Hawaii Potters' Guild
A member-run nonprofit ceramics studio in Mōʻiliʻili, and the largest teaching pottery on Oʻahu. It works on terms rather than drop-ins: a twelve-week session buys a weekly three-hour class plus studio access between sessions, which is the part that actually turns a beginner into a potter. Wheel classes run every day but Thursday and Sunday, morning and evening, alongside hand-building on Fridays and Saturdays. Instructors are working Hawaiʻi ceramicists rather than staff.
Coming up at The Guild
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- Workshops & ClassesSATURDAYS · 9 AM–12 PM
Wheel Throwing: Beginner — Saturday Mornings
Next: Sat, Sep 5 · 9:00 AM
The Guild's dedicated beginner wheel class, taught by Gerald Toyama on Saturday mornings from 9 to noon through to 8 November. Unlike the all-levels sessions, everyone in this room starts in the same place, which is worth something: nobody is watching you fail to centre while pulling a perfect cylinder beside you. Twelve weekly three-hour sessions is enough to get from wedging to a glazed pot you would actually keep. This is the class that fills first.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesSATURDAYS · 12:30–3:30 PM
Hand-building — Saturday Afternoons
Next: Sat, Sep 5 · 12:30 PM
Karen Lucas's Saturday afternoon hand-building class at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, 12:30 to 3:30pm, running the twelve-week autumn term to 8 November. It sits directly after the Saturday beginner wheel class, so the weekend at the Guild runs wheel in the morning and hand-building after lunch — some members do both. Pinch, coil and slab, no wheel involved, and no prior clay experience assumed.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesMONDAYS · 9 AM–12 PM
Wheel Throwing: Beginner & Intermediate — Monday Mornings
Next: Mon, Sep 7 · 9:00 AM
A twelve-week wheel class at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, taught by Jennifer Fujimoto on Monday mornings from 9 to noon. The Guild is a member-run studio in Mōʻiliʻili rather than a drop-in shop, so a term buys you the same wheel each week and time in the building between sessions, which is what actually moves a beginner past centring. This is the mixed beginner-and-intermediate room: you can arrive never having touched clay, or arrive able to throw a cylinder and want someone watching your pulls. The autumn session runs 18 August to 8 November.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesMONDAYS · 6:30–9:30 PM
Wheel Throwing: All Levels — Monday Evenings
Next: Mon, Sep 7 · 6:30 PM
Joel Park's Monday evening wheel class at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, 6:30 to 9:30pm, across a twelve-week autumn term ending 8 November. All-levels at the Guild means genuinely mixed — first-timers on one wheel and people refining a lidded form on the next — which suits anyone who wants instruction without being pinned to a syllabus. The evening slot is the one that works if you are at a desk until five; Mōʻiliʻili is an easy run from town and the studio has parking.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesTUESDAYS · 6:30–9:30 PM
Wheel Throwing: All Levels — Tuesday Evenings
Next: Tue, Sep 8 · 6:30 PM
Vince Hazen teaches the Tuesday evening wheel session at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, 6:30 to 9:30pm through to 8 November. Three hours is long enough to throw, trim what you made last week and still glaze something, which is why the Guild runs terms rather than one-off taster nights. Open to complete beginners as well as returning potters. The Guild is a nonprofit studio run by its members, so the instructors are working Oʻahu potters rather than staff.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesWEDNESDAYS · 9 AM–12 PM
Wheel Throwing: Beginner & Intermediate — Wednesday Mornings
Next: Wed, Sep 9 · 9:00 AM
Mark White's Wednesday morning wheel class at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, 9am to noon, running the twelve-week autumn term to 8 November. Mornings at the Guild are the quiet shift — fewer people in the room than the evening classes, which in practice means more of the instructor's attention per wheel. Suitable whether you have never centred a lump of clay or you are already throwing and want the habit of a weekly session. Mōʻiliʻili, ten minutes from downtown.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesWEDNESDAYS · 6:30–9:30 PM
Wheel Throwing: All Levels — Wednesday Evenings
Next: Wed, Sep 9 · 6:30 PM
Daven Hee's Wednesday evening wheel class at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, 6:30 to 9:30pm, through the autumn term ending 8 November. Hee is an established Hawaiʻi ceramicist, and the all-levels room means the brief is your own work rather than a set exercise — useful if you have thrown before and want someone to tell you why the wall keeps collapsing. Twelve weeks, one three-hour session a week, in the Guild's Mōʻiliʻili studio.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails → - Workshops & ClassesFRIDAYS · 9 AM–12 PM
Hand-building — Friday Mornings
Next: Fri, Sep 11 · 9:00 AM
Minami Cheever's hand-building class at the Hawaii Potters' Guild, Friday mornings 9 to noon, across the twelve-week autumn term to 8 November. Hand-building is the route into clay that does not involve the wheel at all — pinch, coil and slab — and it is the honest answer for anyone who has tried throwing, hated it, and assumed pottery was not for them. Slab work also makes the flat things a wheel cannot: platters, tiles, boxes. Beginners welcome.
Price not published on the Guild's schedule pageDetails →
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