Studio Work Space
Have you ever wished Anchorage had a place you could go to where you can make hand-thrown pottery? Maybe you have clay experience from another place but no equipment with you, but you want to continue working with clay. Where can you go? Such a place is too much of a struggle for one person to create (though, I've been trying), so your help is needed to create such a space.
After three and half years of managing & teaching classes, producing functional pottery to sell, and doing all that entails, it's time to re-focus & change directions. If you are interested in developing your pottery making skills and can help put energy into running a shared studio, please contact us sooner than later, because later, we may not exist.
LONG-TERM RESIDENT COMMUNITY STUDIO POTTERS DESIRED:
Community Studio Space is available for $500/month in a 1,000 s.f. warehouse; Includes studio equipment (kilns may require extra payment for usage) & tools usage, a bathroom, hot water & utilities, web site inclusion, ordering of supplies, involvement in building Anchorage's clay arts community and other benefits. Kiln costs depend on usage amount and size of clayworks. Glazes are not included, but a lab fee arrangement can be made. The sharing of studio care, cleaning, costs of cleaning supplies & paper products, maintenance, marketing, sales, and business growth expected. Other details to be determined as needed. The Midnight Potter Studios is a community minded, non-smoking, fragrance & pet-free environment due to allergy awareness.
The Midnight Potter Studios offers opportunities for gaining clay art teaching experience to community studio potters who offer classes or workshops for adults and/or kids at the studio.
The studio has 6 electric wheels, shelving for works in progress, wedging table, plaster slabs for drying slop clay, a few molds, hand building tools, heated floor with a water trough floor drain, two raku kilns, cone 06 - 6 digital electric kilns, 2 extruders, Pugmill, HEPA vacuum, mop bucket, cone 06 to cone 10 clay for sale on site and other various clay types, cone 6 glaze spraying equipment, slab roller, throwing & trimming tools, two Giffen Grips, recycled clay & glaze systems, cubby space for students in classes, espresso and sandwich shop nearby. The primary clay color in use is white (cone 6). Soon, we will start exploring with cone 8 porcelain with electric fired glazes
This studio does not currently have a cone 10-12 gas kiln, wood-fired kiln, or clay waste traps, but we are doing fine without them for the time being. If you are interested in helping provide or create such items, please contact us.
Studio potters benefits may include selling their works in associated galleries, web site, and hosting shows and other selling opportunities.
Community Studio Potters will help establish, participate in and abide by the studio's Policies.
Community Studio Potters are team builders, outgoing, extroverted, creators of all kinds of things, energetic, positive, friendly, honest & trustworthy, flexible, responsible, sharing, willing to do what needs to be done to make art ventures happen, independently capable, mature enough, mentally sound, supportive and supported, financially capable of covering needs, conscious and detail oriented, aware of consequences and actions toward others and effects on equipment, community minded and community building, has ability to organize, be organized, & has consistent methods of madness, able to clean up after themselves daily to the Nth degree, and are able to commit to the time it takes to be involved in every aspect of the business of clay art creation and sales. A college degree is not required, but may be helpful.
To apply, come to the studio or send an email, providing samples or photos of the clay work you do, a resume or artist bio. Be prepared to discuss your background, education, clay experience, business experience, motives & intent, goals, length of stay, mission statements, community building experience, habits, personalitly quirks, life & work ethics, and future visions.