Red Hot Center for Clay is proud to be Baton Rouge’s only community based ceramic teaching studio and we are dedicated to learning and practice. We are located on historic Highland Road in Baton Rouge, in the Kenilworth Shopping Center. Founded in 2010 by Leanne McClurg Cambric, Red Hot’s primary mission is to provide the service of teaching clay processes, focusing on functional pottery, clay sculpture, and tile. We are a hands-on facility encouraging students of all ages and all experience levels to make one of a kind works of art. We offer small classes with individual attention given to each student, as well as private lessons, and membership to a communal studio space for those who wish to practice independently.

Our vision is to share our passion for making clay objects with the Baton Rouge Community. Our staff members are each professional ceramic artists with years of experience as both educators and makers. Our classes are offered year round and range from one night to two months. All of the finished objects made by the students will be fired and taken home for them to enjoy. We also offer a small retail space that consists of professional handmade ceramic objects and tools for making.

Our goals as a business are to provide a safe satisfying learning experience for our students that encourages them to appreciate their abilities as artists. We pride ourselves on repeat students who learn the joys of a ceramic studio practice and share that with the Baton Rouge community.

Unless otherwise noted all classes are taught by Leanne McClurg Cambric. Leanne has her MFA in Ceramics from Louisiana State University. She has been teaching ceramics since 1993 in both academic and community run facilities. She was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Art, Music, Theater, and ETEC Department at the Baton Rouge Community College until 2008. She was an Assistant Professor at Southern University and an Instructor at Louisiana State University. She has an active art career showing regionally, nationally, and internationally and she has appeared on HGTV’s Crafter’s Coast to Coast. In 2007 she was the Emerging Artist for NCECA, a national annual clay conference and received the NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award. She has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation and Watershed Center for Ceramics. She has enjoyed being a visiting artist at several institutions around the country, giving lectures and demonstrations about her work.

She was published in the Spring 2009 Issue of Studio Potter. You can find out more about her at her website. www.leannemcclurg.com

All of the other instructors and studio assistants at Red Hot are professional ceramic artists with years of expertise and hold degrees or comparable experience within the ceramics field.

Instructors and Resident Artists

Gallery and Retail