Frequently Asked Questions About our Pottery Club

Our club differs from a school in that we don’t have a syllabus, a teacher, or a specific type of project planned for any given night. Members can still learn with our facilitators, but they’ll also be encouraged to try fun clay related crafts, participate in fun activities, and have opportunities to be part of club related field trips and adventures.

Members will be charged a membership fee automatically once per month. Membership fees are subject to change based on material costs, and additional expenses the studio my incur. For more information please read our terms & conditions page.

We want our members to have plenty of personal space to store tools, and projects they are working on. We’ll provide a dedicated shelf for each member where they can store tools and projects on.

Community shelving and storage space is only available for students of a pottery class. Members are asked to keep their tools, pots, and clay on their shelf, or shelf if choose additional access options.

We want our members to stress less about buying and using clay, and focus more on enjoying it.

Members can simply request more clay when they are out, allowing them to practice more, and explore clay in ways they wouldn’t in a normal school or community studio environment.

Our unlimited clay and free firings can be used to complete personal projects, gifts for friends and family, and learning exercises, but not for production.

Our unlimited clay and firings offer is not permitted for use by members to complete large volume clay projects intended for sale in galleries, for sale at art shows, as commissions for revenue generation, or for any other use deemed as sales and production based.

Production pottery work is not permitted at the Wheel & Slab pottery studio.

While the studio doesn’t allow production work to be produced, we know our members may need ways to move their pots.

Members can sell work casually at approved locations such as the Wheel & Slab studio gallery and the annual WNY Pottery festival.

For more information, please check our production policy.

Club memberships is primarily reserved for adults, ages 18 or older.

Exceptions can be made for teenagers younger than 18 years old, who express an interest in clay, and / or who are related to existing club members.

Yes, we do take a small deposit when you join the club. This deposit is part of our cancellation policy and will be returned to you if you provide 30 days notice of your plan to cancel your membership.

Your deposit is also used to hold a spot at the top of our waitlist, so you can pause your membership, take a break, and quickly rejoin the club when you are ready.

Read our cancelation policy for more details.

Canceling or pausing your membership to take a break is easy. Check our cancelation policy for more information.