night at the wheel or your fiftieth, there's a bench here with your name on it.
Beginner Wheel Throwing
A six-week course that takes you from wobbling lumps to a set of mugs you'll actually use. Small groups of eight, all clay and glazes included, firing on us.
Open Studio Membership
Twenty-four wheels, four slab rollers, and shelf space of your own. Come throw at 7am before work or unwind on a Thursday night — the doors are open 82 hours a week.
Handmade Stoneware
Mugs, serving bowls, planters, and pour-overs thrown by our resident potters and glazed in our house recipes. Made here, sold here, built for the dishwasher.
Built in an old cabinet shop off Powder Springs Street
Cedar & Clay started when Nora Whitfield hauled a secondhand kick wheel into a 900-square-foot bay behind a shuttered cabinet shop and started teaching two friends on Sunday afternoons. Four years later the sawdust is gone, the kilns are in, and the cedar beams from the original building still run across the ceiling. We kept the name because it's the honest one: cedar overhead, clay underhand. Everything we teach, throw, and sell happens in this one room.
Why people keep coming back
A studio should feel like a workshop, not a showroom. Here's how we run ours.
Eight students, two instructors
You'll get real hands-on time at the wheel, not a demo you watch from the back row. Everyone leaves the first night with something they made.
Clay, glaze, and firing included
One price covers 25 pounds of stoneware, every glaze on the wall, and both firings. No surprise fees at the end of the session.
Two electric kilns, fired weekly
Bisque on Tuesdays, glaze on Fridays. You're never waiting three weeks to see how your pieces turned out.
Aprons, tools, and towels provided
Show up in clothes you don't love and we'll handle the rest. Lockers and a wash-up sink are by the back door.
Free reclaim clay for members
Wedge from the reclaim bin whenever you like. We pug it fresh every other week so it's always ready to throw.
Ten minutes from the Square
Easy parking right out front, and a coffee shop two doors down for the fifteen minutes while your pots set up.
From the shelves this month
The next beginner session starts soon
Six weeks, eight seats, everything included. Sessions fill about two weeks ahead, so grab a spot while there's one open.
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