Class Registration: Pottery Mug Carving Workshop with Rhino Pottery
Class Registration: Pottery Mug Carving Workshop with Rhino Pottery
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Join us for a cozy, creative evening to craft your next favorite ceramic mug! In this beginner-friendly workshop, potter Rhiannon Diehl will teach you how to carve and decorate a hand-thrown clay mug (vessel made beforehand by her) using underglaze and carving tools.
Whether you're inspired by fall pumpkins, spooky season magic, or timeless patterns, you’ll end up with a custom piece of functional art, ready for daily coffee, tea, or cider!
🍵 Gnat & Bee tea service included.
Event Details
- Date & Time: Thursday, October 15th, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
- Location: Gnat & Bee (222 W. Main St., Loudonville, OH 44842)
- Cost: $60 (Includes pre-thrown mug, glaze, tools and firing)
- Skill Level: Beginner-Friendly (Ages 12+)
What to Expect
- Hands-On Decorating (2 Hours): Rhiannon will guide you step-by-step through underglaze painting and clay-carving techniques. Bring design ideas, seasonal motifs, or let your imagination lead the way!
- Professional Finishing: After class, Rhino will take your custom mug back to her studio to apply food-safe glaze and fire it in her kiln.
- Mug Pick Up: In about a week, your finished, fully functional pottery mug will be ready! You can pick it up at Gnat & Bee in Loudonville, at Rhino Pottery Studio in Wooster, or have it shipped (calculated shipping rates apply).
Meet Your Facilitator: Rhiannon Diehl
Rhiannon is a Wooster native. With a bachelors degree in Art Education with a focus in Ceramics, she has been working with clay since 2011. Working out of her at-home studio, she specifies in wheel thrown functional pottery ranging from mugs, dinnerware sets, and home decor. Her technique is a unique process of hand carving the clay creating a very texturized surface that begs to be touched. She likes for her pots to bring artistry and style anywhere in the home, while also celebrating the contemplative moments of simply enjoying a cup of coffee out of a favorite mug.
You can also find a selection of Rhiannon’s finished pottery for sale inside the Gnat & Bee retail shop.
📋 Registration & Policy Details
- How to Register: Add this class to your cart and complete payment at checkout. Space is limited, and your spot is secured upon payment.
- Cancellations & Refunds: Full refunds are available for cancellations made on or before October 8th, 2026 (please call or email us as soon as possible). Cancellations after October 8th and no-shows are non-refundable.
- Accessibility: Held in our main floor workshop space, accessible via our handicap-accessible back entrance.
- Early Arrival: Feel free to arrive a little early to browse the Gnat & Bee shop before class starts!
Questions or Phone Registration...
📞 Call us at (567) 203-2229
📧 Email us at gnatandbeeteam@gmail.com

It's easy to get caught up in life. I am busy and don't make a lot of a time to make art and get creative lately. Attending this class was a perfect way for me to put everything aside and dedicate a couple of hours into working with clay, carving it with imagery in my mind, the process was so relaxing and therapeutic for me. I loved getting lost in carving, laughing with friendly people, learning from Rhino's expertise and having a functional piece of art in the end. I gifted this oak leaf & acorn mug to my husband.
Hello Gnat&Bee. Well, thus far into your class offering with our instructor RHINO I have thoroughly enjoyed the process, i.e. website advertising and sign up was efficient and validated upon my arrival, the pre-class guidance provided me with a choice of a malleable pottery shapes (I chose a ~9" plate) which I then allowed to directly influence my design theme so that I had ample time to prepare for my general approach when actually listening to instructions in the class, but probably most importantly that I began to narrow down my design ideas to just two [2] by the time class started, RHINO's methods of instruction seemed based upon her accumulated expertise relationship with this medium to the extent that I felt, and I believe the general class of cohorts would mostly agree, confident that she believed in our abilities to accomplish somethings within the allotted time with the tools and talents we then had at our singular and class/team levels, RHINO also seemed at ease with the diversity of the students and their respective goals, the dynamics of changing goals, ambitions, reservations, and enthusiasm. So, in conclusion for now as I have not yet received notification that my piece survived the final processing steps yet, I am interested to evaluate my investment in time, talents, and money upon delivery of my pottery plate. What I might emphasize as a base level of excitement for this piece, beyond my own design excerpt of some forty-seven (47) ago (which I had then transferred onto a leather medium for a wallet gift to my childhood friend Scotty) is the fact that RHINO paused long enough to carve her own signature into the back of my pottery plate (by my request), which was shaped by her own hands, amongst all of her other instructor's duties during our class. To which I am guessing that my friend would have appreciated the MOST. And as he has been deceased for some years now, I am still in contact with some of his surviving family members, who may yet be willing to receive my pottery plate as an ode to my friend's memory once my own parents have the opportunity to place their own signatures upon same. Thank you Natalie for being the entrepreneurial "spirit type" who continues to demonstrate that your business is growing at some rate and along your time horizon you seem to know how to slow the continuum of time, reminding everyone who is paying attention, that while your: teas, bath balms, artisian foods and crafts, etc. can be very important items to consider for purchasing, your business philosophy seems rooted within a holistic/whole+is+TICK balance called: LIFE, i.e. the quality is SO, the quantity is SO, SO meditate if you want to upon IT, try to enjoy the process enough that we begin again, or once again, to appreciate the differences, all the TICK tock while.