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Pottery on the Wheel with Joanna Pottle

Try your hand at making your own clay works of functional art in Greater Saint John’s community arts centre’s pottery studio. Sign up now and join professional potter Joanna Pottle for these fantastic classes, working on the wheel and handbuilding! Space is limited to only four students per class for plenty of time on the wheel and hands-on personal instruction. Fall …

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Winter / Spring Workshops!

IMPORTANT COVID POLICY UPDATE Please note that  SJAC will continue to keep a mandatory mask policy in place for all programs (workshops, galleries, performing arts events, rental events.) Our new round of 2023 winter (and into SPRING!) workshops are now open for registration! You’ll find some new instructors and classes; returning instructors with new offerings; as well as your favourite …

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Scratch the Surface: Clay Tiles

This workshop introduces you to the wonderful world of sgraffito on pottery. Coming from the Italian word for “to scratch”, sgraffito is a technique of scratching through layers of colour on the surface of ceramics to reveal the layers below, and enables an endless exploration of drawing, carving and painting techniques for your ceramics projects. You will work on flat …

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Spotlight on Women Artists

This year, SJAC is proud to join PRUDE Inc., the Saint John Community Loan Fund and the Lorenzo Society in celebrating International Women’s day. For the next month, we will feature local women artists who accepted our invitation to share their work and thoughts on this year’s theme, ‘Choose to Challenge’. From PRUDE Inc.: Celebrating International Women’s Day: March 8, …

Karen Knight and Helen Stanley

Shop Talk Artists’ Statement Two artists meet over tea in handmade pottery mugs, of course, for a never-long-enough conversation about life with clay. For fifteen years these two friends have shared their passion for creating in the same medium while expressing that passion in contrasting ways. A second cup is filled to celebrate a brilliant success, a shoulder is offered …