Plan to Join Us Next Year for Our 15th Annual Tour de Clay
Saturday and Sunday - December 10 & 11, 2022
Make sure you put this on your calendar!!

Tour Goes Back to In Person in 2022

Tour de Clay added a virtual option in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While we expected to be back to normal in 2021, we decided to postpone our 2021 Tour event to 2022.
You can still go to: TampaTourDeClay.com to contact Tour Artists - on the website you will find links to artists' individual websites, emails, or gallery listings where their work may be found and purchased for this holiday season 2021.

We are excited about next year's Tour de Clay 2022
We hope you will join us along with your friends and family too!

What is Tour de Clay?

Tour de Clay is an annual event, a self-guided tour featuring various Tampa Bay area clay studios and the creative work of an impressive list of clay artists. Due to COVID-19 in 2020, we began to offer a virtual tour on-line experience. The 2021 Tour was postponed so we are setting our sights on December 2022 where we hope you will be able to travel to each of the participating studios on the tour and see the work first hand and make your purchases right there. However, we plan to continue the virtual Tour as well so those who can't make it to the studios even after the COVID pandemic, can still check out all the work and make some purchases from the comfort of their own home.
In 2021, we will not have a physical Tour De Clay but we will provide links to the artists so if you are interested in purchasing something from them this year, you can contact them directly.
To make it easy for you to plan, Tour de Clay is always the second weekend in December. Each year features the work from core members as well as clay works from a variety of guest artists.
Each year great care is taken to bring new artists with fresh new clay works to the Tampa Bay Area just for this event. The complete list of participating artist is usually announced on our website in August.

2022 - Saturday 9am to 5pm  -  This day will be dedicated to  progressive studio presentations, which may include pottery demonstrations, viewing and discussing some of the most recent pieces out of the kiln, or general discussions about the potters found at each studio location as well as a bit about their individual creations.

2022 - Sunday 11am to 4pm - The tour continues, those who have traveled to see all the studios often choose to return to the studios featuring work they would like to add to their own collection or perhaps pick up a piece for a holiday gift.
Each studio features different kinds of events, demonstrations, and opportunities to participate.

If there are drawings to support local charities, they generally happen at 4pm on Sunday, so if you have a chance to win something, you might want to plan a return for this part of the event.
​Glenn Woods is shown above during a kiln opening from a previous Tour de Clay in his Palm Harbor Studio discussing the results of the last crystalline glaze firing. Kiln openings, demonstrations, and studio presentations normally take place on Saturday at each of the area studios featured on the Tour and are timed so attendees can make it to each of the studios for their studio presentations.
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Additional experiences and opportunities will be featured online for those who choose to take part in the virtual tour only.
Pat Viella (Plymouth, Massachusetts), is a regular attendee and helper at the Pottery Boys Studio in Palm Harbor. Here she is shown helping Glenn Woods pull one of the winning tickets - all proceeds go to support local charities.