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
- 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