Glaze is a community pottery studio in the old Fernwood Creamery. Six-week classes, one-night dates, and, for the hooked, a shelf of your own and a key to the door.
Every class includes clay, all twelve house glazes, firing, and a teacher who remembers your name. Classes cap at ten, so nobody ever shares a wheel.
Centering, pulling a wall, trimming a foot, and your first glaze. We go slow on purpose. By week three most people have a bowl they would eat cereal from.
Taller cylinders, lids that actually fit, a matched set of four, and a real introduction to glaze chemistry with Teo. Bring the questions Wheel 1 left you with.
No wheel, no rush. Pinch, coil, and slab, with templates for plates and an afternoon on surface: sgraffito, slip, and texture from whatever is in your pockets.
Two wheels side by side, one teacher, and a lot of laughing at each other. Bring a bottle if you like; we have glasses. We glaze your pieces in a color you pick before you leave.
A key to the building, a shelf with your name on it, and a wheel whenever you want one.
Membership is capped at forty so there is always a free wheel. We are full right now. The waitlist has eleven names on it and moves about four a month; we email in order, and you get a week to say yes.
Join the waitlist
Two electric kilns: a 7 cubic foot front-loader and a 10 cubic foot top-loader. We bisque to cone 04 and glaze to cone 6, oxidation only, and price by the shelf so you pay for the space you use and nothing else.
| Space | Firing | Price | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half shelf | Bisque, cone 04 | $18 | 4 to 5 days |
| Full shelf | Bisque, cone 04 | $32 | 4 to 5 days |
| Half shelf | Glaze, cone 6 | $24 | 6 to 7 days |
| Full shelf | Glaze, cone 6 | $42 | 6 to 7 days |
| Whole front-loader | Bisque or glaze, cone 04 to 6 | $220 | By arrangement |
| Test tiles, up to ten | Any firing | $6 | Next load |
A shelf is 12 by 24 inches with 9 inches of height; anything taller takes two shelf slots. Work must be bone dry and made from a cone 6 body you can name. Drop off at the front desk during staffed hours and initial the foot of every piece. Members get their first full shelf each month included.
Everyone who teaches here also makes here. Their work is on the shop shelf, their test tiles are on the wall, and at least one of them is usually at a wheel when you walk in.
"Teo can look at a bucket of glaze and tell you what is wrong with it. None of us know how."
Teo Abara runs the glaze lab and teaches Wheel 2. He mixes all twelve house glazes from scratch, keeps the test-tile wall in order, and teaches the chemistry plainly enough that you stop guessing and start choosing.
One rotating shelf by the front desk: pieces by the teaching artists and a few members. All stoneware or porcelain, fired to cone 6, food safe, dishwasher fine. Buy at the desk during staffed hours, or email and we will hold a piece for a week.
Ines Marlow. 12 oz, pulled handle, speckled buff under a pooled celadon that breaks pale at the rim.
Teo Abara. Fits a size 2 paper filter, sits on any mug. Black glaze that goes rust where it thins.
Priya Venkataraman. 10.5 inch slab plates with a soft rim, oatmeal glaze, unglazed feet.
Marcus Oyelaran. 8 inches tall, a lid that seats with a click, grey-green ash glaze running to the foot.
Hana Kobayashi. 5 oz, thin enough to see light through, clear glaze over a carved line at the lip.
Ruth Feldman. 11 inches across, coil built, a shino that blushes orange where the flame found it.
"The wheel does not care what kind of week you had. That is the whole point of it."
Ines Marlow, founder
Classes run weekday evenings and Saturday mornings, so open studio is quietest on weekday afternoons. We close the last week of December to put new elements in both kilns.
Glaze
41 Creamery Lane
Fernwood
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The brick building with the milk-bottle mural. The door is under the loading dock awning; ring the bell if it is locked.
Twenty free spaces in the gravel lot behind the building, never full on a weeknight. A bike rack by the door. The 14 bus stops at Creamery and Dale, two minutes on foot.
Loading a kiln's worth of work? Pull up to the dock and we will bring a cart out.
Call (555) 555-0141
or write to hello@glaze.example
Phone during staffed hours only. Email gets a reply by the next morning, kiln permitting.