Lee Love on wed 3 feb 10
In Japan, they are really efficient at using small spaces. They
do a lot with ceiling hanging overhead racks. I've done the same
in my current garage studio, substituting 2X2s for bamboo, but when we
lived at the artists' cooperative, I made the same kinds of racks
over my throwing space that had legs instead of being overhanging.
Wheeled tables and racks are handy space savers too.
--
Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
=3D93Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel
the artistry moving through and be silent.=3D94 --Rumi
Roxanne Hunnicutt on wed 3 feb 10
BOY HERE IS A SUBJECT, that I would love to discuss!
HOW to use the space in a very small studio. What works for you?
And what to do in the winter when space is at a premium. I JUST SPREAD
OUTSIDE and into the garage in the summer!
Rox in OR
AND THE CAT LITTER BOX IS IN THE GARAGE!!!!!! Yuk. gotta cure for that
stinkey mess? We clean it constantly but have a diabetic cat. For those of
you who don't have one, it is even stinkier than a regular cat. And he has
injections twice a day!
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The man is only half himself, the other half is his
expression.
Steve Mills on wed 3 feb 10
I have a very small workshop/studio which started life as a garage for a
small (by UK standards in 1934) car. A few years back I extended it
sideways, almost, but not quite doubling its size. In this I have a 9 Cu Ft
Gas Kiln, a 2.5 Cu Ft Electric, 2 adjustable racks for pots in progress, a
cupboard for bisc, a slate wedging bench with small buckets of glaze under,
an old wringer converted into a small slab roller, a band saw, belt sander,
12 buckets of glazes stacked 3 high on casters, a table with a drill press
with clay stored under, tool cupboard, Shimpo Whisper and stool, galvanised
tank converted into a damp bin, a small wood stove that started life as a
Gas bottle, shelves on all walls that don't have windows - all full, a stac=
k
of plastic drawer units with raw materials in, and a woodworking bench in
the middle which doubles as a clay-glaze-hand building- what-have-you table=
.
The rain water fed sink is outside alongside the water tank and gas bottles
for the kiln.
I do everything one-at-a-time in sequence, and try (often unsuccessfully) t=
o
keep it tidy!
The trouble is, if I had a place twice THAT size it would STILL be full of
stuff!
Steve M
On 3 February 2010 20:57, Roxanne Hunnicutt wrote:
> BOY HERE IS A SUBJECT, that I would love to discuss!
>
> HOW to use the space in a very small studio. What works for you?
>
> And what to do in the winter when space is at a premium. I JUST SPREAD
> OUTSIDE and into the garage in the summer!
>
> Rox in OR
>
> AND THE CAT LITTER BOX IS IN THE GARAGE!!!!!! Yuk. gotta cure for that
> stinkey mess? We clean it constantly but have a diabetic cat. For those o=
f
> you who don't have one, it is even stinkier than a regular cat. And he ha=
s
> injections twice a day!
>
>
> --
> Ralph Waldo Emerson - The man is only half himself, the other half is his
> expression.
>
--
Steve
Bath
UK
www.mudslinger.me.uk
Phoenix Rising Farm on wed 3 feb 10
Roxanne:
The most under-utilized space in any studio is the space
OVER YOUR HEAD.
Look up. It's a whole new space. I first got the idea
from a catalog that showed a bicycle being hoisted
off the floor on ropes. Store it over the car in the garage
where it's out of the way, but easily retrieved.
You can do the same thing...a few pulleys, a few ropes,
maybe a few cleats to tie the ropes off to along the walls.
Now add in a few "platforms" of plywood, some plastic storage
totes...you can store an amazing amount of "stuff" overhead.
Most ceilings are 8 feet or better tall, and most of us are 6 feet or
shorter.
that leaves 2 cubic feet (more or less) for each square foot of studio
space.
So, for a 10X12 studio, that's 240 cubic feet of storage...that's a lot!
Even at one cubic foot per square foot of studio, 120 cubic feet is a space
the equivalent of a cube 4 foot wide, 5 foot deep, and 6 feet
tall...more than
a refrigerator carton.
I'm thinking...chucks, glaze chemicals, templates, texture mats,
reference books...
whatever you don't use on a daily basis. Just make sure your ceiling
attachments are secure, that you don't put _too_ much weight up there
for obvious reasons...what goes up must come down, right?
Best,
Wayne Seidl
eastern Maine
On 2/3/2010 3:57 PM, Roxanne Hunnicutt wrote:
> BOY HERE IS A SUBJECT, that I would love to discuss!
>
> HOW to use the space in a very small studio. What works for you?
>
> And what to do in the winter when space is at a premium. I JUST SPREAD
> OUTSIDE and into the garage in the summer!
>
> Rox in OR
>
> AND THE CAT LITTER BOX IS IN THE GARAGE!!!!!! Yuk. gotta cure for that
> stinkey mess? We clean it constantly but have a diabetic cat. For those o=
f
> you who don't have one, it is even stinkier than a regular cat. And he ha=
s
> injections twice a day!
>
>
> --
> Ralph Waldo Emerson - The man is only half himself, the other half is his
> expression.
>
>
steve graber on thu 4 feb 10
use the verticle volume.=3DA0 growing up, the mercer museum in bucks county=
p=3D
ennsy impressed=3DA0me with so much stuff hanging off the walls and from th=
e =3D
ceiling.=3DA0 my workshop is small - with all the stuff i have in it.=3DA0 =
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use the walls and ceiling=3DA0with devices hanging down and around.=3DA0 p=
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for me, if i don't see it, i forget i even have it much less where i might =
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have put it.=3DA0 =3D0A=3D0Aif you have otherwise blank walls, you can hang=
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there.=3DA0 =3D0A=3D0Aa shoe rack, cloth over the door kind, is on my door=
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ttery,=3D
Inc=3D0AClaremont, California USA=3D0AThe Steve Tool - for awesome texture=
on =3D
pots! =3D0Awww.graberspottery.com steve@graberspottery.com =3D0A=3D0A=3D0AO=
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Larry Kruzan on thu 4 feb 10
I am blessed with a very large studio now - but life was not always so. In
the beginning of Lost Creek Pottery, my "studio" was the old station keeper=
s
office in the rundown railroad depot I started with. The space was 12x10
feet with three 4'x4' windows of three side and a bathroom on the other -
the bathroom was 2'x4' - which is small by airline standards.
I placed my wheel looking at one window looking down the tracks and placed =
a
single ware cart one the right side. My little bailey pugmill sat on the
left side of the wheel. The pugmill was on a cart with a couple buckets
below that held recycled clay ready to pug.
My sole electric kiln, a Skutt KM-1027-3, was in the opposite corner from
the bathroom. Flanked by a small rack for the few precious shelves I owned
and posts.
"New" clay in boxes lined the walls where ever there was room for it.
My working method was simple, as I threw new green pots, they went on the
bottom shelf of my ware cart. As they dried I moved the shelves up the cart
as space allowed so that the pieces on the top were dry and ready to bisque
fire. Shortly after reaching the top these would be stacked in the kiln.
Each day I would start by moving all my pots - dry to the kiln, almost dry
to the top, leather hard to the middle - start fresh pots to fill the botto=
m
6 shelves.
The heat from the kiln in this small space then helped to finish drying all
the ware that was in the rack except for the bottom most shelves. This
allowed the kiln to be reloaded again right away with what the first firing
dried. Because I stacked the kiln very tightly for bisque firings, I would
normally get three or four glaze firings from two bisque firings.
This cycle took about two weeks in the beginning but as weather allowed I
could use the trackside side walk to stack pots on for drying. This allowed
me to speed up and make bigger pieces. If it started to rain I had to drag
them all in real quick. Bisqued pots were stacked on shelves that I mounted
on every wall, including the bathroom.
Glazing was a twice weekly event where I would glaze two or three loads in
one session based on the "best-fit" formula for the kiln - Tetris for
potters.
Between bisque and glaze firings, the kiln was heated up 4 to 5 times a
week. I always planned bisques firings so that I would be there through 400
degrees or so but went home before the fumes got too bad. When glaze firing
I usually started the kiln at the end of the day and left the studio - you
don't want to be there in close quarters during a firing.
After a year in business we could justify the expense of expanding with a
gas kiln and much larger studio added the little depot. It is very nice to
have this big studio and gallery but in some ways I do miss the "at-hand"
quality of working in those days but I really don't want to go back either.
Larry Kruzan
Lost Creek Pottery
www.lostcreekpottery.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Roxanne
Hunnicutt
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:57 PM
To: Clayart@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: no room in my small studio
BOY HERE IS A SUBJECT, that I would love to discuss!
HOW to use the space in a very small studio. What works for you?
And what to do in the winter when space is at a premium. I JUST SPREAD
OUTSIDE and into the garage in the summer!
Rox in OR
AND THE CAT LITTER BOX IS IN THE GARAGE!!!!!! Yuk. gotta cure for that
stinkey mess? We clean it constantly but have a diabetic cat. For those of
you who don't have one, it is even stinkier than a regular cat. And he has
injections twice a day!
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The man is only half himself, the other half is his
expression.
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Maggie Furtak on fri 5 feb 10
I spent 6 months in a very small space in a great group studio. I had one =
industrial steel bookshelf for all my storage of glazes, bats, clay, clay r=
ecycling, bisque, glazed but not fired, and greenware. I stopped making pl=
atters and large serving bowls except by special request and concentrated o=
n small items like mugs. I also concentrated on high-end time-intensive it=
ems. When I my shelves were too full to throw another pot, but things were=
n't dry enough to bisque all the leather hard cereal bowls would become sma=
ll berry bowls with holes and fancy handles. I added extra glaze decoratio=
n, while I waited for a kiln to free up for a glaze firing.
Conversely, when I was at a group studio where space, clay, and glaze were =
free in exchange for my work for the studio, it made sense to concentrate o=
n simpler production work and larger serving pieces and take advantage of t=
hat free clay and ample drying space for work in progress.
Now I have lots of space, but I am paying all my own expenses again so I ma=
ke a little of everything and try to pay attention to what folks are most i=
nterested in buying.
Back to the basement I go to finish the next batch of cereal bowls!
-Maggie Furtak
Pate Ceramics
pateceramics.etsy.com
pateceramics.blogspot.com
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