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Hey folks, please read this post and like it once you’ve done so. In January, we will be increasing the membership subscription price by $9. Due to the increasing costs of our rent, supplies, and utilities we have to make this increase. Fortunately with our large group of community studio members we can keep this increase as low as possible for each of you. All other costs in the studio will remain the same at this time.

This increase is in effect for new memberships subscriptions now, but for all of our current members you will see an additional charge from our Stripe account starting in January. We’re able to give you these next two months without increase so you don’t get startled with a sudden change. If your card fails on your subscription in the next two months, you will need to repurchase your subscription at the new price…

Happy warm sunny Wednesday potters! I’ve got a list of announcements for you so take a minute to read through ☀️

1. A few summers ago we did a tie dye day where you could preorder a shirt designed by us and then we all dyed them together and we’d love to do that again in June! Probably around lunch time on a weekend day. But we want to creat a new design so I wanna know your ideas! Any pottery themed design is good, not necessarily with our logos large on it. Let me know your ideas in the comments and we’ll make a pile for scheduling next week.

2. Also in June we’re planning our Sidewalk Sale!!! This will be 10-3 on 6/29 with a rain date on 7/6. Send me a message if you want to sign up. This will not be a community table sale but instead a…

Bisque unloaded! We also have an exciting announcement to make: Pottery Mill will be exhibiting at the John Greenwald Gallery in downtown Lowell, and we would love to show off your stuff! The exhibition dates are from August 14 to September 8. We're looking for pottery suited to be in a gallery setting, which can mean things like high craftmanship, sculptural work, conceptual, and/or just visually pleasing to look at. If any of you have questions about what this means, please let me know! I love talking art and what art means in the contemporary world, and I would love to help any of you push your craft for a gallery setting. August is a long time from now!

Good morning potters hope you're enjoying a little more snow ❄️ Just a heads up tomorrow afternoon we'll be hosting a wheel workshop with 14 people so we'll be moving some wheels up into the wheel room at 2pm and also using the hand building room for glazing after that. Please plan your time in the studio accordingly as it'll be a busy afternoon!

Also I hope to have a great weekend at Lowell's Winterfest so come on by and check out the art market Friday night and Saturday!

Hi-hi-hi! It's me again, I'm back ^_^ Just a couple announcements:

1. Most of our wheel classes will now be in the Classroom instead of the Wheel room (except Tuesday Mornings & Wednesday Nights).

2. We have a few spots left for our community table at the Nashua YMCA! You should sign up! The holiday season's a great time to get stuff sold >:)

3. New standing wheel in the Private room

4. Glaze + mini bisque unloaded. Keep churning out those holiday gifts!

Hope to see y'all around ☺️

We have a whole bunch of holiday-ish updates for you guys!

1. The November community sale at the Nashua YMCA is coming up fast and we would love to have more of you sign up! Check out Jessica's previous post under the studio events tag to follow the steps to sign up. This is an amazing opportunity for members who have little inventory, or don’t want to take the full cost of a craft fair on their own yet.

2. It’s time to announce our fourth annual Pottery Mill pot swap! Here’s the link to sign up: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/c02fa016-ccf2-4d92-a161-52ea42ea70a7/?join=yzay. Please sign up before 11/18 and be ready to drop off your gift before the end of the year!

3. Instead of a shelf decorating contest this year, we will be doing a raffle for members who make an ornament to decorate. The small tree will have in the studio. Please feel free to make…

Internship Opportunity!

Hi everyone! I’ll be away for the month of October, so we’re looking for an intern to work at the studio for September + October. Below are some official details:

• Internship will run from 9/3 - 10/28 for a total of 8 weeks (but there's some leeway if needed).

• We’re asking for a commitment of 3-4 hours per week. We’d prefer if you came in every Sunday, but we’re flexible!

• Benefits include: A free bag of clay for every month worked, and free membership for the months of September + October.

• Some things you will be in charge of include: unloading/loading kilns, recycling clay, and general maintenance of the studio. This is a physical job that can require standing for periods of time.

Good afternoon everyone! Bisque-y unload-y'ed. And a little announcement is that we now offer a standing wheel. If you're susceptible to a bad back or just wanna try something new, you can find it in the private room next to the spray booth. Have a great Monday :)

Clean up day is only a few hours away! Hope to see you all there.

I have some floor maintenance to do in the bathroom starting this evening through Friday so we have a key to the bathroom out in the hallway. PLEASE DO NOT USE THE STUDIO BATHROOM until I have removed the signs this week.

Exciting news 🎉🎉🎉 we have two new pottery wheels! They are teal pacificas so we've added them to the wheel room and moved two black pacificas to the new room so we have a relatively cohesive set!

Except that one new wheel was damaged in shipping so please refrain from using that this week until a further update/it's fixed.

The one time workshops, and David's new Sunday night class will be held in the new room too!

Also David's shaved his head ✂️

Good afternoon everyone!