2024 Workshops

Instructor		Workshops - 2024
AILSA BROWN		The Art of Underglaze: Discovering Your Unique Ceramic Voice
ALISON WATT		Abstracting Landscape with Acrylic & Mixed Media
BARRY STRASBOURG-THOMPSON		Favourite Photos Make Fun Paintings
BETTINA MATZKUHN		MAPPA: Cartography in Cloth
CHARMIAN NIMMO		Pinched Buns and other Critters
CLIVE TUCKER		Throwing Smart Pots for Small Spaces
CONNER BURNS		Throwing & Altering Clay Vessels
DAVID SHKOLNY		People in Places in Pastels
DEBORAH CZERNECKY, SCA		Painting Outside: Understanding The Bigger Picture
DIANE BLACK		Expressive Clay Sculpture
DIANE LADE		Eco-Printing on Paper
ELEANOR HANNAN		Embroidery and the Face
GLORIA GELO		Paper Love: The Art of Creating Unique Papers
HEATHER MARTENS REMPEL		Bookmaking with Gel-Plate Monoprints
HEATHER PLETT		Writing with Tenderness
HOLLY McKEEN		A Deep Dive into Crystalline & Special Effects Glazes
JEFFRY de JONG		Capturing Shapes in the Natural World with Watercolour
JENNA BUTLER		Creative Journalling
KEN MINER		Historical Tintype Photographic Process
KERRY PAGDIN		Linocut Printmaking
LAURA GOSNELL		Throwing with Intention
LEONARD BUTT		Papier Mache Sculpture
NATASHA van NETTEN		Imaginative Nature Drawing
PATT SCRIVENER		Abstracting the Landscape: Cold Wax & Oil Paint
PAUL CHIZIK		Landscape Painting in Oils Using Reference Photos
PETER LOEBEL		Urban Sketching with Ink & Watercolour
SHARON EPSTEIN		Creative Textile Explorations
SIMONE LITTLEDALE ESCOBAR		Wild Colour – Turning Earth into Paint
SUSAN PURNEY MARK		Textile “Pinch Pot” Vessels
TERRI BIBBY		SAORI: The Joy of Weaving
TRACY KOBUS		The Right Approach: An Introduction to Drawing
VICTOR ARCEGA		Expressionism and the Figure
VICTORIA EDGARR		Mixed Media Art Cards
WENDY WELCH		Collage as Landscape
XANE St. PHILLIP		Exploring Composition & Design

2023 Workshops

Instructor		Workshops - 2023
ALAN BURGESS		Throwing: Improve Your Skills!
ARLYNN NOBEL		Exploring Sectional Throwing
BARBARA HIRANO		A Rhythmic Use of Clay
BRETT MACDONALD		Improv for Well-Being and Connection
BRYAN MERRYFIELD		Rhythmic Joy: Hand Drumming & Singing
CARA BAIN		Painting Expressive Portraits in Oils
CAROLINE FORDE		The Natural Studio: Sustainable Methods for Dyeing Textiles
CATHI JEFFERSON		Turning Bowls Upside Down
DESIREE deRUITER		Introduction to Mokuhanga: Japanese Woodblock Printmaking
ELISE WAGNER		Wax Praxis: Encaustic Applications
EMILY MORGAN		Figurative Sculpture
JENNA BUTLER		Writing the Body, Writing the Land
JENNIFER LAWSON		The Joy of Watercolour: A Playful Approach
JEREMY HERNDL		Painting Here and Now
JOAN CARRIGAN		Basketmaking with Local Natural Materials
JOE BATT		Revealing New Worlds: Small Scale Clay Figures
JUDITH DIOS		Explorations in 3D Watercolour Nuno Felt
KATHY GUTHRIE		Contemporary Calligraphy: Modern Pointed Brush Lettering
KERRY PAGDIN		Linocut Printmaking
LESLEY TURNER		The Sewing Machine and the Artist
MARNEY McDIARMID		Exploring Surface Design
MARNEY-ROSE EDGE		White Sunlit Florals in Watercolour
MARY PAL		Cheesecloth Imagery
MARYLOU WAKEFIELD		Mark Making using Handmade Brushes & Tools
NANCY WESLEY		Felting the Avian Form
NATASHA van NETTEN		Drawing with Science
PATT SCRIVENER		Explore Cold Wax & Oil Paint
PETER FLANAGAN		Throwing: Pushing and Pulling Limits
PETER LOEBEL		Urban Sketching with Ink & Watercolour
PHYLLIS SCHWARTZ		Experiment with Cyanotypes
RENÉE DUVAL		Mentored Residency
SANDRA DOLPH		Seascape/Landscape/Cityscape in Clay
SANDY HARQUAIL		Hand-built Slab Teapots
TERRI BIBBY		SAORI Weaving Explorations
WANDA SHUM		Millefiori Garden in Polymer Clay
WENDY MOROSOFF-SMITH		Collagraph Printmaking: Experimental Image Making with Texture
WENDY WELCH		The Contemporary Botanical

2022 Workshops

Instructor		Workshops-2022
BRIDGET FAIRBANK		Ceramic Plant Portraiture
CHARMIAN NIMMO		Pots that Serve
DAVID SHKOLNY		Forest To Sea In Soft Pastels
ELAINE BREWER-WHITE		Figure Gestures
ELLEN STATZ		Pots that Sing: Naked Raku
EUNMI CONACHER		Letting it go! Abstract Workshop
FREDI RAHN		Deep Dive Into Bowls
HEATHER MIDORI YAMADA		Sparking the “Good” Eye: Nature as Subject
JARED VANDERMEER		Creative Photography & Social Content
JEAN BRADBURY		Birds of British Columbia in Oils
JEREMY HERNDL		Painting Here and Now
KATY DRIJBER		Layered Stories: Porcelain, Pattern & China Paint
KEN CAMPBELL		Abstract Thinking
LAURA van der LINDE		Clay is Your Canvas
LESLEY TURNER		Drawing with a Sewing Machine
MARYLOU WAKEFIELD		Mark Making with Handmade Tools
MO HAMILTON		Surface Design & Block Printing on Fabric
NICHOLAS PEARCE		Figure to Face
PETER FLANAGAN		Throw & Push the Limits!
PETER LOEBEL		Urban Sketching in Ink & Watercolour
PHYLLIS SCHWARTZ		Lumen Prints: Photography without a Camera
ROBERTA PYX SUTHERLAND		Brush Dance
SANDY HARQUAIL		Creating Unexpected Forms with Slabs
SARA BURGESS		Paper Extravaganza
SHARY BARTLETT		FLOW: Fluid Mixed Media Exploration
SUZANNE NORTHCOTT		Savage Sashiko Denim Mending
TERRI BIBBY		SAORI Weaving Adventures
WANDA SHUM		Millefiori Doodles in Polymer Clay
YVONNE BLOMER		Poetry: Form and Line

2020 Workshop Program – Cancelled due to COVID-19

Instructor
SUSAN DELATOUR		A SPECIAL PLACE: Handbuilding Houses
CORRE ALICE		Abstracted Florals
WESLEY T WRIGHT		Animal Portrait Sculpture & Mold Making
DAVID HUNWICK		Bas-Relief Sculpture
VINCENT MASSEY		Beyond Wheel Throwing
ROBERTA PYX SUTHERLAND		Brush Dance | Line Dance
MARY PAL		Cheesecloth Imagery on Fabric
LAURA van der LINDE		Clay as Canvas
PATT SCRIVENER		Cold Wax & Oil
STEFANIE DENZ		Constructing A Painting Surface
LINDA DOHERTY		Creative Extruding
GINNY CONROW		Crystalline Glazes & Porcelain
ILKA BAUER		Detailed Pencil Studies
SASHA MIRZOYAN		Expressive Ink
SHARY BARTLETT		FLOW: Fluid Mixed Media Exploration
CHERYL JACOBS		Foldformed Jewellery
ELAINE BREWER-WHITE		Garden Gargoyles
PETER LOEBEL		Gestural Drawing From Life
JULIA LOWTHER		Heavy Band Rings: Flush Set & File Work
PAULA BARRANTES		Landscapes in Watercolour & Pen
HEIDI CHARTRAND		Life In Death: Painting On Skulls
RENÉE DUVAL		Mentored Residency
STEVEN HILL		MICROCRYSTALLINE GLAZES: Atmospheric-Like Results for Oxidation
SHARON EPSTEIN		MIXED MEDIA: The Unconventional Sketchbook
DAVID HUNWICK		Mould Making & Casting
AMBER FRIEDMAN		NATURAL DYE: A Complete Colour Wheel
BETTINA MATZKUHN		Obsessive Chain Stitch
TODD LAMBETH		Painting Space
APRIL CAVERHILL		Playful Printmaking
PAT BEATON		PRINTMAKING: The Relief Print
DARREL MCLEOD & JENNIFER MANUEL		Re-imagine the Page
DAWN LIVERA		Rigid Heddle Weaving
SHEILA STEWART		Rug Hooking: More Than Pulling Loops
LOUISE SOLECKI WEIR		Sculpting The Head In Clay
DAN WELDEN		SOLARPLATES: Monoprinting in the Sun
HEATHER MIDORI YAMADA		THE CONTEMPLATIVE EYE: Arranging Nature as Subject
JILL MARGO		Three Good Habits to Structure a Consistent Practice
CHARMIAN NIMMO		THROWING: Pots That Serve
PETER FLANAGAN		THROWING: Pushing the Limits
INGRID HAUSS		Toward Renewal and Belonging: Art, Movement & Community
CJ JILEK		Transformations in Form & Surface

2019 Workshops

Instructor
RICHARD BURKETT		Amazed & Glazed
JEAN BRADBURY		Animals & Botanicals & Metallic Leaf
CATHI JEFFERSON		Atmospheric Immersion: Soda Firing
MO HAMILTON		Block Printing & Surface Design on Fabric
HEATHER MIDORI YAMADA		Contemplative Mind | Spontaneous Brush
ANDY LOU		Contemporary Chinese Brush Painting
SARA ROBICHAUD		Contemporary Painting
GERA SCOTT CHANDLER		Crackled 3D Effects with Polymer Clay
LINDA DOHERTY		Creative Extrusions
KATHY JOHNSON		Eco-Printing: Revealing Nature’s Hidden Magic
TONY BOUNSALL		Encaustics & Mixed Media
NANCY WESLEY		Fantastical Creatures: 3D Needle Felting
		Fine Twined Vessels
		Haida Weaving: A Cedar Bark Basket
		Handbuilding: Slabs & Templates
		Handbuilding: Tips & Tricks
HEATHER SPEARS		Intensive Lifedrawing & the Hand
		Letters from the Trees: The School of Ogham
		Letting it Go! Abstract Painting
		Looking is Touching: Plein Air Painting
		Magic At Our Feet: A Botanical Notebook
DON FARRELL		Mentored Residency
CHERYL JACOBS		Metal In All Its Glory
		Narrative Clay Sculpture
		Painting a Portrait in Watercolour
		Painting Towards Abstraction
DANI IVES		Painting with Wool
		Perfecting The Teapot
MARNEY-ROSE EDGE		Pet Portraits in Watercolour
		RAKU: Mud, Fire & Smoke
		SAORI Weaving: Weaving Without Boundaries
		Sculpture using Mesh & Slips
		Sizing Up in Clay
DAN WELDEN		Solarplates: Monoprinting in the Sun
LAURA van der LINDE		SURFACE: Clay as Canvas
CONNIE MOREY		The Book As Art
DAVID HATFIELD		The Singing Soul
		Throwing & Altering Clay Vessels
PETER LOEBEL		Urban Sketching with Ink & Watercolour
DAVID SHKOLNY		Vibrant Landscape in Pastel
		What a Relief! Colour Relief Printmaking
		Writing Through Doubt

2018 Workshops

Instructor		Workshops-2018
		Abstraction in Acrylic (UPDATED)
		Fun! Soda Firing
		Abstract Alchemy: Black, White and Warm Metallics
		Life Drawing Intensive
		Monoprints with Coloured Clay Slips
		Art Cloths: Works on Canvas
		Throwing: A Traditional Approach to Clay
		A Sense of Narrative: Image Transfer Techniques on Clay
		Bas Relief Sculpture for Ceramics and Multimedia Artists
		Millefiori Magic: Patterned Veneers & their Application
ALAIN COSTAZ		Intaglio Printmaking with Tetrapaks
ALAN BURGESS		Fun! Soda Firing
ALAN BURGESS		Throwing: A Traditional Approach to Clay
ALLAN MANDELL		Garden Photography with a Zen Twist
Adam Field		Nature Tradition: Cultivating Inspirations in Clay
Angela Pistrucci		Bas Relief Sculpture for Ceramics and Multimedia Artists
Barb Round		Zentangle™ – Basics and Beyond
Bill Horne		Low-Tech Screen Printing
Bob St. Cyr		Pinhole Photography & Cyanotype Prints
Carol Gouthro		Exuberant Clay: Exploring Form
Chris Snedden		A Sense of Narrative: Image Transfer Techniques on Clay
Curtis Golomb		Pushing the Boundaries of Watercolour
DANI IVES		Painting with Wool
DAVID HATFIELD		The Singing Soul: Improvisational A Cappella
Danielle Pope		Practice on the Page: Five-Day Writing Intensive
Debra Sloan		Clay Sculpture: Starting from a Cylinder
GAIL SIBLEY		Pastel Painting En Plein Air
Hanahlie Beise		Introduction to Natural Dyes
Heather Aston		Monotypes: The Painterly Print
Heather Spears		Life Drawing Intensive
JEAN BRADBURY		Botanicals with Acrylic and Metallic Leaf
JULIA LOWTHER		Knots, Slots & Boxes: Rings that do Tricks
Jeannette Sirois		Coloured Pencil & Mixed Media Techniques
Joyce Kline		Charcoal Noir: Creating Compelling Visual Narratives
Judith Kruger		Abstract Alchemy: Black, White and Warm Metallics
MARNEY McDIARMID		Ceramic Design: Working with Templates
MO HAMILTON		Block Printing and Surface Design on Fabric
Michelle Miller		Abstraction in Acrylic (UPDATED)
Nancy Slaght		Mixing It Up: Mixed Media Explorations
RENÉE DUVAL		The Painter’s Process
STEVEN HILL		Throwing Relaxed, Gestural Forms
TERRI BIBBY		SAORI Weaving: Weaving without Boundaries
TONY BOUNSALL		Mixed Media Encaustics
Victoria Christen		Surface Decoration & Coloured Slips

2017 Workshops