Online workshop: Start a Pottery Business

 
You
fell in love with ceramics as a hobby, spent years honing you skills
and now you are ready to build your own successful ceramics business.
It’s easy
to build a successful ceramics business in the beginning. There are few
barriers to entry, startup expenses are modest and you can often sell
your work with little initial effort. The problems begin when your
friends and family have exhausted their immediate need for pottery.
Running a
profitable pottery business requires both sound business skills and a
high-quality, desirable product line. You have to understand what makes
your products unique, and create a plan for creating and selling them at
scale. This three-day live online workshop is designed to help you
build a successful business designing, producing and selling ceramics.
We have
brought together three successful ceramic artists to give you an inside
look at how they built their businesses. They will share some of the
insights and strategies that made them successful, and answer any
questions you have about building your own ceramics business. The
program will include one-hour live streamed sessions with Lisa Jones of Pigeontoe Ceramics, Peter Sheldon + Ellen Woglom of Sheldon Ceramics and Lorna Meaden of Lorna Meaden Pottery.
Here are some of the topics we will explore:
– Honing your style and designing products that sell
– Developing a retail business & selling wholesale
– Building a brand & getting press for your work
– Building an audience & selling ceramics online
– Social media for ceramic artists
– Selling in galleries

call for entry: Upcoming events @ Clay Arts Vegas

 
Las
Vegas Nevada’s Clay Arts Vegas is pleased to host “WHAT GOES BUMP IN
THE NIGHT 2016” a national juried art exhibition, June 30 – August 28, 2016
in the Victor F. Keen Gallery, at Clay Arts Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“WHAT GOES BUMP IN THE NIGHT 2016” will feature works created from
mostly (80%) ceramic. Work should focus on the scary, bizarre, creepy,
eerie, dark, unexplained and frightening; Work can be sculptural or
functional.
 
Application Deadline: August 26, 2016
. Participation is open to all artists 18 years of age or older living
in the United States and Canada. Work submitted must be original, must
use clay as the primary material, must specify firing technique(s) and
size, and must have been completed within the last 2 years.
 
Jurors:
Robert Lawarre III
First Prize $300
Second Prize $100
Prospectus:

The
cup maybe the most intimate of ceramic objects. We caress it in our
hands, raise it to our delicate lips and imbibe the fluid of life. Be
part of our first juried show of 2017 and have your cup seen in Las
Vegas. Tall, small,tea bowl or handle each cup is a work of art created
to entice the soul of the drinker. Guest Juror is Nolan Baumgartner with
CAV’s Peter Jakubowski. Entries need to be received by 12/16/2016. Best of show cash award $200. Show runs February 2 till 26 2017. entry Fee $35 for up to 3 entries $10 additional entries up to five total www.clayartsvegas.com for prospectus application and payment
Juror Nolan Baumgartner
First Prize $200

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      CLASSES | GALLERY | CERAMIC SUPPLIES
                            702-375-4147
            1511 S Main Street | Las Vegas | NV | 89104
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