How clay, firing, glazes, and shared studio tools work at Firebox—including what adult, youth, family, large-format, and specialist courses include.

Eight Brent wheels have arrived, the clay is here, and the wedging tables are underway. Take a look at the visible—and behind-the-scenes—work bringing Firebox closer to opening.

Before choosing Firebox’s opening clay bodies, we asked our instructors which materials have worked best in their studios and classrooms. Their experience is helping us assemble a thoughtful selection for wheel throwing, handbuilding, sculpture, and surface exploration—and test how each clay performs with our Cone 6 glaze palette.

Firebox is converting a media studio into a ceramics studio, and that means some renovations are needed.

Firebox will have nine Shimpo VL-Whispers and eight Brent CXCs. Here’s how potter preferences, torque, and the studio’s electrical system shaped the decision.

Take a room-by-room look inside Firebox Pottery Studio, a 3,800-square-foot ceramics studio opening in Belmont, MA, with dedicated spaces for classes, memberships, events, glazing, reclaim, firing, and finished work.

Firebox is more than a studio

Making Decisions for a sustainable studio

Firebox Pottery Studio has a home

Firebox began with a simple problem: serious makers needed more access, more room, and fewer constraints.