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

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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Unknown French potter

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. QotW: To wedge or not to wedge?

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. QotW: Do you schedule maintenance activities in the studio or have a non structured format for maintenance?

    By Pres, March 31, 2021
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    • Pres
    • April 6, 2021

22. QotW: Now that Spring is on the way what will be your first task in the studio?

    By Pres, March 20, 2021
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    • LinR
    • March 31, 2021

23. QotW is What, How or When did you become interested enough in ceramics to decide that you would be making pieces some way the rest of your life?

    By Pres, March 8, 2021
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    • moh
    • March 16, 2021

24. QotW: How do you motivate yourself to be a doer rather than a dreamer? 

    By Pres, February 28, 2021
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    • Pres
    • March 2, 2021

25. "What studio habits/practices do you remain committed to that most other potters do not practice?"

    By Pres, February 17, 2021   

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    • Denice
    • February 22, 2021