Servers with Surfaces: Ceramics
Registration
Joan Bruneau
Varying days, November 9 – November 17, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm
This workshop is comprised of 5 working sessions (6hrs/day). November 9 & 10 (10am to 4pm), November 11 (12pm to 6pm), and November 16 & 17 (10am to 4pm). PLUS one final pick-up day (1hr) following the workshop.
Join master potter and educator, Joan Bruneau to build on your throwing skills while expanding your approach to wheel-thrown bowl and serving forms. The workshop will span two weekends. Beginning on the long weekend of Nov 9-11, we will develop thrown bowl and/or moulded server forms (platters). Altering techniques , rims and feet , will be demonstrated and explored. These forms will be treated as 3D canvases for decorated surfaces which will be explored the following weekend (Nov 16 & 17). Slipware surfaces techniques will be demonstrated at the leatherhard stage: stencil and pouncing, sgraffito, mishima, and underglaze paper transfer.
Please Note: This workshop is for students with intermediate to advanced experience in wheel throwing.
Students should bring:
- An Apron
- A Hand Towel
- Throwing and hand-building tools (the School offers use of a small collection of entry level tools)
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.
Joan Bruneau
Joan Bruneau is a studio potter and educator based in Lunenburg, NS. Joan was a regular part time ceramics faculty at NSCAD University (1995-2019), assistant professor at Emily Carr University (1998 – 2002) and operated her Lunenburg studio/storefront, Nova Terra Cotta Pottery ( 1995-2022). She exhibits and teaches workshops across North America and taught at the Distance Ceramics Diploma Programs at the Australia National University and the Glasgow School of Art. Joan was a Demonstrating Artist at The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in Pittsburgh, PENN, 2018.
Joan shares her passion for experiencing beauty in daily life through making and teaching the art and fine craft of pottery. Using Nova Scotia earthenware clay, she produces wheel-thrown and assembled slip-ware informed by ceramics history, natural phenomena and ornament. Her sensuous shapes and patterned surfaces invite contemplation and inspire use.
www.joanbruneau.com
Facebook: Joan Bruneau
Instagram: @bruneaujoan
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.