Work-Stop Workshops from Workshop Studios in YYC

by | Mar 23, 2020 | workshops

INTRODUCING: WORK-STOP WORKSHOPS

Hand building at home with live video instruction

Beginning Monday, March 30th at 2pm

This newly-imagined series of workshops includes a (heavily) sanitized Work-Stop Workshop kit delivered to your door including clay, tool kits, and pickup of finished work to be fired. Ground yourself in creative practice and expand your community while learning basic hand-building techniques from home.

Join us from home for our new live-stream hand building class, designed to spark creativity and foster community while respecting the public health recommendations of our strange new reality.

Over the course of five two-hour sessions, shared live via Zoom, one of our talented instructors will guide you through the basic skills of hand building. You will pinch, coil, roll, sculpt, and carve objects such as bowls, hanging plant pots, serving dishes, boxes, vases, wall hangings, mugs, cups, or small sculptures, and learn decorative techniques like sgraffito. Registration is now live!

Our hearts are with you as you protect your health, care for your families, and navigate new employment landscapes. We hope that the Work-Stop Workshops series will create new opportunities for connection, growth, mindfulness, and play as we ride this out together. Your support and participation will enable us to continue to offer Calgary-based artists valuable employment and an opportunity to share their skills. As always, we are very grateful.

Registration and additional details on their website.

 

OUR USUAL STUDIO OFFERING

Our regular programming includes wheel throwing and hand building workshops for participants of all skill levels. Held in our upstairs studio, these workshops last six or eight weeks and group sizes are limited to twelve participants.

We look forward to opening our studio to the public again as soon as we’re able. Stay tuned to this page for updates and registration. If you have any questions, please contact us.

workshopstudios.ca/ceramic-workshops/

Archie Bray LIVE today with Steve Lee

by | Mar 23, 2020 | workshops

*LIVE BROADCAST TODAY 1PM MST*

Feel free to post any questions in the comments on their instagram feed or share them during the broadcast.

As we are all adjusting to the conditions related to COVID-19 concerns, the Bray staff are looking for new ways to reach out to our community while we are closed to the public. We are eager to engage with you and to provide an opportunity to connect during this unprecedented time.

Watch for weekly broadcasts from the Bray on Instagram Live and Facebook Live from the Bray to share different aspects of our campus and programs and provide an opportunity for our supporters to offer feedback.

The first broadcast will take place this Monday, March 23 at 1 pm mountain time. Our Director, Steven Young Lee, will live broadcast from his studio, throwing porcelain cups and answering questions from you about what’s happening at the Bray or about his work. We hope to see you then! Stay well.
#livefromthebray #archiebray

 

FREE Memberships to STUDIO POTTER!!!

by | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized

In light of the reality that many of our colleagues are scrambling to create online learning for their ceramics students, Studio Potter is offering a three-month free membership to ceramic departments or your school library. Our archive of over 8,000 pages of content will be accessable to professors and their students, and it is an excellent resource for remote ceramic education.

Any university or educational center affected by COVID-19 is eligible for the free three month membership. All students and faculty will access the journal under one log in for the three month period.

If you would like to take advantage of this offer, please have a faculty or staff member of your organization email Jess Detweiler at [email protected]. We will set up one account for each group. Include the following information in your email:
1. Your name
2. Your organization’s name
3. The email address you would like associated with the log in
4. Estimated number of students that will access the journal through this log in

Furthermore, we encourage you to give your students a writing assignment – Create an article for Studio Potter. You screen the submissions and send your top three to Jill Foote-Hutton at [email protected] for consideration. Selected student authors will be published on studiopotter.org and will receive a one year membership to Studio Potter.

Need some some suggestions for how to use Studio Potter as an educational resource? Look no further! Check out there blog update HERE.

Studio Potter remains committed to supporting our ceramics community. If you would like to help support our efforts, please donate to us today.

studiopotter.org

upcoming workshop: Web Presence for Artists with Carole Epp

by | Feb 11, 2020 | workshops

I’m super excited to announce that I’ll be in Ottawa this May teaching! Really hope you can join me at this incredible clay studio for an evening of talking online presence and social media.

May 21st, 2020 from 6pm – 9pm.

Reg price of $75. Early Bird registration fee: $60 (Early Bird sale ends March 31st.)

LOAM will have the pleasure to welcome Carole Epp to the studio for a Master Class like no other.

Want to effectively use the internet to drive your career in the arts? Then this workshop is for you! Carole will teach you how to map out and establish an online presence that is both efficient and effective for creatives. We’ll begin with the solid foundation of a portfolio based website that anyone can build and then expand to include a number of social media sites and how to maintain and optimize them. This workshop covers content development, context concerns and considerations, and how to focus your time and energy spent online. We’ll also spend some time introducing fun apps that make branding and content creation fun and engaging. Course is open to artists with all levels of experiences.

Expect to come away with new insight into:

  Branding, website development, and design.
  Different social media platforms for creatives.
  Effective and efficient approaches to content development.
  How to set up a realistic plan for consistency.
  Easy to use Apps to solidify your branding across web platforms.
  Building your audience and community through active contribution.

Participants are encouraged to submit their current website and social media links prior to the workshop in order to receive specific feedback on their current practices. Existing website and social media links are however not a requirement.

Contact LOAM to register.

Also happening in Ottawa starting the next day is the NEW CLAY CONFERENCE – why not make it a full weekend of ceramics and the art of business?

Find out more about New Clay Conference HERE.