Participation Guidelines & Liability Release
Green River Pottery participation guidelines
Fall 2026
Welcome to the studio! We are glad you are signing up for a pottery class, or for independent work in our ‘A3’ studio. Please read our participation guidelines. By purchasing a class registration or studio time, you are giving your explicit acknowledgement that you have read, understand, and agree to these guidelines. Green River Pottery reserves the right to expel anybody at any time who we feel is not making a good faith effort to follow them.
The guidelines will be updated occasionally - please check them over every month or two to review changes.
1 Our studio is small, and designed more for teaching & learning than for production. If you have a well-developed studio practice, or mostly need space & equipment rental, a larger studio with a quicker kiln turnaround may be a better fit. Santa Fe has many options.
2 Some students & studio users have commented that their time at Green River is the only opportunity in their week to be ‘off duty,’ to keep to themselves & concentrate on creative work. We want the workspace to be an oasis. Please mostly concentrate on your own work rather than lengthy conversation.
Along with your quiet focused attention, we prefer a fragrance free environment when possible, since we’re in small rooms doing physical work, & wanting to minimize our impact on others.
3 It is fine to drop by the studio briefly without signing up on the Worktime Calendar, to check if the kiln has been unloaded, to wrap or unwrap your work, etc. Otherwise, signup is necessary. Please keep attention to your arrival & departure time. Chronic early arrival or late departure, or arriving for worktime without first signing up on the calendar, is unfair to others & a violation of our guidelines.
4 No pets please.
5 Please do not touch other peoples' work if they’re not around.
6 If you'd like to bring a friend or family member by the studio, great - please check ahead of time & wait for a response from Theo (might take a day or two) before proceeding.
7 The studio is not able to store work when you’re away or after your class ends. Always fine to sign up a couple extra times after your 8-week class to finish your glazing. Please communicate with us about your unfinished work! We dislike having to discard pots, tools, aprons, notebooks, jars of underglaze, left on shelves when you depart without updating us.
8 In cases when you’ll be absent from your class, fine to email your teacher, as this helps with our planning, though it is not required. We do not offer makeup sessions for missed weekly classes.
9 Self reliance & respect for privacy are the core values that guide our studio. Welcoming others, and their differences, being adaptable, modulating what you’re doing so you can work with and around others, using common sense, are all virtues we greatly appreciate. We are fortunate to have the group of studio users involved that we have, and we treasure our time in the studio, and each other, and the common pursuit - each in our own way - of beauty in ceramics.
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2. Green River Pottery Liability Release & Assumption of Risk
Fall 2024
1 Being in a pottery studio may expose you to health risks and risks of bodily harm. Participating at Green River Pottery may expose you to crystalline silica dust. This and other ceramic materials, such as highly refined metal oxides and other materials of the ceramic process, may cause permanent damage to your health over the long term.
2 During your participation at the studio you may be in the proximity of, or may be asked to, or decide to, interact with the kilns, clay mixer, pugmill, or other powerful machines. These machines can cause bodily harm. By signing up for a class, or for studio access, or by entering into a work trade, or by assuming a role such as student, intern, resident, instructor, teacher, production crew, or any other role involving use of the studio and its materials & machinery, you assume full responsibility for the health risks & risks of bodily harm that may result from your participation.
3 Assumption of Risk: I hereby waive, release, and discharge any and all claims and damages for personal injury, death, or property damage which I, or my minor children, may sustain or which may occur as a result of my own participation, or that of my minor children, with Green River Pottery LLC.
4 I further understand and agree that this release is intended to discharge in advance Green River Pottery LLC, its owners, officers, employees, contractors, directors, agents and successors from and against any and all liability, except for their sole negligence or intentional acts, connected in any way with my participation or my minor children’s participation in Green River Pottery LLC activities. Such activities may be of a hazardous, strenuous, and physical nature, may cause injuries, and participation in said activities may result in injury, death or property damage. Knowing the risk involved, nevertheless, I voluntarily request permission for myself or my minor child to participate in said activities.
5 I hereby assume any and all risks of injury, death or property damage and release and hold harmless Green River Pottery LLC, its officers, employees, contractors & agents, except for their sole negligence or intentional acts.
6 This waiver, release, and assumption of risk, is binding on me and my heirs and assigns. I will indemnify and hold Green River Pottery LLC harmless from any loss, liability, damage, cost or expense, including litigation, which it may incur as a result of any injury or property damage which myself or my minor children may sustain while participating in said activities.
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