MIY CERAMICS, LLC
PEMBROKE PINES, FLORIDA

MIY Ceramics Studio and Leaning Center is an open studio. We provide open access studio to people looking for a place to practice their skills without having to set up a costly home studio. Currently we have 25 full time studio members. We also teach pottery, glass fusing, lampworking. painting and mosaic classes, host day of fun studio parties an team building evens. We also teach Boy Scouts pottery merit badge classes, run ceramics summer camps, slump glass bottles, offer kiln firing services, sell clay, glass supplies and tools and restore artwork, We are a unique playground for clay and glass enthusiasts, recreational potters and artists of all skill levels who come to use our studio facilities to make, learn play with and shop for pottery, mosaic, dichroic glass jewelry and artwork. The main room of our 2500 sq. feet studio is an open air conditioned space outfitted with 15 electric pottery wheels, a Peter Pugger clay pug-mill machine, several workstations for pottery hand building and glazing, concrete wedging tables, a 2×4 ft clay slab roller, a 4 inch extruder, an environment friendly special sink for recycling clay, 8 electric kilns and counting! We also have a variety of tools and molds available for use or purchase. The well ventilated kiln and green ware area, separated from our main room, has direct access to a fenced yard which is used for glazing and clay reclamation. We offer a wide range of clay bodies and glazes (commercially and studio made), different firing methods, crates for personal tools and ample space for work in progress, bisque ware and exhibition of finished pieces. Join our studio facilities using one of the access plans below. The other half of the building houses our pottery handbuilding glass lampworking, paint your own pottery areas t property mosaic making areas. As beneficial as our plans might be, you will get the greatest value from the relationships you establish with our other members. They are a lively group of down-to-earth people from all walks of life with mixed backgrounds, skills and talents. Some are new to ceramics, others proficient artists. All are resourceful, always willing to give you a helping hand should you get stuck in the mud. They all have a common passion for making pottery artwork and love sharing it with other members. Come and join them anytime! MIY Ceramics | Glass Fusing | Mosaic and Paint Art Studio Origins When Fire and Mud Pottery Studio closed in 2006, all the members were distressed since this was their passion and the only open pottery studio in South Florida. After some initial crying and screaming, and a crash course on how to license a business, the members came up with a plan and opened a new studio on April 2007 in a nearby location. We have managed to successfully recreated the magic of the old studio and have added glass fusing. lampworking/flameworking, paint your own ceramics, mosaics, and glass painting. To reflect the new arts and crafts additions, our name is now MIY Ceramics and Glass Studio. By the way, MIY stands for Make It Yourself!!!! We are again having fun playing with brand new equipment and gizmos in a bigger and nicer facility. It has been one heck of a ride! While the precise origins of glass fusing techniques are not known with certainty, there is archaeological evidence that the Egyptians were familiar with techniques ca. 2000 BCE. Although this date is generally accepted by researchers, some historians argue that the earliest fusing techniques were first developed by the Romans, who were much more prolific glassworkers. Fusing was the primary method of making small glass objects for approximately 2,000 years, until the development of the glass blowpipe. Glassblowing largely supplanted fusing due to its greater efficiency and utility. LAMPWORKING also known as Bead Making and Flamework Historically lampworking comes from people working glass in the flame of an oil lamp. The glass blowers would blow into the flame(adding air and oxygen to it) to get it hotter and hotter so that it would melt or soften glass for them to manipulate and sculpt it. We don’t know exactly where and when this art form started since the term lampworking has been loosely defined in history but records that Moreno glass was used in lampworking techniques in the 14th century. Galileo Galilee was known “artist and inventor” created large apparatus’s to as foot operated bellows to add even more oxygen to the flames to get it hotter. Maybe this was what he used so that he could manipulate the glass to create some of hissed effect has been achieved at the maximum desired temperature, the kiln temperature will be brought down quickly through the temperature range of 1,099 °F to 1,501 °F to avoid devitrification. The glass is then allowed to cool slowly over a specified time, soaking at specified temperature ranges which are essential to the annealing process. This prevents uneven cooling and breakage and produces a strong finished product. This cooling takes place normally for a period of 10–12 hours in 3 stages. While the precise origins of glass fusing techniques are not known with certainty, there is archaeological evidence that the Egyptians were familiar with techniques ca. 2000 BCE. Although this date is generally accepted by researchers, some historians argue that the earliest fusing techniques were first developed by the Romans, who were much more prolific glassworkers. Fusing was the primary method of making small glass objects for approximately 2,000 years, until the development of the glass blowpipe. Glassblowing largely supplanted fusing due to its greater efficiency and utility. While glass working in general enjoyed a revival during the Renaissance, fusing wasmost renowned inventions like the 30x magnification telescope (or spyglass) or his lovely glass ball thermometer that still artfully graces many homes for its beautiful design and functionality. While glass working in general enjoyed a revival during the Renaissance, fusing was largely ignored during this period. Fusing began to regain popularity in the early part of the 20th century, particularly in the U.S. during the 1960s.