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Celebrate Ceramics – Member Profile

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Darlene Malcolm-Moran is a graduate of Sheridan College School of Design and over the years has pursued many aspects of ceramics. Darlene is sharing her vast knowledge and skills through her teaching the Intermediate/Advanced classes at the Kawartha Potters Guild.
 
The hand built/wheel thrown vase pictured below is 51.5cm high. This one-of-a-kind piece incorporates an inlay of four colours of marbled patchwork clay and showcases Darlene’s skill in combining multi-coloured clay to create a truly beautiful work of art.
 
Celebrate Ceramics is on April 8th, 7-9pm.
 
Tickets to this event are limited, so make sure you don’t miss out, pick up your ticket at the Kawartha Potters Guild located at 933 Talwood Dr. in Peterborough (open from Tuesday to Friday: 1-5pm). Alternatively, you can email Donna O’Brien, or phone the Guild (705) 742-4979 to purchase your ticket.  Tickets are $75 and in addition to choosing a beautiful piece of pottery to take home, there will be live music, complimentary food and a glass of wine! You can bring a friend for $25. Just remember that the $25 ticket price does not entitle that ticket holder to take home a piece of pottery.
tall narrow vase with centre marbled section in white, red and black clays, top and bottom glazed in celedon green - Darlene Malcolm Moran

Celebrate Ceramics – Sneak Peak!

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Inspired by traditional Japanese Raku pottery, this beautiful lidded Raku vase has been donated by Anne Young who is a member of the Kawartha Potters Guild.
This one-of-a-kind vase is just a sampling of the fabulous pottery that has been donated for Celebrate Ceramics.
Celebrate Ceramics is on April 8th, 7-9pm.
Tickets to this event are limited, so make sure you don’t miss out, pick up your ticket at the Kawartha Potters Guild located at 933 Talwood Dr. in Peterborough (open from Tuesday to Friday: 1-5pm). Alternatively, you can email Donna O’Brien, or phone the Guild (705) 742-4979 to purchase your ticket.
Tickets are $75 and in addition to choosing a beautiful piece of pottery to take home, there will be live music, complimentary food and a glass of wine! You can bring a friend for $25. Just remember that the $25 ticket price does not entitle that ticket holder to take home a piece of pottery.
Raku urn with lid in blue greys and blacks - Anne Young

Future Workshops

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As we move forward through Covid-19, we are continuing to test the waters with classes and member workshops.  We hope to offer public workshops soon.  Please check back for updates.

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Wayne Cardinalli discussing tools of the trade

Celebrate Ceramics Fundraiser!

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Are you looking for an evening with great entertainment, refreshments, good company and the ability to go home with an individual piece of pottery?  Look no further, do we have the event for you.

Celebrate Ceramics is a fundraising event for the Kawartha Potters Guild.  Join us on Friday April 8, 2022 at the Lion’s Club in Peterborough, Ontario.  Tickets are $75.00.  Everyone who purchases an Event Ticket will be entered into a draw. Throughout the evening, Event Tickets will be drawn at random. When the ticket holder’s number is drawn, that person can choose one pottery item from those displayed to take home! If that is not enough, all ticket holders will receive a complimentary glass of wine, refreshments and entertainment.  You can bring a guest for $25.00, but they will not be eligible for the pottery draw. 

To support this fundraiser, the Kawartha Potters Guild has received donations of pottery from our Guild members and from potters throughout Ontario including Teresa Dunlop, Naomi Clement, Monika Schaefer, Anne Chambers, Thom Lambert, Thomas Aitken and Kate Hyde. The Guild has also received sponsorship from a number of local businesses including Empirical Assessment Solutions, Summit Terrace, Peterborough Gardens, AYA Kitchen Designs, and Cornerstone family Dentistry.  We are most grateful for the support from our local businesses as well as other Ontario potters.

All funds raised will assist the growth of the ceramic arts community by helping to promote and foster the creativity of ceramic artists and the ceramic arts community. Funds raised will also support ceramic arts education for all ages and skills in Peterborough and the Kawarthas.

So come join us for a fun social evening, admire (and take home) some really stunning ceramic works.  If you have any questions about purchasing tickets (they are available in our Pottery Shop), please call us at 705-742-4979 or contact our Administrator.

Covid-19 Update – January 5, 2022

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The Provincial Government announced new Covid restrictions effective Jan 5th for 21 days; we are back to a modified Stage 2 which means KPG will be closed for all in-person activity.

The classes slated to start the week of January 10th have been postponed to the week of January 24th.

We can keep the Gallery Shop open for retail therapy, with a maximum of 3 people in the facility at a time (not including staff/volunteer), with 6’ distancing, full mask and sanitizing on entry.

Members can do drop off and pick ups, purchase clay, tools, etc., however, we ask them to call or email to confirm date and time to ensure we don’t exceed our numbers. We will have either Kristina, Donna or Noreen at the Guild Tues – Fri from 1-5 for customers to shop and members to do their drops/pick ups.

If you have any questions, please contact Donna directly.

Happy Holidays and Thank You

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Another year will soon be behind us, and we would like to extend our most grateful thanks to each and every one of our customers, Volunteers, Students and friends of KPG.

This year has been full of new and sometimes unexpected challenges. Folks at KPG have been working their socks off to get your orders out of the door, Students work finished and providing services for our members.

The Guild is now closed until January 2022.

We are so appreciative of your support and understanding of the difficulties we have all had to face and wish everyone a peaceful holiday and a healthy New Year.  Stay safe.

Holiday Sale Thank You

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The Guild has just concluded a very successful Holiday Sale. Thank you to all our loyal customers who continue to shop at the sale and to all the new customers who discovered us this year by following the red arrow.
A special thank you to the Sales Committee who diligently worked to provide a safe and stress free environment for holiday shopping. To all the volunteers who worked during the sale, sincere gratitude. And to the potters who have worked for the past several months creating beautiful pottery, your pottery exemplifies the quality to be found at the Kawartha Potters Guild. 

Socks Peterborough is immensely grateful for the 5 large shopping bags they received from students and customers of the Guild.

Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday Season and peace, joy and good health in 2022.

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