Shapely Servers: Bisque Moulds and More!
Registration
$550.00
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Joan Bruneau
Monday to Friday, May 18 – May 22, 2026
9:30am – 4:30pm
Join Joan Bruneau to create wheel-thrown and altered shapes for bisque-moulded plates, platters, and serving bowls. Bisque moulds offer a quick, durable way to produce uniform or large dinnerware shapes, including non-round forms. Explore oval, square, and scalloped designs, along with serving vessels featuring thrown feet and rims. Joan will demonstrate making a large platter with a coil-thrown rim and foot. The final day will focus on surface decoration, with demonstrations and illustrated lectures throughout the workshop. Pieces will be bisque fired and available for pick up following the workshop.
Please note:
This workshop is for students with advanced and intermediate wheel throwing experience.
Monday, May 18th, the 1st class of this workshop, will take place on a holiday, Victoria Day.
This workshop is comprised of 5 working sessions (6hr) PLUS one final pick-up day (1hr). We will be using red stoneware clay.
Students should bring:
The LSA provides basic throwing tools but it is recommended that participants bring : Apron, Towel, medium to large Rubber rib, 1 – 2 discontinued CDs or DVDs ( to use as optional ribs), fettling knife, cheese cutter or wire cutting tool, exacto knife.
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Joan Bruneau
Joan Bruneau 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.
Joan Bruneau is a studio potter and educator based near Lunenburg, NS.
She operated her Lunenburg studio/storefront, Nova Terra Cotta Pottery, from 1995- 2022 and was a Regular Part Time Ceramics Faculty at NSCAD University from 1995-2019. She was Assistant Professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art from 1998 – 2002. 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 NCECA in Pittsburgh, 2018. Her work is featured in Ceramics Monthly ( 2014) and Ben Carter’s books, Low-Fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors ( 2024) and Mastering The Potter’s Wheel (2016).
www.joanbruneau.com
Facebook: Joan Bruneau
Instagram: @bruneaujoan
