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Summer Studios
Summer Studios: Welcoming Lomita pottery studio with patient instruction and date-night classes.
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Summer Studios: Welcoming Lomita pottery studio with patient instruction and date-night classes.
Summer Studios, located at 2161 Lomita Blvd #1624 in Lomita, CA, offers hands-on pottery classes from beginner ceramics to wheel throwing, including date-night options. Instructors like David provide patient, step-by-step guidance in a welcoming, safe space. Reviewers praise friendly instruction, fun sessions, and opportunities to continue with 4- or 6-week courses; Sokkit the dog is a noted studio presence.
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Fun, guided wheel-throwing sessions for couples, including trimming, firing, and glazing of finished pieces.
Comprehensive beginner to advanced classes over 4-6 weeks, covering techniques and studio practice.
Open studio hours for students to practice and create independently after completing courses.
Customized pottery sessions for events, parties, or team-building activities with personalized instruction.
Post-class services including trimming, firing, and glazing, with convenient pickup of completed pottery.
Overall rating
Mike Ax
The quick take: Had a great time in our date night class, and will be going back for more. With more details: After getting curious about pottery, my wife and I started looking for art studios in the area and happily found that Summer Studios had different class options. We stopped in and David was very helpful and friendly. We decided to do a date night class as a way to check it out and see if we liked it. Sokkit (the dog) very politely welcomed us on the night, and then David got into telling us about the process. He methodically stepped through the process and explained why you do the different steps and gave great descriptions of how to do them. Then came our time to play with the mud... err... clay and throw our own pots. David was there to help us work through the steps and help us when we ran into some rookie concerns. It was a very welcoming and safe space to learn, and he made it a great date night activity. For our class, we got to make 3 different pots each. For the date night classes, David does the trimming, firing, and glazing, and then we get to go pick up the finished pots. I'm looking forward to seeing how they look after they get glazed & fired. We enjoyed it so much we are looking at doing one of the 4 or 6 week classes in the coming months.
Sylwia Jonasen
We had such a great experience here! We took the date night pottery-throwing class with David, and it was absolutely fantastic. David was patient, informative, and made the whole experience so much fun. We learned a lot, laughed a ton, and left feeling so proud of what we made (even the piece that David helped save after it flew off my wheel!). We’re already planning to come back for more classes and to pet Sokkit (the dog) and talk to Momo. Highly recommend!
Hangyu Zhou
Had my first wheel throwing pottery class here with David. David has been really really patient and good at teaching you how to make pieces beautifully and perfectly! I’m pretty happy about what I learned and what I made over the 6 weeks! Pieces in this photo are just my first 2 weeks results! Some more is on the way!!!!
CLS
Really enjoyed my beginner ceramics course and the studio time associated with it. Can’t wait to continue and build on the foundation Yasuko has taught us. Very friendly and chill environment. Lots of ongoing courses for people to advance their skills.
Katty P
My husband and I did a wheel pottery class for a date night here. Our instructor was Dave and he was a great teacher. He was very kind and helped make sure our pots turned out well. I was intimidated by pottery before this but my pots turned out a lot better than I expected. So fun! We are definitely coming back for another class!
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