18+ Years of Age
Adult Winter 2025 class
registration is now closed.
For those of you who have registered, please be patient. The class instructors will reach out to you in the next couple weeks.
Our classes present the basics of creating pottery including forming ware and various methods of surface decoration. Throwing on the potter’s wheel is the predominate method of forming taught in the classes. Instruction on handbuilding methods can be included upon student request. Methods of decoration include glazing, underglazing, stamping and others.
Class sessions are offered on a quarterly basis. Important dates for the sessions follow below along with fees. Individuals who wish to register for a session have a choice of 4 evening classes. Maximum enrollment in sessions currently limited to 10 students per class. Minimum enrollment for presentation of a class is 6 students.
The request for registration procedure for all of our classes follows the 2025 class information given below.
2025 Classes
Winter Session (10 weeks)
Currently underway.
Spring Session (10 weeks)
Registration request opens at 12:00 noon on Friday, February 28th and closes at 12:00 noon on March 2nd.
Mondays: March 31 to June 9 (no class on Memorial Day holiday)
Tuesdays: April 1 to June 3
Wednesdays: April 2 to June 4
Fridays: April 4 to June 6
Summer Session (8 weeks)
Registration request opens at 12:00 noon on Friday, May 30th and closes at 12:00 noon on June 1st.
Mondays: July 7 to August 25
Tuesdays: July 8 to August 26
Wednesdays: July 9 to August 27
Fridays: July 11 to August 29
Autumn Session (10 weeks)
Registration request opens at 12:00 noon on Friday, July 25th and closes at 12:00 noon on July 27th.
Mondays: September 8 to November 10
Tuesdays: September 9 to November 11
Wednesdays: September 10 to November 12
Fridays: September 12 to November 14
Class Instructors
Monday and Tuesday: Stephen Johnston, [email protected]
Wednesday: Steve Broseke, [email protected]
Friday: Natasha Overton, [email protected]
Class Materials and Fees
All clay working materials and equipment needed for participation in the classes is provided through the class fees. Fees cover tuition, general supplies, basic clay forming took kit, and 25 pounds of clay. Additional clay is available for purchase through the class if it is needed by a student.
Class fees for 10 week classes is $206
Class fees for 8 week classes is $175
Additional 25 lb. bag of clay is $20
Request for Registration Procedure for All Classes
We’ve been using an online system for accepting requests for registration in our classes. For the past two years we’ve been honoring requests in the order they are received. The demand has been so great that the classes often have filled in less than 15 minutes of the time that access to the request form is opened. We recently filled a class in less than 1 minute after access was opened.
Given the above occurrence of rapidly filling classes, we are further refining our online request for registration process to provide a hopefully better opportunity to all individuals to participate in a class, including those that have limited access to the Internet at the time registration is opened.
Beginning with the Spring 2025 session, we will be incorporating a lottery drawing as part of our system for selecting individuals to register for the classes. Those wishing to register for a class must do so through the link to the online registration request form provided below. Upon receipt of all requests submitted during the designated 48 hour period (see the above class information), the names of approximately 40 individuals will be randomly selected to fill the available spots in the classes. Individuals will be placed in classes in the order they are selected. Should their first choice of class be filled, the individual will be placed in their second choice, or in their third choice if their second choice is filled, or fourth choice if third choice is filled.
An additional element that is being added to the request process is the acceptance of current class participants into the next session of classes prior to the opening of the request for registration process. We believe that it is extremely important for individuals who become enthusiastic for the medium through participation in our classes to be able to continue their development of skills in the medium without the potential of interruption created by the newly incorporated lottery component. Pottery and the medium of ceramics is demanding of ongoing skill development for the eventual success of the individual. Classes may have an average of 1 to 3 ongoing students in each class. Therefore, space for new students may be slightly reduced, but not be no amount that we believe is detrimental to the acceptance of new students.
The Toledo Potters Guild is located at:
5403 Elmer Dr.
Toledo, OH 43615
The link below will be active to register for Spring Adult Pottery Classes on: to be determined.
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Please do not contact Metroparks for class information. The Metroparks does not coordinate the classes. Toledo Potters’ Guild (and the other guilds within the Artist Village at Toledo Botanical Garden) are independent organizations. If you have questions concerning the classes, please contact the instructors noted above or email [email protected]. It usually takes a week or so to get the next session set up so please be patient. Thanks!
Potential Students – Please read the following:
It has come to the attention of the Toledo Potters’ Guild (TPG), that the operation of pacemakers may be negatively impacted by the motors in the electric pottery wheels. If you currently have a pacemaker, please check with your physician regarding your use of the pottery wheel during classed at TPG. TPG cannot be held responsible for your failing to take acceptable precautions to ensure the proper operation of your pacemaker.
In cases where multiple individuals (parent/child, husband/wife, coworkers, etc) wish to take a class together, only one registration request needs to be submitted for the participants. Be sure to provide all names and contact information as requested on the online form.