Clay for All: Scholarship & Creative Access Fund

What if everyone who wanted to work with clay could?

There is a moment when hands first touch clay. For many people, it’s a moment of calm. Of possibility. Of being fully present. But for too many, that moment never comes—because access has a price.

At Clay Art Center, we believe creativity is not a luxury, it’s a human need.
And that belief is what inspires Clay for All: Clay Art Center’s Scholarship and Creative Access Fund.

Your donation opens a door, offers a seat in a class, and invites someone into a creative community that can change how they see themselves—and their future. Your support helps advance our mission to provide an inclusive space for learning and personal growth.

You can help us shape someone’s future.

Thanks to the generosity of donors like you, last year Clay Art Center:

• Awarded over 130 scholarships for weekly clay summer camps for families from our local community, ensuring even more opportunities to learn, create, and connect.

• We funded free access to clay programs for more than 1,000 additional youth and adults, , providing arts enrichment, creativity, and community.

• We launched clay classes for veterans, expanding from two to six locations in under three months, with more being scheduled.

• We built our first ADA accessible classroom, allowing us to us to offer more classes, and expand our reach even further.

Together, we can provide even more creative access.

Your gift ensures everyone has access to clay programming.

Your gift makes a promise:

• That creativity will be shared, not restricted.

• That talent will be nurtured, not overlooked.

• That clay truly is for all.

Your gift will change lives.

When you support Clay Art Center’s Clay for All: Scholarship and Creative Access Fund, you’re shaping more than vessels—you’re shaping lives, confidence, imagination, and opportunity. Together, we can ensure that Clay Art Center provides opportunities for individuals to flourish, and that everyone has the chance to discover their own creativity.

Your gift of:

• $2,500 could fund a free class with a community partner

• $1,000 could provide 400 lbs. of clay, enough for over a week of classes

• $500 could cover the cost of firing our budding artists’ clay pieces

• $250 could provide a scholarship to a youth class

• $100 could provide the glazes that brighten up each magical piece

• $50 could provide clay and tools for one student