Community Kiln

You heard it right, we’re registering for the fall already! 🍁🎃🤩 join us TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM to register for our fall classes at Community Kiln.

Interested in learning a new skill? 🤔🧮
Sharpening an old skill? 🎨🧘‍♀️
Making a community of friends? 👯‍♀️👯‍♂️

Try pottery! 🤩🏺Visit our website www.brickstack.org for more information on our individual classes

Hey! Check out these two-time wheel opportunities coming up in August 👀🏺 Come and get a taste for wheelthrowing without the commitment of signing up for a full class.

Ages 9-15 can come learn in the morning and ages 18th+ join us in the evening! Find more details and sign up on our website www.brickstack.org/workshops

Look at these beauties from our Underglaze Painting workshop 😍🎨 We had a little bit of drawing practice, a little bit of talk about color and a whole lot of fun!
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Interested in taking a workshop with us? Check out our August opportunities on our website! Link in our bio ✨🏺

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Happy first day of Summer classes 🥳🌟☀️😎🌞⛱️

To kick off our Summer semester (Summer 1 and 2) take a look at our Summer Bingo challenge. You may be enrolled in Summer 1, Summer 2 or both sessions in order to participate.

1. Pick up a Bingo card from the office and complete as many of the squares are you can from now until September 21st as you can 🏺🪴

2.Make sure to take pictures of your work that completes your Bingo tasks 📸

3. Submit your Bingo card and images when you’re finished to [email protected] 💻📲

A random winner will be pulled on September 22nd and they will receive a free bag of clay 🪴 Make sure to send us progress photos for a chance to be featured on our Instagram 📸

Do you want to learn more about observational drawing/painting 🧐✍️? Want to brush up on your painting skills🎨? Have an affinity for underglaze?👨‍🎨🖼️ Then this sounds like a great workshop for you!

Join instructor Natalie on Friday, July 12th from 6-9PM and learn the skill of painting on underglaze. This workshop will include practicing drawing from observation, creating an underglaze color chart and understanding the basics of painting. All skills can be transferred into your personal practice 🪴🎨🖌️

Check out these awesome pronoun pins in the making, and join us on June 19th from 12-2PM to make your very own 💖 Customize your pins any way that you’d like to by stamping, carving, painting or cutting out your designs 🎨🖌️

12-2PM make pronoun pins with instructor Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Come color, design, carve, stamp and cut out your own pronoun pins. Admission for children under 8 is free, and children under 8 must be accompanied by a registered adult over 18. Open to LGBTQ+ identifying people and allies. Ages 3+

Register at wwwbrickstack.org by June 10th for our special rates! All discounts will be applied after registration. Groups must register at the same time for discounts to be applied ✍️🧑‍💻
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June means Pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 Play with clay on June 19th with two different activities.

12-2 make pronoun pins with instructor Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Come color, design, carve, stamp and cut out your own pronoun pins. Admission for children under 8 is free, and children under 8 must be accompanied by a registered adult over 18. Open to LGBTQ+ identifying people and allies. Ages 3+

2-4 make fairy houses and garden critters with instructor Zen 🧚‍♀️🦄🐉 Make some Summer garden friends and fairy houses using handbuilding techniques. Enjoy a safe space of LGBTQ+ people and relax with some calming clay projects. Open to LGBTQ+ identifying people only, allies we’ll see you from 12-2 😉 Ages 10+

Register at wwwbrickstack.org by June 10th for our special rates! All discounts will be applied after registration. Groups must register at the same time for discounts to be applied ✍️🧑‍💻
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Finding it hard to navigate through our enrollment website? 🤨👩‍💻 ⁉️ Check out this helpful graphic that shows you everything you need to know about registering for a class or workshop 📋🪴 and don’t forget, registration for Summer Two is THIS Saturday, June 1st at 9AM ☀️😎

Step 1️⃣: Visit out website www.brickstack.org

Step 2️⃣: On the top of the page visit the “Adult Classes” page to view all of the class options we are offering for the current session.

Step 3️⃣: On the top of the page either click the “New Student” button to create an account or “Student Login” if you are returning

Step 4️⃣: For returning students:enter your log in information to take you to the home page. Click on “Find Classes” to sign up for the next session, workshops and more!

Step 5️⃣: Filter your results to only show the next session by clicking on the filter button and then sort by “Session.” Click your desired session to see results. Remember, enrollment after 2 classes is not permitted, so do not enroll in past classes.

Step 6️⃣: Select your desired class and who you would like to enroll in the class. Read and check off all policies and then click “Add to Cart.”

Step 7️⃣: Either “Continue Shopping” for other classes or “Checkout Now” to complete your transaction and enrollment. 🧚‍♀️Note- adding something to your cart does NOT mean you are enrolled or your spot is saved.

Step 8️⃣: Once in your shopping cart, review your enrollment details and click “Accept Enrollment Fees and Continue” to complete enrollment

Step 9️⃣: Check your email for enrollment confirmation. You can also confirm by visiting your dashboard and looking at “My Classes.” You will receive email confirmation and additional student details from Community Kiln about 1 week before your class.

Step 🔟: Sit back and relax for now! We’ll see you in a bit

Check out these crystals 👀🔮🌟 we’re getting ready to finish up our 3 part crystalline glaze workshop and these beautiful pieces came out of our test kiln! Our instructor, Marc, has perfected his Cone 6 crystal recipe with the help of David LaPierre. Each vessel is unique in its application and zinc crystal bursts 💥
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Art is everywhere! Some very talented, young artists from joined us to make these beautiful mug creations ☕️🌟🌈

Interested in pottery? Come take a summer course at Community Kiln! These sessions are 5 weeks long and a great time to sample everything ceramics has to offer.

View our full program descriptions and read more at www.brickstack.org

Join us for some snail fun on April 20th from 10-1pm. 🐌🪴

Register now and get 50% off a second registration, that means you can bring two friends for the price of one! Discounts will be applied after registration, so have no fear if things aren’t looking right. Ages 12 and up are welcome. This is the perfect event for parents and children!

Register through our website www.brickstack.org

Did you see it?! Check out this beautiful view of the from our studio in Framingham, MA
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📸 from student Jenny Ge

Instructor David LaPierre showing the members of the Ceramics club how to Raku fire. We love seeing Community Kiln members coming out to support the pottery community. Thank you to everyone who attended today
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Interested in alternative firing methods? Check out our Crystalline workshop opportunity with our first session coming up in April! 🔮✨

How can it be April already?! Spring 2024 students join us in the studio during any of our open studio times for this semester 🏺🪴 we are so excited to see what you create!

Curious about crystalline? Sign up for our three part workshop where you’ll have the opportunity to glaze with 3 different crystalline glazes! Sign up in our bio 🤩🔮💎⭐️

Today is the last day of our Winter 2024 open studios! If you are a student of the Winter 2024 session, come on in from 10-1pm to soak up the last studio time of the semester.
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Beautiful bowls made by Sunhee and vase by Maddy, two of our lovely Winter students 🫶🏻❄️

Is there a better way to celebrate the first day of spring than with a garden critters workshop?! 🌿🐌 Join us on April 20th from 10-1PM to make some ceramic garden snails, or maybe a garden mouse or two (you decide!) Sign up through our website, link in our bio

That’s right! Please remember to clean your tools and equipment after each use to keep them nice and sparkling for everyone else. Love deep cleaning? Come join our studio clean on Monday, March 25th from 1-4PM ⭐️🧽🫧

Those pesky March leprechauns must have edited our studio hours while we weren’t looking! Here are our March studio hours before the end of our Winter 2024 session. March 31st is the start of the Spring 2024 session so make sure you’re registered for that! And don’t forget to look for leprechaun typos this month ☘️

Hey! Hands off‼️If you see our new glaze boards going up don’t touch them yet‼️⚠️ They’re waiting to be labeled and can cause mass confusion if you start to take them down and mix them around. HUGE shout out 🗣️ to our volunteers who made these tiles possible 💗💗

We’re so happy to be back from winter break-
Now come get your bisque! 🪴

What have we been up to the past month?! Well, now that you ask we made, labeled and sorted 441 white tiles, 441 brown tiles and 21 speckled tiles, removed all of our old tiles and nails, sanded, painted and re-gridded 3 boards and we’re finally ready for YOU to come help us glaze tomorrow! Current students- come on down to help with our test tile glazing, tomorrow from 11-3:30. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Registration for the Spring 2024 term is now live 🥳 sign up through our website, link in bio!

Interested in ceramics but can’t make a whole session? Try out our kid’s and adult wheelthrowing workshops coming up in February! Sign up through our website www.brickstack.org 🤓💗

Our youth classes are doing some amazing work on these cold days. 🌿🌸 Spring can’t come soon enough! Register for kid’s clay and other classes on February 17th at 9AM.

Can’t wait for that? Register now for our February wheelthrowing workshops. We’re offering a kid’s wheel and adult session! More information on our website www.brickstack.org 🤓🌟

Have you heard the news? Registration for Spring 2024 classes starts February 17th at 9AM! You’re not going to want to miss this, spots move fast. Please bear with us while we update our website to reflect the new start dates for the Spring 2024 semester. Classes begin March 31st and run for 10 weeks for adult classes, 8 weeks for kids/teen classes 🪴🏺

💖💗💐 Thank you to all our teens who showed up to our clay date on Saturday! 🥰❣️💓 What kind of workshops would you like to see from us in the future? 🔮

We’re pleased to offer a selection of and for sale at the Community Kiln! Come shop a selection of our instructors’ favorite tools. Feeling lost? Just ask! You can’t go wrong with any of these.

We also have pre-owned tools for sale on a rotating basis so come by and check them out 🖌️🏺

The rumors are true! We are now accepting a selection of commercial glazes to be fired in our kilns. Read some of our helpful tips below

•View the selection of glazes we’re accepting in the studio or by following the week code to our spreadsheet
•Read more about commercial glazes in our January newsletter
•You can read and sign the updated policies in your student portal
•Note our policies and procedures about commercial glazes before you begin! Please note that improper usage will result in further projects not being fired