Student Guidelines
This space was created to grow community in Bay Ridge. Please bring your good energy and creative minds to this studio.
What is included in your Class:
- In-house glazes
- Firings
- Open Studio Access
Community Respect & Vibe:
Ovington Pottery is a safe and welcoming place for all people. Creative work often requires space to think, reflect and make. We ask that you allow others the chance to do that by limiting your amount of chatting, space consumption and technology use.
Glaze Use:
You are welcome to use our in-house glazes. Currently, we have 13 glazes of varying colors and sheens.
- You are welcome to use outside glazes as long as they are approved by Ovington Pottery.
- Please keep glazes covered when not in use. Water from the glaze buckets can evaporate or contaminate one another with splashes.
- Underglazes are not available for community use, please purchase your own if you would like to use them in the studio.
Firing :
We try to fire the kilns at least once a month, this can vary depending on the amount of work that the students make. If you have a deadline for your pieces, please let us know, we will most likely be able to fire them for your deadline.
Clay:
We use Laguna #40 Stoneware fired to Cone 6. You are welcome to use your own clay as long as you submit the information about the clay to Ovington Pottery before making your work.
Open Studio:
If a class is in session, Katie will be happy to answer any small questions but please realize that her attention needs to be focused on the students at hand. Open Studio should be self-guided and a time to develope on your own practice.
- Please be respectful of everyone’s time. If you book a session and are not going to show up - please email Katie. If you book a session and are going to be more than 15 minutes late - please email/text Katie.
- Please be mindful of when Open Studio ends or when your session ends. Begin cleaning up at least 20 minutes before the end of your session.
- We close Open Studio a half hour (8:00pm) before classes end in the evening to allow students in the class to be able to clean up appropriately. Please be mindful of the time you are to end your open studio session.
- Being mindful of time allows the maintenance of the studio to happen and allows schedules to run smoothly.
Cleanliness:
- Please be mindful of the cleanliness of the studio. As a participating member of the studio, you must clean your workstation and surrounding area.
- Please leave the studio cleaner than you found it and use a wet sponge at all times to tidy up dry clay.
- Please do not dry sand any work in the studio. You are welcome to do so outside.If scraping your piece, please do so over a bucket of water.
Phone use:
Please use this time to detach from digital life and immerse yourself in creativity. There is a study done that a disruption during a concentrated period of time can take you 23 minutes to get that focus back . If you need to take a phone call while others are in the studio, please move into the hallway or go outside to do so.
Our studio is quite intimate and is really the only place where your hands are too dirty to use your phone all the time. While I realize that people would like to take videos of them doing awesome things, I ask that you only film yourself. Please do not film while in class with other students or while other students/members are around during open studio hours.
Music:
You are welcome to use your headphones if other people are in the studio or connect to the speaker via bluetooth if you are the only one in the space.
Class Cancellation Polic & Refunds
Please notify us if you cannot make it to class. Since this is such a small studio, the students and Katie worry about you, if you do not show up. At this time, we do not have make up classes for Adults except for extenuating circumstances.
You can receive a refund for a class per the timeline below:
- 30 days before the start of class = 100% refund
- 14 days before the start of class = 50% refund
- less than 14 days before the start of class = credit for a different class
- less than 24 hours before the start of class = no refund
There are no refunds for classes already in session.
If a class does not fill sufficiently, we may cancel the class or lesson one week prior to the scheduled date.
Payment Policy:
We require payment on the first day of class via cash or cc.