Plan to Join Us For Our 14th Annual Tour de Clay
Saturday and Sunday - December 11 & 12, 2021
Make sure you put this on your calendar!!

Tour Goes In Person and Virtual in 2021

Tour de Clay added a virtual option in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While we expect to be back to normal in 2021, we will continue to offer this virtual option in 2021.
For the second year now 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 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 this year's Tour de Clay 2021
We hope you will join us along with 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 various Tampa Bay area clay studios and the creative work of an impressive list of clay artists. Due to COVID-19 in 2020, we offered a virtual tour on-line experience but this year you can 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 can still check out all the work and make some purchases.
This year we plan to have all artists and their work at the physical locations but some artists may not be represented in the virtual Tour, so if you want to see all of the artist's work, you will want to travel to all the studio locations.
For the virtual tour, you can still 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 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.

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.

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.