4-Week Pottery Classes

Beginner Pottery: Throwing and Hand Building

Our 4-Week Beginner Pottery: Throwing and Handbuilding class will cover a variety of basic pottery techniques for throwing on the wheel and hand-building. The class is designed to help you feel comfortable working with clay regardless of which method you’re using.

Each week, the instructor will go through a new aspect of the process including: centering, pulling, trimming, and glazing. Each stage of the process provides an expanded approach to materials, equipment, techniques and processes of ceramics, with an emphasis on having fun and learning new things!

Intermediate Pottery: Throwing Bigger with Coil Throwing

Our 4-Week Intermediate Pottery: Throwing Bigger with Coil Throwing class is designed for students with previous pottery experience and offers an opportunity to build on foundational wheel-throwing skills and take your practice to the next level!

Participants will learn the coil throwing technique, a method that allows the creation of larger forms on the wheel with greater efficiency and less physical strain. Through guided demonstrations and hands-on instruction, you’ll develop control, precision, and confidence while working toward a final piece approximately 40 cm in height. In this course, you will use beautiful terra cotta clay to make planters. The finished work will not have glaze on the surface.

By the end of the course, you’ll have expanded both your technical ability and creative range in wheel throwing!

Supplies: One bag of clay included (each additional clay bag is $20 incl. GST); All other supplies provided.
Minimum enrollment: 6 students per class
Maximum enrollment: 12 students per class
Registration Deadline: Two weeks before class start date
Cancellation/Refund Policy:
Before Class Start Date: A full refund (less a $25 administration fee) is available if you cancel by the registration deadline.
After Class Start Date: For cancellations after the registration deadline or no-shows, we will be unable to issue any refund. If you need to cancel due to medical reasons (documentation required), a partial refund will be given.

Saturday “Sampler” Classes

A great way to try out wheel throwing without an 8-week commitment! Slide into a “sampler” session and discover if the clay life is for you! Bring your partner, your parents, or that friend who keeps saying they want to try pottery. This is an easygoing three hours of spinning, laughing, and discovering what your hands can really do.

You will sit down at the potter’s wheel with an instructor guiding you, try a few forms, and choose your favourite creation to bisque. If you want to take it further, you can save that piece to glaze in a future eight week course. Finished work will be ready for pick up in about three to four weeks.

Supplementary Studio Hours

You can now add on additional studio time on Sundays to practice your techniques and finish your work! Each session gives you access to the studio with a trained instructor on-site to help you refine your skills.

If you’re looking for extra time to work on a class project or time to improve your technique, these extra hours are for you.

Each session is scheduled on Sundays from 1:00 – 4:00pm, and you can use the time as you see fit. An instructor will be on-site to help with any questions you might have but will not be leading any formal demonstrations.

This class is an extension to the 8-week adult classes and participants must be actively registered in a current 8-week class in order to register for the Supplementary Studio Hours.

Price: $55 per person + GST = $57.75/session. Additional bags of clay may be purchased directly from the instructor of the session for $20 per bag (GST included).
Registration deadline: 12:00pm on the Thursday before each Sunday class
Minimum enrollment: 6 per class; class will be cancelled if less than 6 particpans register by 12pm the Thursday before
Maximum enrollment: 12 per class

Cancellation/Refund Policy:
Before Class Start Date: A full refund (less a $25 administration fee) is available if you cancel by the registration deadline.
After Class Start Date: For cancellations after the registration deadline or no-shows, we will be unable to issue any refund. If you need to cancel due to medical reasons (documentation required), a partial refund will be given.