🎨 Paint Your Own Pottery in Wellesley, MA. The Painting Place is a family-owned creative studio offering pottery painting, candle making, slime, gem mining, birthday parties, field trips, scout events, and summer art programs. Serving Wellesley, Needham, Newton, Natick, Weston, and the greater Boston area since 2000.

 

The Painting Place is a drop-in art studio,

and premier party place all in one! 
At The Painitng Place, anyone can paint pottery, plaster or canvas, mine for gems or make a candle. 
Staff members are always on hand to help with a project, plan a party or answer any other questions you may have.
 
Owner Samara Helfman has always loved children.

A graduate of Pine Manor College with a degree in child psychology,

Samara taught nursery school for several years.

Though she enjoyed her work, she wanted to open her own business.

The Painting was born in 2000,

and has been building memories ever since! 
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