Schedule:
Saturday, February 8th: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, February 9th 9th: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Tuesday, February 11th: 2:00 – 6:00 PM
Instructor: Community Led, Lead Studio Technician and Point of Contact Dan Clauson
Location: Kiln Shed
Ages: Adults
Skill Level: Upper Level / Advanced **This club has a pre-requisite course, Intro to Mid-Range Soda Firing Workshop**
Registration Fee: $125
You can view the full class syllabus for this workshop here.
About the class
Class Description:
Prerequisites to enroll in Soda Firing Club
The “Julia” Soda Firing Club is designed for folks looking for longterm use with our Soda Kiln, Julia. The club is led by Studio Monitors, and a Studio Technician but involves no formal instruction in soda firing processes. Without a formalized instructor, our Soda Club offers a more financially accessible way of having work soda-fired, without the need to retake our Intro to Soda Firing workshop courses. The Soda Club will run firings monthly or as often as desired and needed depending on participant interest. Unlike our Soda Firing Workshops, club firings will include no instruction on wadding, slips, glazes, or any lectures on the subject of soda firing. As such, participants must feel comfortable with the safety and care of the equipment, as well as loading, firing, and maintenance procedures surrounding the firing process.
Each participant gets 1 cubic foot of firing space.
(Tip; Make sure all your pots fit approximately into a milk crate which is 1 cubic foot of space).
This firing will be a reduction fired cone 6 with sprayed soda at the end.
Soda Club Schedule:
Saturday, 9am-5pm
9-12: slip and glaze bisqueware, wadd and kiln prep
12-1: break for lunch
1-4: load kiln
4-5: brick up kiln
5pm: light!
Sunday, 10am-6pm
10-4pm: Studio Technician and/or Studio Monitor will make adjustments on kiln throughout the day.
(Every hour, checking kiln and making adjustments)
5-6: spray soda, draw rings, shut down
Tuesday, 2pm-5pm
2-3: unload kiln
3-finished: proper maintenance and cleaning procedures for our precious Julia Soda kiln
RULES AND REGULATIONS
Participants must bring:
All participants must:
What sonoma ceramics will provide:
RECOMMENDED CLAY BODIES:
Sonoma ceramics has in stock a variety of cone 5 clay bodies. Here are some options that are tried and true for the soda firing:
Speckled Buff cone 5
Recycled
Red Velvet
B-mix cone 5
Nara cone 5
About the instructor
Lead Studio Technician
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