Founded:
2021
Language(s):
English
Duration:
1-4 weeks, 1-3 months
3-6 weeks

The full residency fee is $300 a week without work exchange. Resident artists can work up to 7.5 hours a week at $20 an hour towards their residency fee. With full work exchange hours, residents will owe $150 a week for the residency fee. Residents are expected to pay their expected residency fee in full upon or prior to their arrival.

Covered by residency fee:
reclaim clay
firings within reason
glaze
private apartment
24 hour studio access and shelf to store work

Not covered by residency fee:
boxed clay
large amounts of raw materials

Application deadline:
Currently closed
Applications for 2024 are closed
Open call:
no
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Ceramics School

Ceramics School

Ceramics School Artist Residency
Ceramics School AiR, USA
Ceramics School AiR, USA
Ceramics School AiR, USA
Description

Ceramics School is a community art school and artist residency program located in Hamtramck, MI - a two square mile city surrounded by the city of Detroit. Their classes, memberships, residencies, studio access, and public programs offer a safe, supportive, critical, and communal platform for art making and education.

The residency offers an intimate and immersive opportunity - inviting artists to share and grow their creative practices with our community and within the physical and cultural landscape of Hamtramck/Detroit. Residents have 24 hour access to the studio, reclaim clay, glaze and firing, and stay in the first floor of the house attached to Ceramics School which is a fully furnished apartment with a beautiful mosaic tile bathroom, a kitchen, on suite laundry, and a small private office/2D studio. All work spaces in Ceramic School’s studio are shared by members, students and residents alike, but residents have additional space to store their materials and works in-process.

Outcome

It is an independent, unstructured residency, meaning they don’t have any specific expectations about what the residents make. Residents are welcome and encouraged to join for any or all of their scheduled programming while they’re here including classes and studio events. Residents are expected to participate in Ceramic School’s community and to be open and engaged with our students, members and visitors. They work with our residents to coordinate some form of presentation while they’re here: workshop, exhibition, artist talk, etc.

Accommodation Information

Ceramics School is located in a storefront connected to a three story row house, the first floor of which is a private fully furnished 650 sq ft one-bedroom apartment for the visiting artist residents. Virginia and Henry who own and run Ceramics School live on the 2nd and 3rd floor with their two small friendly dogs and two moderately friendly cats. The residency apartment has a bedroom with a queen sized bed, a bathroom with a walk in shower, a full kitchen, a living room, a drawing/painting/office room and a laundry closet. The apartment is cozy, sweet and full of ceramics. The side yard has a vegetable garden in warm months, a fire pit and a small wood-fired kiln. Resident artists are welcome to bring a partner and/or children, but no pets. The residency apartment is not wheelchair accessible due to 5 stairs.

They recommend you bring a car if you have access to one, which you can park in the gated yard. If you do not have a car they are happy to pick you up at the train station/airport and there is a residency bike you can use while you are here.

In general residents are responsible for their own food. The apartment has a fully equipped kitchen that should have everything you need to cook with and there are many grocery stores in the area, some within a short bike ride. We will provide a document with local grocery stores and other resources upon arrival. The organisers (Henry and Virginia) plan on sharing some meals together with the residents.

Studio Information

The residency includes 24 hour access to Ceramic School’s studio. They have reclaim clay that residents can use for free if they process it - otherwise they sell a variety of boxed clay bodies. Studio glazes are included, bisque and glaze firings are included when within the community firings, and independent/specialty firings are half the price of their standard firing rates.

They have a fully equipt glaze lab to which residents have limited access to for making glaze and clay tests; for large batches of glaze and clay, residents pay for materials. As an educational space with a sustainable ethos they encourage ideas, experimentation and expression, over branding and production. They are a small studio and all work space is communal and shared between students, members, staff and residents. The organisers are happy to do all they can to facilitate the resident’s artwork within reason.

Technical Information

Ceramics School Facilities:

  • Resident artists are provided a 6’ x 4’ x 18” shelving unit
  • Members are provided a 16” x 2’ x 2’ shelf
  • Students are provided a 16” x 2’ x 18” shelf
  • All additional space in the studio is communal space.

Wheels:

  • 8 Shimpo whisper pottery wheels
  • 2 Treadle wheels
  • 1 Kick wheel

Kilns:

  • 1 Bailey 27 x 27 x 27 electric kiln
  • 1 Bailey 41 x 31 x 27 electric kiln
  • 18 cubic feet Wood Kiln

Glazes / Clay:

  • 19 cone 6 glazes in 5 gallon buckets
  • Underglazes (if you will be using large amounts, please bring your own)
  • Oxides, wax resist, brushes
  • Resident artists may have access to our glaze lab (material costs not included in residency fee.)
  • 5 different cone 6 clays are available for purchase


Space:

  • ADA studio access
  • ADA bathroom
  • Two 3.5’ x 7’ communal wooden tables
  • Art book library, record player/bluetooth/aux, parakeets, coffee and tea shelf with cups, disco ball
  • Two small friendly dogs (Petunia and Bear)
  • Two singing Parakeets
  • Outdoor space in the warmer months for processing clay, working with plaster, anything messy!

Tools:

  • Rolling pins
  • Ware boards
  • Plaster slabs
  • Plastic
  • Communal tools (needle tools, sponges, brushes, ribs, etc.)
  • Extruder
  • Slab roller
Contact information
Email
CeramicsSchool [at] gmail.com
Phone
989-600-2467
Website
https://www.ceramicsschool.com/