Pottery Summer Camp
Welcome potters!
Summer Pottery Camp 2026 Information is available below, and registration opens on February 14th at 9am. Scholarships are open on January 1, 2026 and close on Feb 1. Please contact Ona at onaarmstrong@gmail to be added to our mailing list so you can get all the information delivered to your inbox.
**New Camp Location for 2026**
Rainbow Community School
574 Haywood Rd
Asheville, NC 28806
By popular demand, the final two weeks will be the August Pottery Camp Intensive, located at Firefly Valley Pottery in West Asheville.
Dates for 2026:
June 8-12
June 15-19 (Spanish Language Week)
June 22-26 (BIPOC Week*)
June 29-July 3
July 6-10
July 13-17
July 20-24
July 27-31
Aug 3-7 and Aug 10-14th- Pottery Intensive Weeks
(Two week camp held at Firefly Valley Pottery** that includes a parents' night out, "Parent Camp" tickets and more.)
*Black, Indigenous, People of Color (including Asian Pacific Islander) youth invited only
** Firefly Valley Pottery address: 25 Central Ave West, Asheville, NC 28806
Please see below for camp details and information about
scholarships, helper program and more.
Does your child crave a calm, well-structured creative environment? Do they love creating for hours on end and want to learn new creative techniques in pottery and other natural crafts? Then you're found the right place!
Summer Pottery Camp is a creative and fun week where potters discover new techniques through a spiraling hand-building curriculum in the morning (pinch, slab, coil techniques) in morning hand-building class and wheel throwing techniques in an afternoon one-on-one throwing tutorial. Potters will enjoy the outdoor environment with additional guided activities on the property like rope swings, wooden sculpture, baking, fruit carving, painting, fiber arts and more in a relaxed, quiet outdoor environment.
Who is invited?
Camp is open to beginners and experienced potters. Camp is open to ages 5-16. The average age of campers is 5-10, and most campers aged 11 and up are helpers, but campers that age are welcomed, often with a friend is nice for them. There are usually a few campers who are older who are not helpers, and they can be in community with older helpers during the day as well.
BIPOC Week is only open to Black, Indigenous, People of Color (which includes Asian and Pacific Islanders-API) children.
All students are welcomed to Spanish Language Week.
Tuition:
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Pottery Camp costs $550/week for a full week, full day ticket.
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For half day (10am-1pm) are $350. Helper tickets (full day) are $300.
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10% sibling discounts are available for the second, third, etc tickets for each family.
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Morning half-day tickets (10am-1pm) will be available this year . Morning is when we do the most pottery and we can make sure they throw on the wheel and hand build, so they get all the pottery plus play, lunch and "rest and digest" time called siesta.
Hours and Before/After Care:
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Camp is held from 10am - 4pm Monday-Friday with additional hours available from 9am - 5pm for $10/ hour per child.
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Half-day morning tickets are available from 10am-12:45pm.
REFUND POLICY
50% refund available up to one week before camp begins.
No refunds closer than 1 week to camp start date. If you need to switch weeks, there is a $75 fee.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarship applications will open on January 1, 2026. Scholarships will be awarded before camp registration begins on February 14th, 2025. Scholarships are only for full day campers.
WAITLIST
If a camp is sold out on the website, we will have a waitlist for you to join.
CAMP HELPERS
Pottery Camp also offers an opportunity for those age 11-16 to be a Camp Helper. Helpers will support camp staff in activities. Helpers will get time to hand-build, enjoy time on the wheel, and lead fun afternoon activities. If you've been a helper before, don't fill out this form- go ahead and register for the week that works best for you beginning on Feb. 14th- plan ahead with your helper friends and have someone ready to purchase tickets.
Interested in becoming a new helper? Please apply using the form below.