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 Workshop wish list: 

We have, informally and during guild meetings, brainstormed and come up with many ideas for further workshops that we could present, either at the studio space or in other facilities, depending on the nature of the event. Here are a few suggestions ... feel free to suggest more :
  • Yoga for potters
  • How to put  up an Etzy store
  • How to dispay your work at a show
  • ​Evaluating our pottery photos - Group Critique
  • Photographing Pottery with professional photographer Shahla Kashani - Learn how to use studio lighting and walk away with professional images of the pieces you bring to Flo on Waterloo Avenue - proposed for Fall 2018.  
  • Plates in 2 parts - Session 1 for demos and subsequent participant plate throwing. Session 2 for demos and hands-on follow up for trimming and perhaps slip work or carving surface decoration.
  • Trimming....  Throwing and use of chucks and other trimming aids 
  • Decorating Techniques - Slips, Bubble Glaze, Marbling
  • More with Eleanor Hendriks: 
                          - Feet or Foots
                          - Ways of dealing with the Edges of Slabs 
                          - Creating patterned slab mugs, etc.  
                          - Lips and Rims (both top and bottom) 

                          - Galleries and Lids
                          - Plates 
                          - Producing consistent similar forms
  • Talavera Decoration with Annie 
  • Fun Things with Glaze 
  • Altering Forms from the Wheel 
  • Throwing off the Hump  
  • Goblets 
  • Raku at Esther's Farm 
  • Pit-Firing at the Cottage 
  • Tips and Tricks from a guest potter - Chris Hierlihy 
  • Sectional Pieces - teapots, goblets etc.+
  • Scraffito and Carving 
  • Developing a personal palette 
  • Field trip to the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo 
  • Field trip to the Gardiner Museum 
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