Pottery in Manhattan

The 92nd Street Y's School of the Arts ceramics program, with adult classes, teen and children's sessions and family workshops.

An arts center's intergenerational hand-building class for ages 7 to adult, with tuition assistance and an annual student show.

A large ceramics school with semester classes, one-time try-it nights and a waitlisted 24-hour membership, in Brooklyn and Tribeca. It also sells supplies and offers outside firing and kiln rentals.

A Tenth Avenue wheel-focused studio with weekly evening classes by level and a teacherless session for independent potters.

A second-floor Manhattan studio teaching wheel and handbuilding at all levels, with free open studio for enrolled students and a small waitlisted Studio Potter program.

A Midtown studio listed on the Kiln Fire pottery directory. Its own site refused automated fetching, so offerings are unconfirmed.

A 4,000-square-foot NoMad studio with memberships, eight-week semester classes, weekend try classes, workshops, co-working lounges and private events.

A First Avenue studio teaching weekly all-level clay classes, mainly on electric wheels, with paid bench time for registered students and private beginner groups.

A studio open daily with two-hour pottery and handbuilding workshops, date nights, kids' classes and group events, plus open studio and membership options.

A ceramics center in the Village with a second Chelsea studio, offering all-level classes, workshops, kids' wheel and family clay, an artist membership, a residency and a gallery.

A Market Street art cafe listed with two-hour wheel and handbuilding classes including clay and one fired piece, open wheel sessions for returning students, and candle-making.

A sizable Manhattan pottery school with all-level adult and kids' classes, seven-day practice time and in-studio or at-home memberships. Mud Matters in Hell's Kitchen is its sister studio.

An Amsterdam Avenue studio with adult and porcelain classes, kids' and teens' programs, monthly wheel intros, couples nights and parties.

A community center's pottery program with adult handbuilding and wheel classes and an independent members' studio with firing included.

The Upper West Side JCC's in-person ceramics studio, offering mixed-level wheel and beginner handbuilding classes, student studio time, and a monthly open studio pass for approved advanced potters.

A Tenth Avenue studio with multi-week wheel and handbuilding courses, two-hour workshops, private lessons and a membership for experienced potters. It is the sister studio of La Mano Pottery.

A Ninth Avenue studio known for an inexpensive clay sampler class, with work fired and picked up at nearby Zerimar Clay.

A multi-location class operator running two-hour beginner wheel and handbuilding sessions, children's classes and pottery parties in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

A Henry Street studio running small one-off classes in wheel throwing and themed handbuilding such as tea cups and bento boxes, with a membership program.

A lower-level East 50th Street studio with a tearoom, listed with wheel and handbuilding courses, Korean porcelain, kyusu teapot making, kids' and adult classes and open studio.

An Upper West Side studio and gift shop teaching handbuilding, wheel and glazing to adults, children and adult-child pairs, with practice hours for students. Visits are by reservation only.

A membership-and-class studio chain with New York branches in Gowanus, Chelsea, Greenpoint and the Upper East Side. Branches differ in firing: Gowanus fires cone 10 reduction and Chelsea is electric mid-range.

A Manhattan ceramics school offering one-day and multi-week classes alongside open studio, key-access and room-share memberships.

The ceramics program of Manhattan Youth's Downtown Community Center, with all-level semester sessions, one-day samplers and family clay days. Enrolled students get open studio hours.

A Washington Heights community pottery studio and retail gallery with adult, teen and kids' classes, try-wheel sessions, memberships and a woodfire intensive.

The West Side YMCA's ceramics program, with a broad weekly schedule of wheel and handbuilding classes from beginner to advanced, and open studio for class participants.

A West 51st Street studio focused on colored clay, listed with single-session and multi-week wheel courses for adults. Pottery NYC students pick up fired work here.