Spring/Summer 2025

🎨 Summer Workshops 2025

🌀 Pattern Planning Workshop

Date: Saturday, June 21st, 1:00–5:00pm

Instructor: Karina Bates

Explore repeated patterns like mandalas and geometric forms using sgraffito. No prior experience needed. Bring a medium leatherhard piece if you wish.

Pattern Planning Workshop

Cost: $96.05 (Member) / $118.65 (Non-Member)

Location: Kawartha Potters Guild, 993 Talwood Dr., Peterborough

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💪 Throwing Large Boot Camp

Date: Saturday, June 14th, 1:00–5:00pm

Instructor: Kristina Albright

Practice throwing larger vessels—this class is all about technique and process, not keeping pieces. Must be able to center 1kg of clay.

2025 Throwing Large Boot Camp

Cost: $135.60 (Member) / $163.85 (Non-Member)

Max: 5 students

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🔄 Altered Forms Workshop

Dates: Fridays starting June 6th, 11:30am–2:30pm

Instructor: June Goodwin

Combine wheel and hand-building techniques in this 4-session class. Must be able to center and pull a cylinder. Includes 10kg of clay.

2025 Workshop Altered Forms

Cost: $350.30 (Member) / $384.20 (Non-Member)

Max: 6 students

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🌿 What’s Happening at KPG

🌿 Celebrate Ceramics

Get ready for an unforgettable evening—Celebrate Ceramics is our signature fundraising event, and it only comes around every two years! Join us for a vibrant night filled with delicious food, lively music, and the joy of selecting a stunning piece of pottery to take home. Whether you’re a long-time collector or just discovering the beauty of handmade ceramics, this is a night you won’t want to miss!

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🎨 One-Off Classes Are Back!

Our fun and flexible one-off handbuilding classes return on Sunday mornings from 10:30–12:30. Led by Brenda Barron, each session features a new creative project.

Cost: $65 + HST per class

Check out the schedule and register through our classes page (scroll below the Winter section).

☀️ Summer Camp 2025

Our popular Summer Camp is back! Registration is open for ages 7–12 and for our returning Teen Wheel Week.

Join us for a week of creative exploration and hands-on learning in our inspiring studio environment.

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Family Day Fun!

Brenda barron

Join Brenda for a day of making!  You can bring out your own inner child by registering for this fun workshop with your child, or the whole family.  Adults will be making planters while the children get to sculpt whatever creatures their imaginations desire.  This workshop takes place on Family Day, Monday, February 17 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  

blue hand built planter with applied flower.

To register, please click here.

 

The adults will be making a planter something like this:

 

The children will make critters:A selection of hand built creatures, some real, some purely imaginary.

Kawartha Potters' Guild