Events

SATELLITE WORKSHOPS

Martina Lantin

Pots in Process

In this one-day demonstration workshop, Martina will focus on wheel throwing to alter wet pots and layer designs in slip with monoprint and paper-resist.

March 24, 2023

9am - 4pm

Delta Potters Studio

South Delta Recreation Centre
1720 56th St., Tsawwassen, BC
Cost: $75.00

Please send your expression of interest to: Sharon Sale, deltapotters1@gmail.com

Registration & payment instructions will be confirmed after February 21, 2023.

The figurative vessel: hands-on workshop with Sami Tsang

CANCELLED

Award winning ceramic artist Sami Tsang is known for both her large scale expressive sculptures and her figurative vessels which capture the same humorous and gestural qualities as her painted sculptures. In this one-day workshop, you will learn Sami’s unique methods of coil construction and alteration to make a vase or similar vessel, then practice her brushwork techniques, based on Chinese calligraphy, to animate the details of your figurative object.

Sunday March 26 2023, 10am-4pm

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Studio C/D

6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Tel: 604-297-4440

Use http://webreg.city.burnaby.bc.ca/webreg/Activities/ActivitiesPortalRegistration.asp?cid=841066 to register online, or register by phone at 604-297-4440.

Fee: $182.94 + gst

Materials are included; bring your own tools.

Barcode: 688409

Soda Firing: Brush and Fire – a Delicate Dance

Cathi Jefferson

SOLD OUT

Cathi Jefferson leads a soda-firing workshop at the Shadbolt Centre in conjunction with the Canadian Clay Symposium. Cathi's award-winning, internationally exhibited salt-fired pottery combines complex wheel-thrown and constructed forms with delicate botanically-themed brushwork. Her love of the natural world and her skill and inventiveness in manipulating clay and marrying form and surface are evident in her extensive body of work. Participants bring approximately 2 cubic feet of bisque-fired, cone 10 pieces. Day 1: Cathi, will demonstrate her decoration techniques. Participants will then glaze and decorate their own work. Day 2: learn about surface considerations as the kiln is loaded. Day 3: while the kiln is firing, Cathi will lead a mini hands-on workshop where everyone makes a small clay box; participants also help with the spraying of soda into the kiln at the peak of the firing. The workshop concludes with unloading (open to the public) and a critique of the finished pieces.

March 21 - 27, 2023, various times

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Steam Plant

6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC

Tel: 604-297-4440

Barcode 676574 SOLD OUT

The Public is invited to attend the opening of the kiln firing on Monday, March 27, 10:00 am at the Steam Plant.

TRADE SHOW

Be sure to visit the vendors' booths at the Trade Show where you will have a chance to check out and purchase the latest ceramic art tools, publications, and supplies, as well as find out about studio / educational programs and artist in residencies!  Anyone interested in renting a table at the symposium trade show, please contact tradeshow.canadianclay@gmail.com

2023 TRADE SHOW VENDORS:

www.granvilleislandpublishing.com

CERAMIC ROAD SHOW

The Ceramic Road Show has become a much anticipated Canadian Clay Symposium tradition. Every conference each one of you brings a piece (a piece of your own, your favourite, oldest, newest, funkiest - whatever!) that you want to share with other potters for the day. It’s an amazing show that comes together in less than an hour and features so many gems you’ll always enjoy the experience. There have been pieces more than 500 years old to someone bringing the very 1st pot they ever made. You never know and it’s always terrific! 

Ceramic Road Show Form (click to download)

Please fill out the Ceramic Road Show Form in advance and bring it along with your piece to the symposium.

The Road Show will be in room 201. Enter the Road Show item between 8:15am - 9:00am and pick up the item at 5:15pm. Carol Mayer will be critiquing the Road Show at 12:15pm.

MUG WALL

Don't forget to bring a mug, cup or tea bowl to donate to the Mug Wall (Room 201), and $20 to purchase one! (cash or cheque only)

This fundraiser is sponsored by the North-West Ceramics Foundation with proceeds going into the Maureen Wright Scholarship Fund. Mugs change hands very quickly so don’t lose any time—head for the Mug Wall as soon as you register! This is an opportunity to find a unique and rare sample of work from a huge selection of artists. Free coffee or tea is included with the purchase of a mug.

BC Ceramic Mark Registry – BCCMR

Register your ceramic marks along with your short biography. craftarchive.ca/s/bccmr/page/home