Caine Stednitz
St Kilda,VIC
Summary
Proactive student of the medium across 6 years with an ongoing passion to provide knowledge, encouragement and desire to learn all aspects of ceramics. To be a figure in the ceramics community and help provide a welcoming and enlightening atmosphere that encourages others around to pursue and test the disciplines of the medium of clay while testing self and learning more of proper use in a ceramics studio
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Studio Technician
Twelve80
08.2023 - Current
- Seek out and make needed glazes along with formulating and creating inventory lists for needed ingredients
- Managing overall tidiness of the studio (mopping,vacuuming and wiping down counters and sinks)
- Creating lists of necessary tasks that are within the studio needs
- Loading/unloading kilns along with creating kiln schedules and needed maintenance
- Customer service and providing thorough answers for studio members and visitors
- Making test tiles and any needed vessels for studio via handbuilding and wheel throwing
- Trimming and glazing student pieces
- Maintaining student works to make sure they are at proper dry stage to be worked on
- Reclaiming clay via pug machine and putting clay on slabs to dry to desired state
Wheel Throwing Teacher/Studio Technician
Diana Ceramics
12.2022 - Current
- Providing instructions, insight and tips for course students and one time students for wheel throwing classes
- Reclaiming clay via wedging and maintaining clay bins
- Organizing student works once done and creating a clean and easy to find pick up area
- Training new staff to studio and providing information on how to properly run the studio at its easiest
- Watching and working on studio cleanliness
- Covering and maintaining student pieces throughout the week to ensure course student pieces are at proper state to work on
- Making salad bowls for studio classes
- Collaborating new ideas for new one off classes
- Trimming and glazing one time student works
Pottery Apprentince
Inspire Pottery Studio (Joel Hildebrandt)
03.2018 - 12.2020
- Formulate glazes proper to kilns (reduction,wood,raku)
- Maintaining studio cleanliness throughout the day
- Help build wood kiln when moving and help maintain raku kiln when firing
- Help with reclaiming clay with pugmill and monitoring slabs filled with clay
- Organize and contribute to tidying up studio for galleries and other formal events
- Trim student pieces and glaze
- Collect big clay orders and help bring in bulk amounts of clay
- Assist teacher with classes and provide insight and tips to students
- Work in the front of store section of studio and direct customers to desired pieces and help put commissions through the website
- Collect orders
Education
Associate of Arts - Addiction Studies
Reading Area Community Center
Reading, PA, USA06.2014
High School Diploma -
Wilson High School
West Lawn, PA, USA06.2011
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Website Maintenance
- Intuitive Thinking of Priorities
- Social Perceptiveness
- Skilled in Maintenance and Organization
- Maintaining Clean Work Areas
- Station Preparation
- Attentive to Detail
- Material Inventory
- Proper Equipment Usage
- Excellent Reasoning Skills
Timeline
Studio Technician
Twelve80
08.2023 - Current
Wheel Throwing Teacher/Studio Technician
Diana Ceramics
12.2022 - Current
Pottery Apprentince
Inspire Pottery Studio (Joel Hildebrandt)
03.2018 - 12.2020
Associate of Arts - Addiction Studies
Reading Area Community Center
High School Diploma -
Wilson High School
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