Our Equipment

Our equipment includes advanced tools like potter's wheels, slab rollers, and kilns, designed to enhance precision and creativity in pottery-making.

We have five potter’s wheels; four for throwing clay; one for use to form plaster molds.

No need to wedge clay to reuse clay and get air bubbles out; use our de-airing pug mill like Gracie does!

For precision glaze work on the wheel, use one of our Giffin Grips!

No more making coils like you did in grade school! Make coils, clay pipes, cannisters, even bowls using the pneumatic (compressed air driven) extruder like Bill is doing (and Janna is on our home page).

Another versatile piece of equipment is the slab roller; make slab vases or sculptures like Wendy does!

Bill & Wendy collaborated in making a small mold for her totems.

Bill & Lois collaborated in making the mold for the largest vessel in the studio: the Disk Vase.

Liquid clay is stored in the Collective’s slip pump and is available to create slip cast pieces in the molds we make at the Collective.

Gracie and Isaac show how they make tiles for sale at a local distributor. (They work fast, but not really this fast).

We have dozens of glazes to choose from and lots of techniques for applying them for creating attractive and unique effects!

Gracie demonstrates the use of the glaze booth; the way to create a controllable, precise application of glaze every time, but can also be used for wildly creative effects as well!

Our 23-cubit foot kiln easily handles even the largest creations.

No matter whether you make things for yourself, as gifts or for sale, you’ll want professional-grade photos of the work; use the Collective's in-house photo studio!

Here’s the sleeper: what happens when you want to ship your work? The Collective buys wrapping supplies at wholesale prices for the Collective’s use.