Grow roots in our supportive community of ceramic artists by establishing your own private workspace ? a space that has the room for your wheel, a table, shelving, display, and storage. Just imagine? a space where you can leave work in progress out! Private Studio Members have the option of selling work directly from their studio and also participating in studio wide sales events. Benefits include the use of communal equipment, such as spray booths, slab rollers, extruders, and other equipment. Enjoy the comfort of a private workspace; accessible 24 hours a day, nestled within an active and supportive community.

Private studios require a 1-year lease, with the last month?s rent as deposit. If you would like to be on the waiting list for private studios, please submit 5 slides of your work and a statement of intent to Tara Dawley, Studio Manager. If you?d like a private studio and it is not currently available, you might consider shared studio in the interim.

Cost: $175 - 230 a month, with a 1-year lease

Shared Studio is available 365 days a year, from 9AM ? 10PM, for $90 per month. With our 3-month lease, it is the perfect solution for someone who needs studio access without a long-term commitment. Benefits include use of potters wheels, spray booths, slab rollers, extruder, and all other equipment in the studio. Shared studio membership comes with a small private storage space.

Cost: $95 a month w/ a 3-month lease

All Red Star Studios members have the opportunity to purchase firing packages which allow them to bisque fire, use our studio glazes, and to fire their work in our 70 cu. ft. Geil gas fired reduction kiln or in our 18 cu. ft. soda kiln. Members also receive a 10% discount on classes and workshops.

In effect November 1, 2006

The following packages are available for all private and shared studio members at Red Star Studios.

All classes at Red Star Studios come with a 2 pot per week firing allowance. Students will receive coupons at the beginning of their class to place in their pots after they are glazed. If you are completing more than 2 pots a week you might want to consider purchasing a firing package.

PACKAGE #    |	TOTAL CUBIC INCHES    |	COST    |	COST PER CUBIC INCH
1	1,000	$35.00	$0.035
2	3,000	$90.00	$0.03
3	8,000	$190.00	$0.024
4	15,000	$270.00	$0.018

Anyone who fires a complete stack of their own pottery must be responsible for loading, unloading, and cleaning up of their mess. Loading and unloading must be done on a timely basis as scheduled by our Artist-In-Residence. If you buy stacks regularly, you can share 1 stack with another member, but the person who signs up is responsible for payment and loading ? if you buy 2 stacks you cannot sell off 1 just to get the lower rate.

Each firing package includes the cost of both bisque and glaze firing and the use of studio glazes. All charges are based on the use of our cone 10 gas reduction kiln. All pots must have a permanent mark or signature that identifies the potter.

Each pot on the shelf to be glaze fired should have either a class coupon or a firing slip, with name, dimensions, and total cubic inches, enclosed. You must measure each pot and include a slip or it won?t be fired! No exceptions!! All slips must include height, width, and depth measurements.

All firing must be paid for in advance. Payment must be made when scheduling a stack. We will keep a notebook with a sheet for each person who has paid for firing. As we load the kiln, we will transfer the cubic inches for each pot into the notebook.

- To figure cubic inches take H x W x D. You can use fractions of an inch. A pot 6? x 4? x5? would be 120 cu. in. A pot 12? x 8? x 8? would be 768 cu. in.

- Plates or tiles under 3? in height are to be figured at 3? unless stacked on your own plate setters. If fired on plate setters, the whole stack should be measured as a unit. This surcharge covers the extra time, shelf wear and tear, and fuel cost of firing plates.

- There will be a $5 fee for every glaze run that reaches the kiln shelves. In extreme cases of glaze running we will asses the fee on an individual basis!

- Red Star Studios is a large studio and our soda kiln is small. It has limited capacity and it requires much more effort, energy, and time to fire. Anyone who wants to do a significant amount of work in this kiln must plan far in advance and understand that it will cost significantly more than firing in the Geil reduction kiln.

- When firing with coupons, the soda kiln requires either 2 student coupons, or double the cubic inch measurements when using a firing package.

- We recommend limiting the number of bowls or plates fired in the soda kiln, as they are likely to collect debris as it moves through the kiln.