BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO

LEARN

Interested in taking ceramic arts courses at Canaanville Arts Center? Sign up for our waitlist here!

Our classes will consist of three tiers so anyone can come to our campus and learn.

Discover

First touch , sessions at the wheel and at the table, clay digs, and community kiln loadings. No experience needed.

Develop

Build skill. Longer, more skill-intensive courses in wheel throwing and hand building. Clay, glazes, and firing techniques

Master

Go deep. Multi-day intensives with visiting artists, advanced firing workshops, and more!

GALLERY

Our online and brick and mortar gallery hosts new exhibitions monthly. We show work by our resident artists, local and Appalachian makers, and nationally known artists, in every medium. Everything on the walls and shelves is made to be lived with, and most of it is for sale.

RESIDENCY

Canaanville Arts Center (CAC) offers a residency program that empowers both emerging and established artists to grow creatively, intellectually, and professionally. With a minimally structured framework, artists enjoy creative autonomy, enabling them to focus on their work, hone technical skills, and engage with a diverse community of makers. A CAC residency fosters shared discoveries, collaborative learning, and meaningful artistic exchange. Reach out to our email canaanvilleartscenter@gmail.com for more information.


COMMUNITY

There’s a place for you here.

CAC is a place for making, learning, showing and gathering. Rent a studio and work alongside other artists. Take a class, whether it's your first time at the wheel or your hundredth firing. Show and sell your work in our gallery and markets. Or just come by for a First Friday, with a new exhibition, open studios, and food and drinks on the patio. However you find your way in, you're part of what's happening here.

Ways to get involved (a list of links, styled like your Learn section):

RECLAIM

Coal built Canaanville and then left it. The Canaan Coal Company pulled coal out of a 450-foot shaft on this hill and left behind the story of Appalachian Ohio: torn ground, emptied towns, wealth that went somewhere else. We are turning that around on the same ground. The mine's 1907 building still stands, and in it people now make things instead of taking them.