Junction Clay Club

10/05/2026

We are all caught up on glaze firings! Please pick up your pieces on Thursday this week.

We plan to do a bisque fire next (this Thursday).

Hope to see you there :)

06/18/2026

Come pick up your pottery pieces tonight at the school at 7:30pm. We are pausing Open Studio until mid August and want to leave the space neat and tidy for when we start up again.

06/06/2026

I *may* do an extra glaze firing on Monday this week since we won’t be able to use the kiln for a few months as of June 19.

Having said that-please indicate what glazes you used! We won’t fire anything that we don’t know what it is!

We had a couple of runners again at the last firing. Cookies are good but they take up extra space.

~Emma

06/06/2026

We had a successful glaze fire and the shelf is getting filled up with wares! Please pick up your pieces before we have to shut down until mid August :)

06/04/2026

Open Studio tomorrow at 7! We will do a glaze fire tomorrow night. The next two firings (June 11 & 18) will be bisque fires and then we have to unfortunately pause all firings until middle of August. Hoping to see you all tomorrow!

05/26/2026

Hi Clay Clubbers! We had a successful glaze fire last week so don’t forget to pick up your pieces this Thursday. Rumour has it there will be a bisque fire this week!

05/21/2026

Open Studio Tomorrow at 7 - we plan to do a glaze fire so if you have any pieces ready bring them out. Please remember to leave your name and details of the glazes used along with your pieces - thank you!🙏🏻

05/14/2026

Open Studio tonight at 7! Come and pick up your bisque wares. We won’t be doing a firing tonight - next one will be a glaze fire Thursday the 21st.

04/29/2026

Hi Potters,

We had a successful glaze fire yesterday, wahoo!!

While we actually don't have the new breaker yet, we figured out (thanks to someone else's accidental error) that we can "trick" this temperamental breaker into getting up to cone 5 temperature (about 2200 Fahrenheit) by using a different setting than what is typically recommended and the results are good!

Having said that we have also had a couple of mishaps where glazes did drip on the shelves, ooops! We don't know who all the offenders are (and this is by no means intended as finger pointing) we are all learning together, so let's be extra careful ---

For example:
- leave more room on the bottom rim than you think is needed
- never ever glaze the bottom
- read online about the behaviour of your glaze (does it run, how many coats are recommended?)
- put it on a 'cookie' (i.e. a broken piece of bisque ware, or make a small slab and bisque it for the purpose of glaze firing)

We plan to do another glaze fire on Thursday and expect to have a full load as not all the pieces got fired and some are still sitting by the kiln, but please bring a few to add to the load, this is exciting!

~Emma

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