Build Confidence at the Wheel!
Becoming proficient at the wheel can be a long journey — but you can learn faster. Join my online studio here and learn the techniques to become a skilled potter.
In-person instruction is not always available or within reach. This online studio brings all of our tried and true Twisted Clay Studio projects to your home or community studio. With new lessons weekly, you'll never run out of projects!
Your Personal Online Pottery Studio
Whether you are seeking a project to inspire you or needing to improve a specific skill, these lessons help you be productive at the wheel. With 450+ videos and new classes added weekly, you can keep learning and growing.
Spend just 15 minutes or dive deep into a project. Learn when and where you choose — at your own pace, on your own schedule. Membership gives you access to all my projects and lessons.
Like to keep a regular schedule?
A new class each week has you learning along with the group on the Current Project.
Want to learn in real-time?
Live Classes lets you interact with our clay community to discuss and ask questions in real time.
Need to work at your own pace?
Pick a Project Course or Studio Skill from our Learning Catalog and access all the lessons on your own schedule.
Just have a few minutes to learn?
Troubleshoot a problem or focus on one skill — with 130+ Short Tutorials, there's plenty to learn.
Take Control at the Wheel - One Project at a Time
After working with hundreds of students at my teaching studio, I’ve found that project-based learning makes all the difference.
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
Each project is designed to build key clay skills like throwing bigger, making lids, collaring, and more, all while creating pieces you will be proud of.
A COMMUNITY OF SUPPORT
Detailed, high-quality videos are mixed with Live Classes that answer your questions in real-time. Our Twisted Clay Online community helps us grow and learn together.
PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Stream anywhere with our Twisted Clay app or from your browser. Pause, re-watch, change devices, mark favorites — it's easy to manage lessons to fit your needs.
Stop Guessing, Start Fixing
My Troubleshooting videos show you how to fix common issues, based on real-world experiences with my students. I share the tools I use, plus the techniques and hand positions to make them work.
START FREE TRIAL
Meet the teacher, Ruthie Schulz
My teaching methods are developed with real-world experience from hundreds of classes taught at my in-person, Twisted Clay Studio in Grapevine, Texas. With over 20 years hands-on experience, I have a deep love of ceramics that I share with my students at Twisted Clay Studio and, now, at Twisted Clay Online.
Twisted Clay Online projects are detailed, high-quality video lessons that walk you through every stage of making — including troubleshooting tips! — broken into short, easy-to-watch segments. You will work on improving your clay skills and finish with a functional work of art.
Start a Membership Now with a 7-day FREE Trial Period
Choose your membership type and start building confidence at the wheel.
ANNUALLY
$184/yr
Get over two months free when you join with Annual! Commit to your craft for a year and improve your skills as a potter.
MONTHLY
$19.99/yr
The monthly membership gives you unlimited access to all published courses and online materials.
Learn Anywhere, Anytime
Once you join Twisted Clay Online, you can learn anywhere on any of your devices. Download our Twisted Clay app or login on our website. Cast from your device to your TV!
On-demand access to your favorite lessons
Download videos to watch offline, anywhere, anytime!
Create your own custom playlists
Community and Calendar at your fingertips
Quick note: membership sign-ups and account changes still happen on the TCO website. Once you’re an active member, download the app and log in with your usual email and password.
Kind Words from Our Members
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.
Dayle B.
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.
Rose M.
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.
Kirsten G.
