Classes are Filled First Come, First Served
Register Early!
Class Availability
Wheel and Hand building classes are offered during Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer, too. Classes are held at the Waterloo Potters’ Workshop at the Eby Farmhouse in Waterloo Park. Each course is 8 nights over 9 weeks: six weeks working with clay, one week off for pots to dry, one week to glaze and an exciting final night to review your work and celebrate with classmates.
NOTE: Fall classes are full. Please sign up for a winter, spring or summer class, or find a class with one of our member potters offering classes in Waterloo Region: Sculption, Mermaid Springs Pottery, and L'Abbé Pottery are a few.
Classes Offered
While these classes are geared to beginners, students with previous experience are welcome. Please note that the wheel class can be physically demanding. If you have back, wrist or elbow issues you are advised to proceed at your own risk.
Handbuilding Class
This course covers essential handbuilding techniques for creating both decorative and functional pieces. You learn how to use slabs, molds, coils, pinch pots, handles, decorative effects and more to create bowls, serving dishes, mugs or decorative objects. With handbuilding you have more time to focus on decoration and play with form. These are useful skills to then combine with the wheel.
Wheel Class
Learn to throw on the wheel. Start with bowls, mugs, and progress to plates or larger objects. Learn techniques for creating and attaching handles. If you’re very ambitious you might want to make a teapot!
Class Sizes are Small
Each class has space for 8 participants in wheel and 10 in handbuilding, and we need to fill classes in order to run them, so feel free to bring a friend, family member or fellow enthusiast! Spaces fill quickly, so to avoid disappointment, remember to email or send in a form with payment asap.
How to Register
For all classes, please complete the online form OR you may download the form here. Then send in your payment ASAP as spots are assigned as cheques are received. Make cheques payable to Waterloo Potters’ Workshop or WPW postdated to the class start date. Mail to the address on the form in order to secure your spot.
Questions?
Contact Dawn at adultclasses(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)waterloopotters.ca. Please allow for a delayed response as it is busy season.
What More Advanced Classes?
Become a member and have access to the specialized classes and workshops for Members.
2019 Class Schedule Winter, Spring and Summer
Each course is 8 nights over 9 weeks. (One week without a class to accommodate firing)
Please note when registering: spots are allocated based on the date your cheque is received. At this time we can only accept payment by cheque made out to WPW. We appreciate your patience.
- Wheel 1 (Wednesdays) – January 2 – February 27, 2019 (Winter Term)
- Wheel 1 (Thursdays) – January 3 – February 28, 2019 (Winter Term)
- Handbuilding 1 (Wednesdays) – January 2 – February 27, 2019 (Winter Term)
- Wheel 1 (Wednesdays) – March 20 – May 15, 2019 (Spring Term)
- Wheel 1 (Thursdays) – March 21 – May 16, 2019 (Spring Term)
- Handbuilding 1 (Wednesdays) – March 20 – May 15, 2019 (Spring Term)
- Wheel 1 (Wednesdays) – June 5 – July 31, 2019 (Summer Term)
- Wheel 1 (Thursdays) – June 6 – August 1, 2019 (Summer Term)
- Handbuilding 1 (Wednesdays) – June 6 – July 31, 2019 (Summer Term)
Coming Soon. Accepting a Waiting List with Registration and Payment. (Spaces are filled based on waiting lists and first come first serve registrants who have submitted a form along with payment.)
Due to an overwhelming response to our online form submission, our Fall session Wheel I classes are filled to capacity with those who have already submitted forms and payment, or have been on a waiting list and therefore receive priority placement. We apologize for any inconvenience, and will confirm a spot in a later session, once your form and cheque or money order has also been received. Book early to avoid disappointment!
Note that each Wheel I class has a maximum capacity of 8 participants, and the Handbuilding I class has a maximum of 10 participants. Please be mindful if you have already taken the class for which you are interested in enrolling and consider becoming a member rather than repeating the session, where you will have access to more intermediate classes. Also, for groups of three or more, we may not be able to accommodate everyone depending on when your payment and form is received as it is on a first come-first served basis.
We will do everything we can to accommodate everyone as best we can. Thanks so much for your patience as we work on an online payment format that will enable everyone to register, pay and be enrolled in one transaction.
Course Fees
$251.99 per course, includes materials, firing, glazing, tools and taxes.
Register
Please use our online form OR download the form here. Then send your fee payment ASAP to confirm your spot (first come, first served). Sorry, we are still only accepting cheques but hope to have online payment available in the new year.
Jen Williams demonstrates throwing on the pottery wheel.
A student makes a vase with a carved slab wrapped around a cylinder.