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 …
More Fall Workshops!
Registration for our new round of Fall workshops opens on Friday, Sept. 15th! Here is our lineup of later September classes ready to register, and a sneak peek at the classes open for registration tomorrow, covering the rest of the Fall right up to December! You’ll find some new instructors and classes; returning instructors with new offerings; as well as …
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 …
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 …