Summer Registration

Open registration for Summer 2025 session opens at Noon April 30, 2025. Classes will be visible at 8:00 am. April 23, 2025.

Classes fill quickly, make sure to mark the date and plan on being ready to purchase your class promptly at Noon when registration opens. Follow the links below to the registration site.

Pottery - Teen & Adult Booking 

Pottery - Youth Booking 

 

Weather related closures

Please check the Cancellation Information page for weather related closures.

Bicentennial Art Center offers a variety of pottery classes for children and adults.

We are located on the beautiful Bicentennial Park grounds in Aurora CO.  Currently the classes offered include:

• Parent & Child

• Pottery for Kids 

• Pottery for Teens

• Beginning Wheel Throwing

• Beginning Thrown & Carved

• All Levels Wheel Throwing

• Intermediate Wheel Throwing

• Thrown & Altered Clay Forms 

• Handbuilding All Levels

• Ceramic Mask

• A Night in Clay

Bicentennial Art Center has a collection of 40 glazes to help student's creativity come out in their final work.  The resources provided along with our talented teaching staff offer an unrivaled experience in ceramics education.  Classes fill up quickly, so call or sign up online today!

In order to use the facility, students must be registered in a class.  Students have five business days, prior to class beginning, to withdraw for an account credit.

Please call 303.344.1776 for more information.

Meet our instructors.

The Bicentennial Art Center instructional staff has decades of experience in clay, which they draw upon to fulfill the mission of our center.  As artists, advocates, and educators, Bicentennial Art Center is committed to ensuring the space, support, and inspiration necessary for learning, expression, and mastery in the ceramic arts.  Take a moment to learn more about our

instructors.

Bicentennial Art Center open hours

Open hours are only available to our current students. There are several class options for open hours as well as by the hour rates. Call and ask our front desk staff which one best fits your needs. 

Studio Hours

Monday       8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 8 p.m.
Tuesday      8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday  8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 8 p.m.
Thursday     1 to 8 p.m.
Friday         8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
Saturday     9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Closed Sunday

Address

Bicentennial Art Center
13655 E. Alameda Ave.
303.344.1776 (phone)

 

Arts Education E-News

We are happy to announce a new monthly newsletter to update you on all of the arts education programs the city of Aurora has to offer! This publication includes pottery, opportunities in visual art, music, pottery, theatre & dance from the city of Aurora’s Cultural Services Division. This newsletter will take the place of the printed recreation guide that used to be distributed.

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