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Instructors: Les Manning, Robin Dupont

This hands-on program is designed for the ceramic artist strong in technical skills wishing to examine form from a personal [...]

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Instructor: Alan Burgess

Students will learn about kiln design, repair and maintenance,  how to get the best performance and increase the working life [...]

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Instructor: Gordon Hutchens

Both crystalline and low temperature reduction glazes will be covered in this intensive hands-on course. First developed in Europe in [...]

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Instructor: Julia Lowther

Students will learn basic jewelry making skills, including stone-setting, soldering, piercing, riveting, hot-forging, and finishing. Everything you need to make [...]

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Instructor: Brian Brett

During the last decade, writers have rediscovered the magic in memoirs using a tremendous variety of styles – poetry, fictionalization, [...]

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Instructor: Victor Arcega

This workshop will examine the figure as an expressive element of fine arts. Students will explore the live model in [...]

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Instructor: Larkin Van Horn

There are as many ways to do fabric collage as there are people doing it. The workshop will focus on [...]

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Instructor: Vincent Massey

In this course, students will design and create a ceramic platter using molds they have created using Styrofoam. Asymmetric, deep, [...]

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Instructor: Duane Prentice

Learning to see is a constant and exciting adventure. Students will explore their creativity, learning to recognize the potential pictures [...]

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Instructor: Alan Wylie

Students will create grisaille paintings (the historic method of painting monochromatically in shades of grey, often to imitate sculpture) working [...]

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Instructor: Laura McKibbon

This intensive workshop will introduce a variety of ceramic print techniques: stenciling; hand-drawn, photocopy and underglaze transfers; decal printing; and [...]

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Instructor: Carol Gouthro

Creating interesting, exuberant hand-built forms in clay does not have to be hard. During the 5 days, Carol will show [...]

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Instructor: Chic Lotz

Students will perform hands-on mixing and firing of simple line blends to learn how to achieve the glaze surfaces and [...]

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Instructor: Dorothy Field

Collage marries strange bedfellows, impossible opposites, the precious and the discarded. Morning sessions will begin with individual and group writing/visual [...]

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Instructor: Heather Aston

In this course, participants will explore both watercolour and oil-based monotype, lift print and chine collé techniques. Students will receive [...]

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Instructor: Rob Froese

The processes of throwing, marking, altering, trimming and applying slip decoration will be combined in this study of the subtleties [...]

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Instructor: Mariko McCrae

Mariko will lead students through a two day whirlwind workshop geared toward the development of pre-glazed surfaces of both handmade [...]

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Instructor: Julia Lowther

Students will learn to use a crochet hook to Crochet Knit very fine silver wire into a remarkably flexible and [...]

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Instructor: Debra Sloan

In this workshop, students will use simple forms to explore this process of sculpting with clay. Starting with soft responsive [...]

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Instructor: Karel Roessingh

What makes a good composition? The most effective and memorable music is elegantly simple. Karel Roessingh explains how to write [...]

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Instructor: Michelle Miller

An abstract painting with some sense of a horizon line immediately gives reference to a landscape without actually being a [...]

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Instructor: Joan Carrigan

Tree barks provide one of nature’s most beautiful basket materials. Students will begin with a hands-on discussion covering the harvesting [...]

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Instructor: Dale Roberts

This workshop is a contemporary adaptation of an ancient technique for producing non-woven textiles. Students will explore the endless possibilities [...]

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Instructor: Ken Campbell

Knife painting is fast and simple alla prima painting. Students will move from rendering detail to rendering shapes of textured [...]

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Instructor: Valdy

The introduction is being made, and you’re in the wings, about to take centre-stage. So many performances and rehearsals have [...]

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Instructor: Quinton Gordon

This workshop is suitable for all levels – from the non-photographer to the experienced. The focus will be on developing emotion [...]

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Instructor: Bisia Belina

Tune up and compose yourself! Renew, recharge, and refresh your overstressed anatomy. Go beyond just breathing. This innovative, informative and [...]

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Instructor: Heather Spears

Explore the sources of successful “gesture” drawing – how to draw people in their most usual, and by far most [...]

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Instructor: Crys Harse

Come and learn to develop surface designs using simple etching techniques on copper and brass. Students can experiment with many [...]

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Instructor: Rick Mahaffey

This course will concentrate on clay in the green state. Students will learn techniques for stretching and altering forms that [...]

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Instructors: Chris Tyrell,

This practical course introduces participants to the skills and professional practices needed for the pursuit of a career in the [...]

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Instructor: Loretta Joseph

Using two knives and local drift wood (cottonwood bark), this simple method of creative self-expression is a relaxing and meditative [...]

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Instructor: Crys Harse

Fire up your imagination! Students will learn about, or increase their knowledge of, designing for metal. They will make their [...]

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Instructor: Julia Lowther

Students will build on their basic jewelry making skills to take their knowledge to the next level, experimenting with marriage-of-metals, [...]

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Instructor: Michael Schoenholtz

This course is an exploration of environmental portraiture; capturing people in their own habitat; where the setting is part of [...]

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Instructor: Don Taylor

This course is an introduction to a variety of bookbinding forms and skills. Students will start the week with a [...]

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Instructor: Lorne Loomer

Making our own cedar brushes is only the beginning of getting in touch with ourselves, with nature and with a [...]

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Instructor: Julia Galloway

During this workshop, students will combine throwing and handbuilding to develop new forms to serve as canvases for different types [...]

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Instructor: Janice Mason Steeves

In this lively workshop, participants engage in a playful exploration of abstraction using cold wax medium and oils to create [...]

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Instructor: Don Ellis

Don Ellis will lead five intensive days of alternative firing sessions where participants learn to take their pots to the [...]

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Instructor: Billy Ray Mangham

With a focus on figurative sculpture, students will spend 5 days immersed in the flow of the creative process. Beginning [...]

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Instructor: David Hunwick

Using cardboard and hot-glue guns, students will learn how to manipulate and form cardboard into mythical creatures of the forest. [...]

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Instructor: Tony Bounsall

Students will discover the wonderful opportunities mixed media encaustic has to offer. This class will focus on creative exploration and [...]

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Instructor: Diana Fayt

Push your boundaries and explore the wonders of three dimensional clay forms to express your visual stories! During this workshop, [...]

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Instructor: Eva Campbell

During the week, students will create two paintings from a live model, working in oils and/or acrylics. The class will [...]

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Instructor: Beverly Mangham

Bring those mementos, nature’s offerings, old photos and odd items you have collected for years and join in the fun [...]