Ceramics Studios
Hand building - Slip casting - Wheel Throwing
7 am - 12 midnight
Ceramics Bench Room
Double Ground (145 Hooper St)
Rm. D144
The Ceramic Program studios are open to students who are currently enrolled in a Ceramics class, Ceramics majors, or graduate students. Students must attend a general orientation before using any Ceramics studio space.
For graduate students or upper-division project access, please contact the studio manager. This access will be granted depending on studio capacity. We cannot provide new student access after week 5 of the semester.
About the Ceramics Studios
The CCA Ceramics department studios are located on the first floor of the Double Ground Building, in San Francisco.
The Ceramics General Studio
Located in room D144, this studio is a shared workspace and facilitates beginner and intermediate classes. This room is also available for limited individual projects with approval from the Ceramics Studio manager.
Features:
- ceramics work tables
- pottery wheels
- slab roller
- extruder
- general clay and non-clay tools
- clay storage
The Ceramics Glaze room
Located in D144B, this is a shared workspace with essentials for for glazing, glaze formulation, and other hazardous-material handling. Students are allowed limited access after attending the studio orientation, but must attend an additional glaze room orientation to use any equipment or materials stored in this room.
Features:
- glaze material storage
- spray booth
- glazing tables
The Ceramics Kiln room
Located in D146, this room houses our electric and gas kilns. Only advanced students are allowed in this room after attending a kiln room information session. Students who have not attended this session, do not have Ceramics Studio manager approval, or are not accompanied by faculty are not allowed in this space.
Equipment in D146:
- Blauuw gas kiln
- Skutt electric kilns
- Bailey electric kilns
- Laguna gas kiln
Specializing in These Materials
- Ceramic
- Clay
Tools and Equipment
- BLAAUW Gas Kiln: State-of-the-art fully automated computerized remote-control kiln
- 9 computerized electric Skutt kilns of various sizes
- RIOCH digital ceramic decal printer
- 3D clay printing area:2 Potterbot clay printers, Bailey MXT25 SS Pugger, and connecting computers
- 12 brent EX (150-pound capacity) pottery wheels
- Bailey MXT125T mixer/pugger
- 2 Cink glaze rinsing stations: self-contained to properly capture and remove hazardous waste
- Two brent slab rollers
- North Star and Bailey Extruders
- Casting molds of various objects, shapes, and sizes
Resources
ORIENTATION DATES
All Ceramic studio spaces are open only to those who have completed a studio orientation with in the current semester.
Orientations will be given during class in the second week of the semester. Any student that misses the in class orientation will be required to attend one of the make up orientations on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Wednesdays of the semester.
Individual orientations can be given under certain circumstances, but no orientations will be given after the 5th week of the semester.
For more information about how to use the ceramics studio, please contact the studio manager.
Before attending an open orientation, please fill out a project proposal form which is linked below.
https://forms.gle/X7utAtmSJREsh9GfA