Petersen Art Center

★★★★★C M

This place is where it’s at! No bull shit or ego. Just All supportive, encouraging teachers that know what they are talking about. The kiln tech is amazing. Great price for studio time, guidance, firing, and glazing. I recommend this place to all my friends. I really love it too because there are people of all ages and skill levels and even students supportive and helpful of other students. This place is a god send for me.

★★★★★Alec

I did a lot of research when I was deciding where to do ceramics in SLC and landed at Petersen. Their pricing is the most reasonable. It reminds me of real art studios, no curated aesthetics, just old art posters on the walls, photos of students work, it’s clean but not too clean. Super knowledgeable instructors and kiln operators. Students of all ages who are also very helpful gives a welcoming community feel. It’s also easy to go in, be quiet and work by yourself if you want. It’s a family run business and you can see how much they care about what they provide. No other studio I looked at has cone 10 firing. Whenever I show my pieces to friends who go to other studios they’re very jealous of the incredible glazes.

★★★★★Bethany Worrell

I LOVE Petersen Art Center! Petersen has such a unique and welcoming community of students and instructors. Some of whom have been coming to the Art Center since they opened over 30 years ago! Whether you’re interested in painting or pottery, Petersen is the place to be. Each instructor has their own style of teaching, some allow for more freedom and others provide a more structured approach. I prefer to let my creativity flow and have an instructor there for any questions I may have, but I love that the option is there if I wanted more direction. Petersen Art Center is the opposite of pretentious. I was nervous coming into my first class because I had only ever been in studios where there was so much judgement from other students, but Petersen isn’t like that. Everyone, students included, want to help! There is always collaboration on glaze combos, throwing tips, and hand building techniques making it easier to get your preferred outcome. On top of classes, pottery students have the opportunity to use open studio time and participate in raku firings. I could not recommend Petersen Art Center enough!

★★★★★Lizz D.

My daughter and I currently take pottery classes and we absolutely love them! The teacher (Sarah) is amazing, all the people we've met are so nice, and it's so close! It desperately needs a remodel and an update to the plumbing in the classrooms, but we LOVE everything else!

★★★Maya Collinwood

I always wanted to do a pottery class and finally got the stars to align a bit to be able to. I tried two classes at Peterson. I really liked both teachers and they're super nice and friendly. The problem is that they take more students than they have room for. I cannot even tell you how much time I spent trying to find my projects and how many I never found or were damaged because someone bumped it when it was soft. There's simply not enough room on the shelves so everything is so squished. There's a rough system of where things go while you're still making it, then to get fired, then you glaze it, then it gets fired again. Anywhere in there, your project can disappear. Sometimes I found something weeks later. I finally just decided to find somewhere else. I had to go back multiple times for over 6 weeks afterwards trying to find what I glazed, hoping to find it fired.