• Members are able to bring guests to the studio provided the member and guest both sign a participation waiver and a guest fee is paid.

    Guest Waiver

    Guest Payment

  • Cookies are strongly encourage for your glazed pieces.  Members are responsible for making their own.  They protect the kiln shelf and offer the chance for your piece to survive in the event your glaze drips off your piece.  Below are the important things to remember when making and using kiln cookies

    • Cookie should be 1/4 thick and should be flat.  Dry cookies between drywall boards or other porous material so they dry flat.
      Cookie should be just bigger than the piece (1/4” to 3/8”) which means big enough to catch glaze drips but not oversized to waste kiln space. Pieces sitting on oversized cookies will not be fired.

    • To be effective cookie needs two thin coats of kiln wash otherwise it will fuse to your drips.  We have kiln wash in dry form in the glaze area.  Please mix a small amount according to the ratio listed on the container. Kiln wash can be applied to greenware or bisqueware.

    • Very small items can be consolidated on one cookie with 1/4” spacing between items. It’s a good idea to use glue to adhere your small items to the cookie so they are less likely to fall off cookie when loading the kiln.

    • Cookies should have no cracks, warping or bloating.  Damaged cookies could fail in the firing and damage work.
      If you use a high fire clay in making your cookies it will last through more firings but cone 6 clay is fine to use.

  • Reclaiming your own clay keeps it in your hands, saves you money and saves the studio a lot of work. Here’s how….

    Failed wheel projects: these pieces just need to be dried out a bit on the wedging table or a piece of cement board then wedge them up and they are as good as new.

    Scraps from handbuilding: don’t ball these up! It’s best to spray them or better yet dunk them in water and place in their own bag (keep your old clay bags for this). The scraps will rehydrate and be wedgable soon. If they are still too dry just add a little more water. If the scraps have gotten really dry during your making process then add to studio scrap bucket.

    Please remember…NO BIG BALLS OR WADS OF CLAY IN THE RECLAIM BUCKETS, THIS IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE STUDIO TECHS TO RECLAIM

  • Pieces are added to kilnfire when you are submitting a piece to be glaze fired. Only pieces that have been added will be fired. Go to kilnfire dashboard and click on “my pieces”. Enter piece name, photo, glaze notes and dimensions. If piece is larger than 10” in any direction you need to click on drop down menu for firing type and select glaze piece over 10”.‍ ‍If you have made multiples you can indicate that in quantity and same some time.