13th Annual Tour de Clay
Saturday and Sunday - December 12 & 13, 2020
Make sure you put this on your calendar!!

Tour Goes Virtual in 2020

For the first time in the history of Tour de Clay, you can travel the tour from the comfort of your own home on your computer or even your phone OR hop in the car and (if there's nothing discouraging it) travel to all of the three studios open to the public this year.
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Complete instructions will be posted on the Tour website as soon as we have all the details worked out. Be on the lookout for: our email blasts; facebook and instagram posts; local advertising; and our direct mail postcards.

We are excited about the virtual Tour de Clay 2020
We hope you will join us and encourage you to invite your friends and family too!
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Click here to see the artists at the Pottery Boys Studio

What is Tour de Clay?

Tour de Clay is an annual event, a self-guided tour featuring 3 Tampa Bay area clay studios this year and the creative work of an impressive list of clay artists. Due to COVID-19, we are offering a virtual tour on-line experience OR you can still travel to each of the 3 studios on the tour and see the work first hand and make your purchases right there. Not all artists will be at the physical locations but all artists will be represented in the virtual Tour experience. Travel from studio to studio on line, enter each of the individual artists galleries and make your purchases there, check out, and then continue on with the virtual tour.
To make it easy for you to plan, Tour de Clay is always the second weekend in December. Each year features the work from 13 core members as well as a variety of guest artists. Great care is taken to bring fresh, new artists to the Tampa Bay Area just for this event.

Saturday -  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.

Sunday - 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 demonstrations and opportunities to participate.
​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.