What You Need to Know

 
 

IN GENERAL:

When you sign up for a four-week session, we ask that you complete your four classes within five weeks.  If during your four weeks you decide you want to keep going, you may extend your session for another consecutive four weeks for just $150 (rather than another 225.00). Also, if you are going to miss more than two weeks in a row, please let us know so we don’t assume you have left the class. If you do not attend your class in any given week, but do use Open Studio time on the following weekend, that Open Studio time will count as a class.

Eight week classes run consecutively, so if you miss a week, you can’t make it up by adding it at the end of the eight weeks. You can however, make it up within the session by taking advantage of Open Studio time, or coming in during another class time.

*Please note that Lancaster Clay Studios is not a production studio and production work is not allowed. Students and studio artists who produce a disproportionate amount of work will receive a warning and be charged accordingly. Those who continue excessive production will be kindly asked to find another studio.

Your first day of class:

Please bring a large towel, or apron, and a small bucket to class. If you do not own your own pottery tools, we have an assortment of used basic pottery tools which you may borrow. You may of course bring your own tools (but do have your name or an identifying mark on each tool).

Each student will receive clay and one storage shelf. Please do not store any valuables on your shelf. If your work exceeds your shelf space, we will find extra space which you may use temporarily.

Last but not least:

If you are not returning for the following session of classes, please clean off your shelf and take your work, tools and leftover clay home with you on your last day of class. Anything left behind on your shelf will be discarded before the next term begins. Fired bisque and glaze work will be discarded two weeks into the next term.

All work should be bone dry by the Friday before your last scheduled class so that it can be bisque fired in time for you to glaze during your last class. We will then glaze fire it for you and you will be notified when it’s ready to pick up. Work not picked up within two weeks of that notification will be discarded.

If you need to complete work after the last day of your class, you may do so for the following fees:

  • Trimming — $10 per hour ($10 minimum)

  • Bisque Firing — 05¢ per cubic inch ($5 minimum per piece)

  • Glazing — $35 per hour

  • Glaze Firing — 10¢ per cubic inch ($5 minimum per piece)