POTTERY STUDIO CONSULTING SERVICES

Lakeside Pottery's offers consulting services for schools, organizations and private studios helping them to set and maintain a professional pottery studio / school.

Areas we help with our consultation services are:

• Setting up a studio (location, studio flow, maintenance)
• Develop teaching curriculum
• Diversification of clay offerings (team building, parties, commission work and more)
• Cost effective advertising methods for you studio / school
• Technical information
  

• You want to cut production costs
  
• You want to lower loss rates
• You want to develop a glaze
  
• You want to become independent of "stock" clay bodies from suppliers
  
• You want to buy raw materials and clays from their source
  
• You want to develop a clay body for throwing, hand building, slip casting, ram pressing, or jiggering operations
  
• You want to develop a ceramic product
  
• You want to change a firing temperature, try reduction firing, oxidation firing, salt/soda firing, wood firing, Raku firing, pit firing, lusters, decals, or fuming
  
• Your glaze crawls, shivers, crazes, pinholes, blisters, dimples, runs, or just doesn't work
  
• your clay body fires too light, too dark, too absorbent, shrinks, cracks or just causes problems
  

References - places that used Lakeside Pottery's consulting services:

Private Studios:
www.sawmillpottery.com Owner: Dot Bernworth
www.firepitceramics.com Owner: Dave Klivans
www.potteryonhudson.com Owner: Linda Laghi-MacKenzi
www.paintedpot.com Owner: Lisa Meyer

Schools:
Bicultural Day School, Stamford
The Long Ridge School, Stamford
The Williams School, New London, CT
Waterside School, Stamford, CT

Starting An Art Business Lectures:
Stamford Chamber of Commerce
Norwalk CT Chamber of Commerce
NY/NJ Ceramic Supply, Lodi, NJ