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

Instructor Workshops 2017
Alain Costaz Alumigraph Printmaking
Andrea Sirois Light & Composition: Exploring the Natural Landscape
Bob Kingsmill Handbuilding Masks and Functional Objects
Bruce Cochrane Throwing/Altering
Carol Rae Lino cuts
Chiarina Loggia Monotype Magic
Danielle Pope Creative Writing: Practice on the Page
David Shkolny Introduction to soft pastels
Elaine Brewer White Sculptures
Elena Underhill Experience Travel Sketching
Ginny Conrow Porcelain Throwing & Altering
Gordon Hutchens Glazes and Firing
Heather Spears Life Drawing
John A Day Plein air painting
Judith Kruger Abstract Alchemy: Black, White and Warm Metallics
Julie Paul Nature Meets Nuture: Creative Writing from Setting, Samples & Senses
Lori Sokoluk Expressive Mark-making
Louise Solecki Weir Sculpture in Ceramics
Margaret Bohls Expressive Handbuilding
Marney McDiarmid Porcelain bowls and soft slab construction
Marney-Rose Edge Watercolor Florals
Matthew Long Throwing/Firing
Mitch Lyons Printing with Coloured Clay
Natasha Smith Collage Painting: Visual Storytelling
Pat Beaton The Relief Print in Colour
Rick Wiebe Introduction to Woodcarving
Samantha Dickie Paper Plaster Mold Making
Vince Pitelka Handbuilding: tricks of the trade

Instructor Workshops 2016
Susan Low-Beer Mentored Studio Residency
Andrea Sirois Patterns in Nature/Photography
Mary Fox Throwing/ Fine Form
Sarah Pike Slabs with Texture
Judy Weeden Surface Decorations
Wendy Skog Aspects of Abstraction
Lisa Geddes Find your Mark/Drawing
Julie Paul Throwing your Voice
James Watkins Throwing for Alternative Firings
Sarah Pike The Fab Slab
Pauline Conley Beyond Representation
Jeremy Herndle Becoming Landscape/Plein Air
Shary Bartlett Encaustic Mixed Media
Michelle Sirois Silver Textile/Mixed Media
Julia Lowther Jewelry/Rings
Ying-Yueh Chuang Hybrid Sculpture
Ellen Statz Light Your Fire Raku
Kathleen Raven Sculpture
Loren Lukens Handles, Feet & Additions
Laura McKibbon Printing On Clay
Clive Powsey Sketching In Watercolour
Maria Josenhans Field Studies/Acrylic/Oil
Victoria Edgarr Copper Plate Etching
Samantha DaSilva Art marketing
Steven Hill Finding Your Voice / Clay
Jan Edwards Handbuilding for the table
Alan Burgess Decorating and Firing
Samantha DaSilva Fearless Abstract
Lori Sokoluk Watercoulr/Mixed Media
Pat Beaton Lino & Woodblock
Janna Vallee Shibori, Indigo & Natural Dyes
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