Int'l Ceramic Artists Network (ICAN) Operations and Benefits

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1. QotW: When using your programmable kiln, do you use preset schedules or set your own custom schedules? 

   By Pres, October 3, 2021   

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   • Chilly
   • October 7, 2021

2. QotW: What things do you do that would be Old School, and what do you do that would be considered Embracing the Future?

   By Pres, September 5, 2021
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   • Lucia Matos
   • October 5, 2021

3. Cannot find Ican page

   By Kkelln, September 26, 2021
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   • LeeU
   • September 26, 2021

4. QotW: What is your predominant method of decorating the greenware, and how do you deal with this decoration in your glazing?

   By Pres, September 20, 2021   

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   • Denice
   • September 22, 2021

5. QotW: What have you noticed in the rise in prices for materials over the last 20 years?

   By Pres, August 12, 2021
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   • neilestrick
   • September 20, 2021

6. QotW: Are you planning to add any new glaze colors to your palette of colors?

   By Pres, September 13, 2021
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   • Angelique
   • September 20, 2021

7. QotW: What best habit would you recommend to a beginner setting up their studio?

   By Pres, August 30, 2021
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   • Hulk
   • September 5, 2021

8. QotW:What studio habits do you have that others have warned against?

   By Pres, February 21, 2021
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   • graybeard
   • August 29, 2021

9. Unknown French potter

   By mess1959, June 14, 2021
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   • PeterH
   • August 28, 2021

10. QotW: Would you be willing to participate in a kiln space rental that would bring in a little extra cash, and supply a service to potters without a kiln in your area, and if so why? 

    By Pres, August 22, 2021
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    • Callie Beller Diesel
    • August 24, 2021

11. QotW: How did you arrive at your present place in your pottery, by a focused approach, and experimental approach, or other direction?

    By Pres, August 1, 2021
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    • MadMetal
    • August 11, 2021

12. QotW:  How do you feed yourself when working art shows or festivals?

    By Pres, July 18, 2021
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    • LeeU
    • August 4, 2021

13. QotW: What is your first and second most expensive equipment expense? 

    By Pres, June 14, 2021
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    • MadMetal
    • July 27, 2021

14. QotW: Attitude being everything; how do you deal with customers that cross a line of sorts, and have you ever denied service to someone?

    By Pres, July 26, 2021
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    • Mark C.
    • July 27, 2021

15. QotW: Do you participate in any open studio tours, kiln openings, or other events allowing visitors to your studio/shop?

    By Pres, July 4, 2021
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    • LeeU
    • July 13, 2021

16. QotW: Are you dealing with any supply chain issues, or seeing creeping material prices that have or may cause you to raise prices?

    By Pres, July 11, 2021
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    • Hulk
    • July 12, 2021

17. QotW: Does the weather interfere with your production/exploration of Ceramics?

    By Pres, June 29, 2021
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    • JohnnyK
    • June 30, 2021

18. QotW: What piece of equipment that you do not have will be your next addition within the next year?

    By Pres, June 21, 2021
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    • Denice
    • June 27, 2021

19. QotW: Whether hand building or throwing, assembling or decorating, do you stand or sit?

    By Pres, June 9, 2021
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    • Chilly
    • June 11, 2021

20. QotW: When looking for Ceramics related reading material, do you look for technique\, guided process, aesthetic, or historic related reading?

    By Pres, May 30, 2021
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    • Denice
    • May 31, 2021

21. QotW: Does your stacking determine the items in the load, or does your load determine the stacking?

    By Pres, May 24, 2021
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    • Russ
    • May 26, 2021

22. QotW: To wedge or not to wedge?

    By Pres, May 15, 2021
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    • oldlady
    • May 17, 2021

23. QotW: Earthenware or mid range Stoneware, What is your preference and why?

    By Pres, May 3, 2021
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    • LeeU
    • May 14, 2021

24. QotW:Electric or gas reduction firing at any cone you choose, which is more work overall and at what stage of the pot making is it more work than the other? Also, is firing one way more enjoyable than the other?

    By Pres, April 18, 2021
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    • Chilly
    • April 21, 2021

25. QotW: Do you protect your kiln floor with a kiln shelf to start your shelf build, and if so do you use a full or pair of 1/2 shelves?

    By Pres, April 11, 2021
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    • Chilly
    • April 13, 2021