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• Members who are 16+ years old can use the space unsupervised. 
• People 12+ years old must be directly supervised by their accompanying adult during the visit. I thought the rule was 13-16 must have a parent with them.
• Teachers can decide if they will teach under 16 or not at their their discretion. 
• DMS-wide age restrictions supersede committee rules.

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• In-Progress
• Greenware to be fired - items are fired to bisque
• Glaze to be fired
• Needs Attention
• Finished glaze and bisque work

In-Progress Shelves

• Bats/wareboards ware boards must be be labeled with name/initials/mark and datewhen the piece was thrown/created. 
  • Use masking tape and the sharpie provided on the in-progress shelves to label your pieces. 
  • It’s safest to add 2 labels if the piece is covered (one on the bat/wareboard and one on the covering of your piece).
• Unlabeled pieces are considered abandoned and will be disposed of.
• Pieces can remain on bats for a maximum of one week before being moved onto ware boards.
  • If you need to change the label, do not change the date. Use the same label and date as the original label’s date
  - labels
  • Labels must be transferred from bats to ware boards.
• Pieces on labeled ware boards will be disposed of 21 days after the labeled date.
• If your piece is not dry within the 21 days, you should take it home to dry.
  • If your piece is large/odd/some special situation where this isn’t feasible please
  post on Talk 
  • send a message on Talk to @Team_Ceramics
• Ware boards should be cleaned after you use them and put back in the correct space at our storage table.

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• Ensure your pieces are completely dry before placing them on this shelf. This shelf is not for drying, but for immediate firing.
• Wet pieces (or pieces we suspect may be wet) will be placed on the Needs Attention shelf.
  • Moisture in pieces may cause them to explode in the kiln damaging other members' pieces.
  • Kiln team is not responsible if your piece blows up when fired. 

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Glazed Items to be Fired

Where you place glazed/re-glazed pieces that need to be fired/re-fired. 

• Ensure your pieces are completely dry before placing them on this shelf. This shelf is not for drying, but for immediate firing.
• Anything out of the ordinary should have a note communicating what you are doing for the kiln team. 
• If your piece is taking too long to dry and you need to go, use a heat gun to carefully dry the glaze. This may cause the glaze to dry with cracks or flake off, so use this sparingly. 
• Wet pieces, or pieces we suspect may be wet, will be moved to the need’s attention shelf.
• You must follow the rules for glazing covered in the Orientation class, providing your own cookie if you have glaze lower than ¼ inch from the bottom of the piece. 
• All posted or stilted items require you to provide your own cookie for firing.

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This  is where you will find items the Kiln team feels might be questionable, or does not adhere to the firing shelf rules. This might be but not limited to:

•  glaze issue/questionGlaze issues or questions from the Kiln Team
• The item is not bone dry so , and is not ready for kiln firing
• Non-allowed Prohibited materials are in your piece, e.g. organic materials (leaves, grass, paper, etc.) 

Shelf Use Time 

All pieces on the 'In-Progress' Shelves much have label with creation/thrown date and some identifying mark of the maker.
As a community space, and we have to make sure there is room for everybody’s latest work, so we have strict shelf use rules.

Pieces drying on DMS bats can only be on the shelf for 7 days, pieces on plastic bats for more than 7 days will be discarded.

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• Clean up the slab roller after use by wiping the surface with a damp (not too wet) sponge to remove any dust, clumps, or smudges.
• Reset the height of the roller to 1 inch. 
• Leave the canvases on the slab roller table, wet side open so they can dry.
• Use the side of the canvas marked DARK or LIGHT for rolling the color of clay you’re working with on both sides. 
• Do not cut anything or use metal tools on the table’s canvas or rolling canvases. These can tear and snag the canvas. 
• If the canvases get super dirty, post on Talk, or wash it yourself with a sponge and cold water only. 

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