About Café au Clay












A History Lesson

Café au Clay by Masque Powers is the brightest, most colorful new kid on the block of Oak and Joliet streets in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans. A ceramic art studio, pottery paint place, and the production studio of New Orleans’ famous Masque Powers masque, it’s a half day outing you and your friends and family will treasure.

Learn the magic of slip casting and the process of glazing as you watch Masque Powers transform clay into streaming color. Then choose your own ceramic pieces to paint.

We fire up imaginations with stories of rainbow dinosaurs and polka dot fairies. Of snakes and spiders that can outrace pickup trucks and motorcycles.

We encourage a dinnerware set that features more splatters than a ketchup bottle gone wrong.

We lovingly imprint tiny hands and feet on to plates that will be dated and treasured for life.

And we give you tips and all the help you want along the way.

It’s fun, zany, and like no other paint place you’ve been to before. It is the arty, party pottery paint place of New Orleans.

Girls Night Out Gets Creative!

5 p.m. on Thursdays. Girls, make your way from work to Café au Clay for some FUN!!! BYO cocktail in hand; you’ll choose a pottery piece from the practical (e.g., mug) to the lyrical (e.g., high heel cell phone holder). Get some serious and some not-so-serious tips from Café au Clay artists, and have something more than just a hangover to mark your girl’s night out.





The Most Unforgettable Birthday Parties EVER!!!

At Café au Clay you get more than any other party venue!

We offer more than the dozen great birthday themes.

More than kids get to take home something precious that they painted.

It’s more than what they learned about slip casting and kilns.

It’s more than the giant Birthday Card decorated and signed by all the guests. . . .

It’s much, much more than a price tag starting at only $125 for 8 kids. (The most economical party in New Orleans!)

It’s the arty, party ceramic paint place birthday where you don’t have to clean up!