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Welcome to our studio! Located in downtown Red Bank, NJ, our small, intimate studio offers personalized instruction in wheel throwing and hand building. We value community and creative expression in a judgment-free environment where everyone is welcome. Join Us! |
Class Descriptions:
All Levels Ceramics: 6-week class. You’ll learn basic Hand-building techniques, surface decoration, and glazing. We will explore form and process, and begin to refine your skills so you can make finished pieces that shine!
Intermediate Handbuilding: 6-week class. This class takes place concurrently with Beginner Wheel Throwing on Tuesday evening. Therefore, it requires you to be fairly independent with handbuilding. No beginning instruction will be given; however, the teacher is more than happy to answer questions, make suggestions, and refine technique. Please take a beginner class if you are new to clay.
25 lbs of clay included. Only two spots are available for this.
Pottery Date/Friends Night: 2-3 Hour session in Handbuilding or Wheel throwing. Bring your date, friend, spouse, or make it a group experience! You'll each get to make a piece from scratch, return for any trimming or refining, and then once more to glaze your work. We can accommodate up to 4 people on the wheel or 6 for Hand Building. Bring snacks and beverages and make it a party. Great for special occasions and events!
Private Lessons: Choose to focus on hand-building or the potter's wheel. Get personalized instruction on centering, throwing technique, trimming, form, surface decoration, and glazing. Private lessons are the BEST way to learn the wheel!
Gift Certificates: Give someone you love permission to create! You choose a full class, an experience, or a private lesson. No doubt you know someone who would never give themselves what they really want...time and space for play with clay.
Intermediate Handbuilding: 6-week class. This class takes place concurrently with Beginner Wheel Throwing on Tuesday evening. Therefore, it requires you to be fairly independent with handbuilding. No beginning instruction will be given; however, the teacher is more than happy to answer questions, make suggestions, and refine technique. Please take a beginner class if you are new to clay.
25 lbs of clay included. Only two spots are available for this.
Pottery Date/Friends Night: 2-3 Hour session in Handbuilding or Wheel throwing. Bring your date, friend, spouse, or make it a group experience! You'll each get to make a piece from scratch, return for any trimming or refining, and then once more to glaze your work. We can accommodate up to 4 people on the wheel or 6 for Hand Building. Bring snacks and beverages and make it a party. Great for special occasions and events!
Private Lessons: Choose to focus on hand-building or the potter's wheel. Get personalized instruction on centering, throwing technique, trimming, form, surface decoration, and glazing. Private lessons are the BEST way to learn the wheel!
Gift Certificates: Give someone you love permission to create! You choose a full class, an experience, or a private lesson. No doubt you know someone who would never give themselves what they really want...time and space for play with clay.
Your Instructors:
Jane Kleiman (@jkceramicsnj)
Jane has been working with clay for over 20 years. She received her BFA in Photography from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1986. After her early career in Graphic Art, she pursued Massage Therapy and Yoga Instruction, eventually finding her way back to her roots in Art. She brings a grounded approach to working with clay, drawing on her years of experience in self-discovery to inform her teaching. You will not only learn to build and sculpt with clay, but you may also discover something about yourself. Jane is the proud parent of two amazing kids, one with Severe Autism, so she understands just how important it is to find something that takes you out of the stress of everyday life and into the flow of the present moment. Her classes are fun and relaxing.
Jane has been working with clay for over 20 years. She received her BFA in Photography from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1986. After her early career in Graphic Art, she pursued Massage Therapy and Yoga Instruction, eventually finding her way back to her roots in Art. She brings a grounded approach to working with clay, drawing on her years of experience in self-discovery to inform her teaching. You will not only learn to build and sculpt with clay, but you may also discover something about yourself. Jane is the proud parent of two amazing kids, one with Severe Autism, so she understands just how important it is to find something that takes you out of the stress of everyday life and into the flow of the present moment. Her classes are fun and relaxing.
Margery Cohen (@margery222)
Margery has been working in ceramics for almost 20 years. Her background is with multidisciplinary arts. She specializes in intricately carved stoneware and porcelain sculpture. She lives in Middletown with her cat Grape.
Margery has been working in ceramics for almost 20 years. Her background is with multidisciplinary arts. She specializes in intricately carved stoneware and porcelain sculpture. She lives in Middletown with her cat Grape.
Kadi Cook @kadimarycook
Kadi is a lifelong creative who approaches every material through a lens of possibility. While finishing her BA in Creative Writing and poetry at The Colorado College, she discovered ceramics during a month-long immersion and was instantly hooked. She then moved to Portland, where she dove deep into clay at the Oregon College of Art and Craft—learning gas, soda, and wood firing, mixing glazes, pugging clay, and developing her ideas within a supportive studio community. Kadi moved to NJ in 2008 and currently teaches academics at Voyagers’ Community School. Whether you are a novice, returning to clay, or want to push boundaries, Kadi is excited to be part of your clay journey!
Kadi is a lifelong creative who approaches every material through a lens of possibility. While finishing her BA in Creative Writing and poetry at The Colorado College, she discovered ceramics during a month-long immersion and was instantly hooked. She then moved to Portland, where she dove deep into clay at the Oregon College of Art and Craft—learning gas, soda, and wood firing, mixing glazes, pugging clay, and developing her ideas within a supportive studio community. Kadi moved to NJ in 2008 and currently teaches academics at Voyagers’ Community School. Whether you are a novice, returning to clay, or want to push boundaries, Kadi is excited to be part of your clay journey!
Vicki Stoeckel (@vickidesigns)
Vicki has loved getting her hands dirty since she was a child, making sand castles and planting gardens with her mom. After receiving her BFA in Ceramics and Painting from the University of South Florida, she began a diverse, successful 20+ year career in engineering & networking and spent a few years working and traveling in Europe. She now has a home studio in Atlantic Highlands, NJ where she lives with her husband and daughter. Vicki loves teaching and sharing the magical process of working with your hands and clay. She finds this gives her students a sense of calm, a much needed escape from the everyday stresses of life, and reconnects them to their playful, experimental, selves. Vicki believes that anyone can make art and loves teaching others how to transform a lump of clay into a simple bowl or a beautiful sculpture.. Let’s play with some clay!
Vicki has loved getting her hands dirty since she was a child, making sand castles and planting gardens with her mom. After receiving her BFA in Ceramics and Painting from the University of South Florida, she began a diverse, successful 20+ year career in engineering & networking and spent a few years working and traveling in Europe. She now has a home studio in Atlantic Highlands, NJ where she lives with her husband and daughter. Vicki loves teaching and sharing the magical process of working with your hands and clay. She finds this gives her students a sense of calm, a much needed escape from the everyday stresses of life, and reconnects them to their playful, experimental, selves. Vicki believes that anyone can make art and loves teaching others how to transform a lump of clay into a simple bowl or a beautiful sculpture.. Let’s play with some clay!
Sophia McEvoy (@sophiamcevoyart)
Sophia is a ceramic artist from Monmouth County, New Jersey. She acquired her BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in ceramics from Kean University. With a playful and curious approach, Sophia blends humor and beauty, using clay to explore the strange charm of coastal life. She approaches teaching with patience and enthusiasm, encouraging students to embrace mistakes, test boundaries, and find joy in the tactile process of working with clay.
Sophia is a ceramic artist from Monmouth County, New Jersey. She acquired her BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in ceramics from Kean University. With a playful and curious approach, Sophia blends humor and beauty, using clay to explore the strange charm of coastal life. She approaches teaching with patience and enthusiasm, encouraging students to embrace mistakes, test boundaries, and find joy in the tactile process of working with clay.
Class location:
43R Broad St., Red Bank (Access is through the parking lot on Wallace St., directly across from Neapoli Restaurant on Wallace St. Our doorway is in the center of the parking lot)
All classes include 25lbs of clay (except kids classes) and firing (up to 12")
43R Broad St., Red Bank (Access is through the parking lot on Wallace St., directly across from Neapoli Restaurant on Wallace St. Our doorway is in the center of the parking lot)
All classes include 25lbs of clay (except kids classes) and firing (up to 12")