The Potter’s Guild has been told to cease kiln activities in the Kenai Fine Arts Center due to a problem with insurance.
Kenai Fine Arts Board Secretary Joe Kashi said the Potter’s Guild requested the KFAC to look into whether or not the guild was covered under the existing insurance that the center used.
Kashi: “In the process of checking about the potters possible coverage we found out, rather to our surprise, that in the dim ages of the past, whomever and whenever the insurance had been initially placed it had been listed as strictly an art gallery and public exhibit area.”
He also explained what that meant.
Kashi: “If pottery firing and operations had gone on there then there would be no insurance coverage for anything that arose as a result of that and that would in turn place the Kenai Fine Arts Center in apparent violation of its long term lease with the city of Kenai and result in the cancellation of the entire arts center lease potentially to the detriment of the entire arts community rather than just a small subset of it.”
The arts center spent time meeting and negotiating with their current insurance however could not find a solution nor an insurance type to cover the current operations.
The guild has been given four months to move their materials and equipment.