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A yearly membership to Scenic City Clay Arts is $125, which allows weekday access to the facility. Members then pay a fee of $15 per visit.
Sometimes, things just get too big and you have to move on.
When David Chambers had the opportunity to nearly triple the working space for Scenic City Clay Arts, he jumped at the chance. More room meant more space for more students, more clay-throwing wheels and a larger gallery to showcase the finished pieces.
Scenic City Clay Arts, which has been operating out of the John A. Patten Recreational Center in Lookout Valley for a decade, moved this week into the basement of the Arts Building on 11th Street. The new space is 3,500 square feet as opposed to the 1,250 it occupied at John A. Patten.
“We simply outgrew where we were,” says Chambers, executive director of Scenic City Clay Arts. “And, of course, being downtown will help. So many people think being out in Lookout Valley means we are a 100 miles from Chattanooga with two ways out and two ways in.”