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

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1. QotW: Have you ever used alternative techniques in your throwing or handbuilding?

   By Pres, October 18, 2021
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   • Pyewackette
   • October 20, 2021

2. QotW: What effects have the Covid, and the Supply chain failures had on your production and delivery of your pottery?

   By Pres, September 28, 2021
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   • Min
   • October 20, 2021

3. QotW: Do you find that your learning about ceramics has moved toward more video use like Youtube or CLAYflicks or do you still find a good book viable as a means of learning?

   By Pres, October 11, 2021
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   • LeeU
   • October 15, 2021

4. 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

5. 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

6. Cannot find Ican page

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Unknown French potter

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. QotW: To wedge or not to wedge?

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