ATTENTION: Open Studio Booking & Policy Changes​

Starting on February 18th, 2025, we are making our Open Studio even BETTER for you! We’ve changed our policy and booking rates to make our Open Studio more accessible to our students and patrons, and more manageable for our staff.

 

Table space and the wheel during open studio are still bookable by the hour, with a one-hour minimum unless you have a Loyalty Card. If you have a Loyalty Card and would like to book a lesser amount of open studio time for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 45 minutes, please contact us. Tables will be available at a full-table rate and half-table rate.

 

To rent half a table for hand building or glazing, it will be our normal $20/hour rate. If no one else has booked the other half of the table you are working on, then you are welcome to spread out and use the entire space! Please be mindful of studio staff and other patrons while you do this. If there are many Open Studio participants, we will ask you to move your work to stay within your booked space.

 

If you would rather book an entire table for yourself to hand build or glaze, it will be at a $30/hour rate. If you prefer an entire table, please book two half tables online and it will say $40/hour, however, as it is not charged online you can ignore this for now. We will charge you the appropriate $30/hour table rate once you are finished for the day.

 

Tables and half-tables in the studio are not assigned by number and are filled on a first-come-first-serve basis. We always keep one table free for general studio and staff use. You are welcome to communicate with fellow Open Studio participants to make the most usage of tables and space, we just ask that you book your two participants for a single table at the same time to take advantage of our $30/hour full-table rate. 

 

If someone is accompanying you who hasn’t been to The Eccentric Artist Studio before, please sign them up for an Open Studio Orientation in advance of their first making session. Please note that any new policy does not change our skill requirement for Open Studio participation; it remains at taking our Level 1 course or having an equivalent level of experience. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

 

Greenhouse Policies:

Only student work is permitted in our greenhouse due to overcrowding and risk of Open Studio patrons damaging student work. Depending on whether you use the wheel or hand build, there are new policies that we are asking all our patrons to follow from now on. Please continue reading below for more information about how we will be drying pieces made during Open Studio starting February 18th, 2025.

 

Wheel Throwers:

• All wheel throwers' pieces go on the back shelves until trimmed, wrapped or not.

• Pieces cannot be kept on ware boards or bats; they must be on a wood board or plastic tray. If a piece must be left on a bat to slightly dry, it is allowed to dry on the bat for a maximum of 24 hours, where the maker must come back to wire it off.

• It is the maker's responsibility to manage the aftercare for their work.

  • wrapping, storing, monitoring dryness for trimming

• Your trimming date must be booked within one week of your making date, the most ideal is to book your trimming before you leave your making session.

• Pieces may sit for a maximum of two (2) weeks on the back shelves.

  • We will contact you as a “throw out warning” after two (2) weeks. You have 48hrs to reply or we will reclaim your piece(s).

• NO PLATE-MAKING ALLOWED, we simply do not have the studio space to accommodate drying or storing many plate-sized items.

• Pieces must have a clay passport FULLY filled out with all contact information, date, and clay type before you trim.  Once it is trimmed, you need a maker’s mark and your passport signed by the Studio Tech or your piece will not get fired.

• With this new booking policy, "WHEEL" bookings also have a half table for wedging/handles/etc. 

 

Hand Builders:

• A staff member must initial your clay passports before you leave the studio.

• Pieces must be put on the shelf on a ware board unwrapped, loosely covered, or on a plastic tray fully wrapped with a tag of which day staff can move it into the bisque queue. Either within 24 hours or 48 hours until unwrapped. Please note the take-out date on your tray tag.

• Pieces must have a clay passport FULLY filled out with all contact information, date, clay type, description and maker’s mark or your piece will not get fired.