Wheel thrown and assembled domestic ware with Canadian artist Joan Bruneau 15 – 17 January 2007
9am-5pm Ceramics Workshop School of Art Canberra
Cost: $300.00 gst inclusive (Small materials fee is additional / Coffee & tea provided)

Joan will lead participants in exploring form in relation to meaning and function through combined throwing and handbuilding techniques. The wheel will be used as a tool in part of the forming process to further utilize the plasticity of the material and dynamic volume. Students should have basic throwing skills.

Altering techniques such as stacking, coil throwing, cut and paste, and slump moulds, will be introduced to further manipulate wheel thrown forms. Participants will be encouraged to develop their individual vocabulary of form and techniques through a series of projects. Demonstrations will include throwing and handbuilding techniques as well as slide lectures.

Joan Bruneau is a studio potter who has maintained her studio and gallery, Nova Terra Cotta, in Lunenburg,
Nova Scotia, Canada since 1995. She is a regular part time Faculty at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and was Assistant Professor at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design from 1998 – 2002. Known for her distinctive wheel thrown and altered earthenware pots, Joan exhibits and teaches workshops across Canada and the US. She received the 2004 Winifred Shantz Award, which funded her research of European tin glazed pottery at La Meridiana International Ceramics Center
in Italy in 2005. She earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1988 and MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1993. Her work and CV can
be viewed on her web site: www.JoanBruneau.com