Thematic Research + Accumulative Installation: the essentials of research, planning and producing your specific project with multiple ceramic parts is a five day workshop open to artists who are looking to make bigger more complicated thematic work.

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All ceramic projects and objects are welcome at any stage of making! But it is important to the workshop that you bring something as a jumping off point, whether that is completed work, written down or sketched ideas or even in-process work.

For example,  Are you a potter? Bring 1-10 pots you have made and want to make again, change in some way/expand, or create a world for in exhibition. 

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Are you a sculptor? Do have a leather-hard sculpture you are making, bring it! Do you  have sketches of a piece you have been dreaming of? Bring that. 

In this workshop you will discover and describe a research topic that already exists in your work + refine it (I promise there is one, even if you do not see it yet). Then we will design and plan to make a more expansive installation featuring your ceramic work. We will use my personal practice as a guide.

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In this workshop you will:

• Learn methods of research + project planning

• Make ceramic models + a make paper gallery

• Make ceramic multiples with repetition, templates, tracing and molds (plaster, ceramic + silicon).

• Play with additive and editing methods with kiln (glazing multiple times, luster, decals) and beyond the kiln “cold working” (aka painting) and gluing multiple parts.

• How to keep large projects organized, imagine how to work with or around physical studio constraints (trust me you can do it, I am a ceramic technician).

• Learn to install works securely and play with glues, screws + grout.

• Expand your personal work with a supportive + experimental group

 

Everyday there will be a slide presentation, demo + assignment/exercise to help your work get bigger and more complicated. Everyday there will be time to work in the studio on your personal project by the end your will have sample pieces of work + a new way to move forward with an expansive ceramic project.

 

Participant Required Materials:

• Clay + glazes of choice 

• Basic Clay Tools 

• Apron

• Sketchbook +/or computer 

• Brushes + drawing utensils 

• Pertinent parts of your project if you have begun

 

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Registration Cost $665 +GST
Lodging $348 +GST *limited spots*

Registration Deadline Saturday, June 6, 2026 

https://medalta.org/creativity/workshops/

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Medalta in the Historic Clay District
Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics 
713 Medalta Ave SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 3L8