2008 Woodie Awards
Two in one at the Color Clay Cafe
By: Ket White
Issue date: 1/30/08 Section: Entertainment & Features
Kat White
Staff Writer
If you're looking to indulge your inner art major with a low-pressure project, Color Clay Café may hold the answer.
The business is ideal for artistic kids and cursory artists. And even though Color Clay Cafe sounds like the name for a coffee shop, it is not.
The Cafe is actually a mix between a craft store selling a large variety of unfinished pottery - sculptures, mugs, vases, platters - and a kitchen-table-crafts layout.
Customers at the Café paint pottery, and the space is more comparable to an amateur studio for novice artists than any coffee shop.
Be aware: Color Clay Café does not provide deep introduction into work with pottery, but it does offer lessons in painting, drawing and clay hand-building.
Any work with pottery is kept at an elementary level, which makes the cafe a spot for group gatherings or birthday parties, but not hot spot for serious art aficionados.
The cost of Color Clay Café's pottery selections range from $5 to $45, which does not include a studio charge of half the cost of the pottery but not exceeding $9.
The Café will provide the glaze for your clay masterpiece and fire it for you to pick up at your convenience.
The name is not wholly misleading, as the Cafe does reasonably priced snacks - such as granola and ice cream - and drinks, such as bottled water, soda, cappuccinos and lattes. But the cafe is focused more artistic creativity than being a restaurant.
So, feel free to bring your own food if you know you will be hungry.
Hours are 10am-6pm Monday through Wednesday, 10am-9:30pm Thursday and Friday, and 10am-8pm Saturday (Sundays are 1-6pm seasonally) and it is located in Greenville at the junction of East North Street and Pleasantburg Drive.
Staff Writer
If you're looking to indulge your inner art major with a low-pressure project, Color Clay Café may hold the answer.
The business is ideal for artistic kids and cursory artists. And even though Color Clay Cafe sounds like the name for a coffee shop, it is not.
The Cafe is actually a mix between a craft store selling a large variety of unfinished pottery - sculptures, mugs, vases, platters - and a kitchen-table-crafts layout.
Customers at the Café paint pottery, and the space is more comparable to an amateur studio for novice artists than any coffee shop.
Be aware: Color Clay Café does not provide deep introduction into work with pottery, but it does offer lessons in painting, drawing and clay hand-building.
Any work with pottery is kept at an elementary level, which makes the cafe a spot for group gatherings or birthday parties, but not hot spot for serious art aficionados.
The cost of Color Clay Café's pottery selections range from $5 to $45, which does not include a studio charge of half the cost of the pottery but not exceeding $9.
The Café will provide the glaze for your clay masterpiece and fire it for you to pick up at your convenience.
The name is not wholly misleading, as the Cafe does reasonably priced snacks - such as granola and ice cream - and drinks, such as bottled water, soda, cappuccinos and lattes. But the cafe is focused more artistic creativity than being a restaurant.
So, feel free to bring your own food if you know you will be hungry.
Hours are 10am-6pm Monday through Wednesday, 10am-9:30pm Thursday and Friday, and 10am-8pm Saturday (Sundays are 1-6pm seasonally) and it is located in Greenville at the junction of East North Street and Pleasantburg Drive.
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