Learn At Your Own Pace

Learn At Your Own Pace

Build your skills with courses designed for any learning style. Pause, re-watch, change devices, mark favorites — it's easy to manage your lessons to fit your needs.

Find a Project, Find a Purpose

Find a Project, Find a Purpose

Project-based lessons provide potters with structure and clear instructions. No matter your skill, feel a sense of purpose when you finish what you started.

Get Started For Free

Get Started For Free

Strengthen your foundational skills for throwing on the wheel. The free bundle of 10 lessons includes tutorials on the basics of wedging, centering, throwing and trimming.

About Ruthie Schulz

I am originally from Texas, but it was through the opportunity to travel internationally that I developed an interest in ceramics. My interest began while living in Valencia, Spain during my teenage years, and continued while I traveled in both Europe and South America for my work as an adult. It wasn't until I had the opportunity to stay at home with my two children in 2006, that I began my journey in ceramics at the Art House in McKinney, TX under the direction of Sona Knox. From the very first time I sat at the pottery wheel, I felt like I had found my calling.

Membership

There are several ways to learn with Twisted Clay Online. We offer both a Monthly Membership and an Annual Membership. As a member of our Twisted Clay Online community, you will have access to all course materials on our website. You will have access to new courses that we release every month to help you learn and grow as a potter! Another option is to purchase each course individually for long term access.

Twisted Clay Studio in Grapevine, Texas

Twisted Clay Studio is our our in-person pottery studio located in Grapevine, Texas, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. A place where artistic community grows with the common goal of learning to control this humble material called "clay." Members of Twisted Clay not only find a rewarding outlet for their creative side, but also a community of friends that will join in the pursuit of mastering the potter's wheel. Learn more about our in-person studio at TwistedClay.co

Interview with Good Morning Texas

We had the amazing opportunity to invite Paige from Good Morning Texas to Twisted Clay! She did great at the wheel during our short time together.

Ruthie is a skilled teacher in not only how she instructs, but in how she plans her lessons. She develops lessons and projects based on systematic strategies of learning. Each lesson provides practice for the skills needed in the next lesson. She designs projects that apply what Vygotsky termed, zone of proximal development. The lessons are appropriate for what a student can do without assistance and what a student can do with guidance.

Rose

Twisted Clay Student

Ruthie has a way of teaching in class that makes it easy to understand. Her passion and personality comes across with every project and her ability to relay technique, problem solving and so many details about throwing a successful pot has transformed me from a “wanna be" to a potter. I was so excited when she started her online lessons with such functional pottery (dinnerware) that I couldn’t wait to get to the studio to try them out. Huge success with the bowls! The best part is I can watch as many times as I like to remind me of the steps and have the visual aids-So much FUN!

Dayle B.

Twisted Clay Student and Member

Having taken classes from Ruthie over the past 5 years I feel that my pottery skills, knowledge and form have improved beyond what I ever imagined. To begin, the instruction I have received has been informative, hands on and thorough from the beginning of a project to its final finished piece. I feel like each piece I have made has been treated like a masterpiece and it matters. The detail in Ruthie’s instruction is key to the success of each project and her ability to trouble shoot any challenge we might encounter along the way. I have also purchased her online dinner ware set course and have thrown many dinner wear sets for myself and family. Each time I sit down to throw a piece from the course I review her content and always learn something new. I believe that the course is why I’ve had success in making each piece of the dinner ware set and improving my skills and technique.

Kirsten Golly

Twisted Clay Student and Member

Discover Your Next Project!

Take a peek at our current and upcoming full-length courses. Each course covers throwing, trimming, troubleshooting material, and of course, glazing. Courses will include many projects we cover in our in-studio classes such as bottles, berry bowls, lidded jars and much more!