courses
Wheel Throwing Courses
Learn wheel throwing in our beginner class. You’ll learn the skills that will form the foundation of your ceramic practice including wedging, centering, throwing cylinders and bowls, trimming, pulling handles, and glazing. By the end of the course, you will have produced a number of pieces like mugs and bowls.
Beginner Courses
fall 2024
new 0ctober
Beginner Wheel
$390 + GST
This is a compressed class that will help you get the most learning out of your studio time!
You’ll finish the class with a number of finished pieces.
Dates: Wednesdays and Fridays, 6-9pm
October 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 30, which is the mandatory glaze class*
6 spots
Wedge offers a refund minus $25 administration fee if cancellation is requested until Sept 25. After Sept 25, no refund will be given. At this time, Wedge is unable to offer credit. Missing one class is fine, you can make the time up. The only unmissable class is the glaze class.
November
Beginner Wheel
$390 + GST
This is a compressed class that will help you get the most learning out of your studio time!
You’ll finish the class with a number of finished pieces!
Dates: Tuesdays 6-9pm and Saturdays 9am-12pm
November 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 30 (mandatory glaze class)
6 spots
Wedge offers a refund minus $25 administration fee if cancellation is requested prior to September 30. Afterward, no refund will be given. At this time, Wedge is unable to offer credit.
Meet your instructors
John Cattie
We can’t promise he’ll wear an anklet or speedy sunglasses but, we can almost guarantee a good time.
John was an active potter as a teen in Delaware. His origin story includes going to a ceramics camp in Sarnia, ON, where the above photos were snapped. John picked up where he left off in 2020 when he scored a highly coveted mid-pandemic Facebook marketplace find: an $800 home studio set-up. John’s recent fan favourites include throwing a mean mug, the perfect ramen-sized bowl, and a “summer beverage pitcher set.” He will fight to keep his throw lines, “they’re my signature style!” but will still teach you how to make a smooth vessel, if that’s your jam.
John meets people where they are at and works with different learning styles. Wedge strives to create a positive, creative, encouraging, and inclusive learning environment.
Brenna Ward
Just vibing.
Brenna started her pottery journey in 2021 taking courses at the local college and tried to make a DIY home studio work. Spoiler: it didn’t. The garage didn’t have a sink, the living room was too dusty, and everywhere else in the house has carpet. Brenna has been working on her own practice at Wedge, and has expanded to slab building, including making a small clay Lake O’Hara Warden cabin!
Brenna is the assistant instructor, able to offer additional hands-on advice, and another way of doing things. There’s no right way to do pottery, except when there is only one way.
She’ll help with general vibes and be flitting around taking your photo for social media (consensually, of course).