Is This Relaxing Craft the Hottest Hobby in Hollywood?

She showed off a small set of plates she made, and later, a sculpture of a camel that sits on her wet bar. “I think I love clay work because, first off, you’re working with earth material and I feel grounded afterwards…It’s also really meditative and kind of hypnotic. There’s really no right or wrong. You don’t have to be good. Even the mistakes look really great,” she said.

Tennis legend Serena Williams shared a snapshot of herself behind the wheel in 2019, with the caption “I’m really getting into pottery.” Two years later, The Loudest Voice star Naomi Watts tried her hand at it, sharing a video of herself doing pottery on Instagram and tagging the popular account @tortus, a Copenhagen-based ceramicist named Eric Landon whose clay videos are incredibly popular. Laura Harrier once told Elle she has a wheel at home and gives her creations as gifts.

For some, it is a relaxing hobby—“It’s like yoga, if you got a thing at the end,” said Rogen. For others, it has become a profession. Carey Lowell, who found fame in the late ’80s and early ’90s with roles in movies like Licence to Kill and Sleepless in Seattle, left her role on Law & Order to pursue ceramics full-time and now has her own line.

Rajiv Surendra—you know him as Kevin G. from Mean Girls—is an apprentice with Guy Wolff, a Connecticut-based artisan whose flowerpots are favored by Martha Stewart. “I read about him in Martha’s magazine and was determined to learn from him so I begged him to let me come, and visit and the rest is history,” said Surendra, a chalk artist and multipotentialite who wears handwoven suits and sleeps on a handmade horsehair mattress, while giving a tour of his New York City apartment to HGTV Handmade’s YouTube channel.