We suggest a minimum of 3 courses/around 30 hours of tuition for ceramics.. If you have already had tuition at other venues in the past and feel ready for a membership, we politely ask that you still complete 12 hours of tuition with us at Globe Arts so that our team can see which stage you are at, and so you are familiar with our team, facilities and buildings., for any of our Membership areas.

If you are still relatively new to the area you are buying a membership for, after 3 courses, we recommend that you still come to some tutored sessions to build skills. When you feel confident in a skill or a project that you have learned with us on a course, you can repeat those skills on your own, in your membership access time.

There is no tuition in the membership time slots; our technician is around to help keep people safe, show you where things are in the studio, help you get projects on your shelf/trolley etc, and put your pieces through the kilns.

They are not there to cut your glass or centre your clay or show you techniques, etc. You must have a basic knowledge of the area you are working in.

Building your skills with our tutors will lead to you building your confidence!

Important notes about personal practice for Print Making

To ensure safe use of equipment and for you to get the most from your print membership, a ‘Print Membership Studio Test’ must be completed before you begin your personal practice.

Studio tests have a one-off fee of £20, and gives you an hour of 1:1 time with our technician to ensure you are confident, get to know you, explain safe use of equipment and gives you the opportunity to ask any questions.

To ensure you are confident in printmaking so that you can get the most from your print membership, we ask that you have received tuition from one of our courses before beginning personal practice. The requirements are…

-              Minimum of 14 hours using the printing press for lino and etching (if wishing to explore printmaking techniques requiring the printing press)

-              Minimum of 14 hours in the screenprint studio (if wishing to explore screenprinting)

We recommend members start their subscription as close to the 1st of each month as possible. This way, we can track your hours per month much easier.

Memberships should be purchased as close as possible to the 1st of the month.

You can book your free induction in the days running upto your membership start date - we have these on Mondays and Wednesdays towards the end of each month, so that you are ready to go on the 1st of the month!

Find the induction type necessary for your membership, on our booking system here.

Our Globee technician Lauren, will run several of these, monthly, on Monday and Wednesdays. These are currently set at the end of a month, during daytimes and evenings, and these are free- as part of your membership.

If you are definitely starting a membership subscription with us - you can book a free induction before you’ve paid us a penny!

This way- you are prepared, know the building, have seen our studio space and kit, and can start on your project as soon as possible!

Visit our booking system here

You can book upto 10 x 2 hour slots per month, you must book your slot at least 1 hour in advance - so our technicians have an up to date fire register in case of emergencies.

If you need to cancel, please do this ASAP, as we may have people on a waiting list for that time slot.

We encourage everyone to have a tool kit - plyers, breakers, cutting tool, apron, goggles, FFP3 mask etc. (and we will sell starter kits in the shop for anyone who wishes to purchase one on your INDUCTION)

When it comes to the supplies for creating the art (clay/ tekta/ frit etc) we would much prefer for you to buy your supplies from our shop, which will be on site. (You can bring your own if you use one of our listed suppliers, and can show us your receipt)

This isn't so that we can charge more, it is so that we can guarantee the quality of the materials and we know that what is going in our kiln, or being handled in our studio- is safe.

There are lots of websites claiming to be selling genuine copper foil or COE 90 glass or glazes for stoneware - but if 1 purchase made online has been missed to you, and is an inferior quality to our materials- it could compromise every other piece of work in the kiln, or the the health and safety of others, our staff etc.

With all supplies coming from businesses we work with, if something does go wrong - we can act on it immediately, by going to the source, and get any issue resolved ourselves.

Our suppliers are;

Warm Glass

Glass Studio Supplies

CTM Potters Supplies

YPO

We have a supplies shop, where you can purchase materials to use in your chosen membership area.

We have a unisex toilet, and an access bathroom.

Theres is a large overflow carpark at the rear of the site.

In Holme Mills where we are situated, there is Zapato Brewery on the corner, which sells hot and cold drinks, plus some bar snacks. Sometimes they have food vans over Fri-Sun too.

We won't be offering hot drinks to members (like we do on our courses and workshops), but you can visit Zapato and bring it back, or bring a flask, and food with you.

You can travel to Globe 2 on foot, bike, car or bus. See our map at the top of the page, or copy and paste this link and save it in your favourites https://maps.app.goo.gl/DYNibmtUDNrn3uMt6

You can travel along the canal on foot or bike, from Slaithwaite or Marsden

Drive or catch a bus along Manchester Road.

We are currently running access/PP on:

Mondays-Fridays, 1 Saturday and 1 Sunday per month

This is subject to change, as we assess what members want, and what our staff can facilitate.

PP stands for Personal Practice, and it's what we've used on our booking system for the last couple of years for our fused glass members.

Access time/ membership time slots/ PP all mean the same thing.

Working on your own, with a technician in the studio, doing your own personal projects, using skills and techniques you have learned on a course or workshop.

We highly recommend anyone who has done courses elsewhere previously, to do at least 3 × 6 weeks course (around 30 hours) before starting a membership.

Its a new environment, with different equipment, a different set up etc.

IF, however, you are a working artist, and do CERAMICS or FUSED GLASS or STAINED GLASS as your job, that is a different matter!

We'd assume if you're good enough to make a living from it, that you don't need our tuition, you'd just need to book an induction.

If you have experience printmaking and are wishing to have a print membership with us, a ‘Print Membership Studio Test’ must be completed before you begin your personal practice.

Studio tests have a one-off fee of £20, and gives you an hour of 1:1 time with our technician to ensure you are confident, get to know you, explain safe use of equipment and gives you the opportunity to ask any questions.

Each Glass member will have a dedicated shelf on the trolley and space for an additional crate.

Each ceramic member will have a dedicated shelf on the trolley, and can have use of 1 plastic drying tub per project per month.

We are charging for firings based on the space it takes up on the kiln shelf for Fused Glass, or based on the weight for Ceramics.

e.g- a 30x30cm piece of fused glass will cost £6

e.g- a bisque firing is included in the purchase of your clay, £3.50 per kilo