Park West Ceramics, Chicago

Every class begins the same way at Park West Ceramics: with a ball of clay. What that clay will become, however, is different every time, as the hands-on workshops encourage participants' creativity in shaping the material with their hands and spinning potter's wheels. Younger artists can take to the adjoining Kids Clay Room to build and paint their own bowls, figurines, and piggy banks with wallet-sized openings.