Wheel-throwing Classes
UPCOMING CLASSES
The Classroom
A dedicated space for instruction, immediately next to the studio's production and member spaces, with something for you no matter your level of experience.
The class sizes are small, the tools are high-quality, and the classroom is arranged in an intimate way to facilitate both individual and group learning. Your experienced instructor will be working through demonstrations in time with you nearby at their own wheel.
Every detail of the classroom is designed to create a relaxed, non-competitive learning environment where curious students can advance their skills and understanding of this challenging and gratifying craft.
Teaching Philosophy
Grasping the process of making pots on the wheel is a years-long pursuit that requires several honed skills, and won't be achieved in the span of one class. But the instruction you'll find here is designed to break that process down into smaller parts so you can absorb the important details and make relatively fast progress.
This allows you to add to your skill set at a pace realistically aligned with the lengthy learning curve of wheel-throwing, and to discover the possibilities and limitations of clay without the pressure of production and firm timelines. A pace that also minimizes both material waste and frustration (a wonky pot makes trimming much harder than it needs to be, for example).
Making pots is an art and a science! Creative and technical. And you'll find both of those things her
Instructors
Kate is a big fan of the details and loves getting lost in precision work. When teaching, she works to find just the right words to convey the subtleties of timing and movement that wheel-throwing requires, and gets a thrill from seeing her students' eyes widen with sudden understanding. She began practicing wheel-throwing in 2009, and teaching in 2019.
Anna-Lise is drawn to clay as a medium because of its multifaceted process, from designing and testing to the physical preparation and forming. Her work explores mark making, repetition and pattern, and the way it interacts with form. She graduated from Emily Carr University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2013, and has been teaching in studios across Calgary ever since.