Cedar overhead, clay underhand
Nora Whitfield learned to throw in a community center basement in Athens and spent nine years as a high school art teacher before she found the old cabinet shop off Powder Springs Street. She signed the lease with one kick wheel, a borrowed kiln, and a stubborn belief that Marietta needed a place where beginners weren't treated like tourists. The first class had three students; today the studio runs eleven sessions a season and keeps around forty open studio members. We've stayed small on purpose — small enough that we know what you're working on and whether it survived the kiln.
What we believe about clay
Pottery is one of the few hobbies where being bad at it is genuinely enjoyable. Clay collapses. Handles crack. A glaze you loved on the test tile comes out murky. We think that's the whole point — you can't rush it, you can't multitask through it, and two hours at a wheel is the closest thing to a reset button most of us get in a week. So we teach patiently, we keep the studio quiet enough to think in, and we never make anyone feel silly for asking how to center for the fifth time. Everything we sell was made by someone standing right here, and everything we teach, we still do ourselves.
Come see the place
Stop by during open studio hours, look at the shelves, and watch a few pots go up. No appointment, no pressure.
Find us in Marietta