








Go when you want a weekly reason to make something with your hands instead of talking about it. Alān teaches small groups — sculpture and pottery both — starting from a picture or an idea, and he'll spend a month with you bi-weekly getting one piece right rather than rushing five. Best for anyone starting from zero: he corrects the habits self-taught hands pick up before you've noticed them, and the studio runs on tea, quiet music and the kind of attention you don't get in a class of twenty.