Brenda Nieves is a sculptor, ceramic artist, living and working in her studio in the Junction in Toronto. Nieves trained at Sheridan College in the Craft and Design program from 2015 to 2016. Her earlier career was designing children’s clothing, then as a Fashion Director for Eaton’s. Nieves works in multiple medias, primarily in clay but also explores fabric, painting and printmaking. Brenda Nieves focuses on hand building, including coil, slab, slamming, forming, and carving and incorporating thrown elements. Her practice includes both additive and subtractive processes. Nieves' passion for colour is reflected in her use of multiple glazes and their exciting results. Brenda describes her work as expressing “an image of the natural world transformed in clay and glaze." Nieves' creative life is a composite formed by the life she has lived with fragments of memories, excursions north coloring the visions she has for her work. The power of the human spirit is mirrored in her representation of the power of water, rocks and growth. The impetus to create art full time is her desire to make life precious for both herself and those who engage in her work.

Gillian Preston is the artist and founder of Broken Plates. She works out of Pittsburgh, PA, where she creates fine art in addition to her line of glass wearables. She studied glass at the Cleveland Institute of Art under Brent Kee Young with a strong emphasis on drawing, earning her BFA in glass. As a result of these dual interests, Preston combines the intimate qualities of hand drawn imagery with contemporary and traditional glass practices to bring light and character to her ideas and narratives. Her work has been recognized In New Glass Review 29 and 31 and is currently on exhibition in boutiques and galleries internationally. Preston's line of glass jewelry is called Broken Plates. These glass wearables are cut from the surface of hand blown glass. The process begins in a hot glass studio. Here, layers of bold, crisp colors are applied to molten glass and blown into a flat surface (or plate). This will serve as the canvas for the final products. The pieces are either infused with hand drawn imagery or left as a raw, organic surface. Each wearable is cut by hand or with the use of a CNC waterjet. Then, they get polished and fashioned into their final form. The name "Broken Plates" is a reference to the work’s origin. The result is a highly unique line of jewelry that transcends current trends and captures the stunning qualities of hand blown glass. This sculptural series of glass wearables is an excuse to experiment with new textures and materials. The pieces explore the more tactile experiences one might only have once deviating from a two dimensional format.  Each glasswork plays with form and light and interacts with the contours of the body. These translucent terrains use repetition to create their undulating forms while they refract the light and hug the body.

Bruce Cochrane is an internationally acclaimed ceramic artist and recently retired Professor of Ceramics at Sheridan College. In over 30 years of teaching, he was instrumental in developing the Ceramic Program’s national reputation. He is one of Canada’s pre-eminent ceramic artists, with work featured in international public and private collections. Cochrane's studies began at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and continued in Alfred, New York at the New York State College of Ceramics, where he received his Masters of Fine Art. Since graduating in 1978, he has participated in over 300 exhibitions. Cochrane continues to share his knowledge in lectures and workshops throughout North America. Cochrane's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and Gardiner Museum in Toronto; Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa; and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. Cochrane lives in Toronto and maintains his studio practice in Grey Highlands, Ontario.

Discover an exclusive collaboration by artists Bruce Cochrane and Zsuzsa Monostory. Mississauga, Ontario-based potter Bruce Cochrane is inspired by traditions of vessel making and how historical models are reinterpreted and revitalized to have more relevance to contemporary society. Hungarian-Canadian ceramist Zsuzsa Monostory draws on her background as a biologist to sculpt animal figures that reflect her subjects' ways of life, social structures, and behaviours.

Carly Waito is a Toronto-based designer, potter and artist. Born in Manitouwadge, ON in 1981, Waito studied Industrial Design at OCAD. She co-founded the ceramic studio coe&waito with Alissa Coe in 2005. She has also maintained a fine art practice with a focus on oil painting. She has worked as a Decorative Arts Designer for internationally renowned Interior Design firm Yabu Pushelberg and is currently co-founding partner of Good Eye Decorative Arts & Design. Waito has been creating wheel thrown pottery for the past four years.

Glass artist Carol Nesbitt creates original and functional designs, as well as one-of-a-kind sculptural pieces. Her work is inspired by nature and the beauty that surrounds us every day. Nesbitt is drawn to the fluidity of glass and its endless possibilities. Her appreciation for glass emerged during the “hot process”, when she creates a variety of organic forms, patterns, and colours. Surface texture and interior optics are given special attention with each piece she produces. Nesbitt studied glassblowing at Sheridan College’s School of Craft and Design, followed by a one-year independent study program. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and galleries across Canada and the United States, and is included in private collections in Canada, the United States, England, and Ireland.

Carolina Delgado-Duruflé is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist and interior designer based in Toronto. She studied at the Glasgow Art School in Scotland, the Bogotá campus of LaSalle College, and the Universidad Pontificia Javeriana in Bogotá. Her works have been exhibited in the US, UK, Colombia, and Canada.

Catharina Goldnau explores transitions, juxtaposing traditions, and materials in sculptural work that borders functionality. Born next to the Iron Curtain in Germany, she moved to Canada at the age of 19. After academic studies, four children and a teaching career, Catharina studied ceramics under Linda Sormin and Bruce Cochrane. She is an award-winning graduate with a BA in Craft and Design and a specialty in Ceramics from Sheridan College. Forming clay by hand complements the intellectual task of manipulating clay and glaze chemistry. Catharina Goldnau is compelled to innovate, exploring non-traditional ways to manipulate clays. Combining alternative materials with clay yields intriguing variations of form and unusual finish.  The effects of heat and fire play a pan-ultimate role in altering the piece, creating new forms and surfaces, tearing and splitting in the fire. Resins and textiles may complement sculptural pieces.

Celina Kang is a ceramic artist based in Burlington, Ontario. Since obtaining a degree in Ceramics, she has been practicing the craft for  more than twenty years. Focusing on texture and shape, Kang creates works inspired by nature and earth, including stone, sand, clay, and mineral forms. Her work is available at galleries and art fairs across Ontario.

Christy Chor received her BA in Craft and Design from Sheridan College. She has participated in many local and international ceramic exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, and Serbia. Chor has received several academic and art scholarships. She was also recognized as an Emerging Ceramic Artist at the 2018 Fusion Clay and Glass Show in Toronto. Before immigrating to Canada from Hong Kong to study ceramics, she worked as a creative director and project manager. Nature is the fountain of Christy’s inspirations. The majesty of the landscape, the orchestra of wildlife and the experiences of life are all part of the “flow” of life. It is a pleasure to observe and capture the grace and poetry of nature.  The flow, tranquility, dynamic vitality of natural beings, moments of solidarity, heartfelt interactions between humans are the stimuli for her immersive imagination.

Claudine Monicon is from the Outaouais region of western Quebec. Each piece of jewellery is hand-made in her studio in Longueuil with the help of a small team of talented local jewellers using traditional artisanal practices. Monicon completed a bachelor's and master's degree in Architecture at the Université de Montreal. She has trained at the Contemporary Jewelry School Alchimia in Florence, Italy; the El Taller Workshop in Barcelona, Spain; and the BKMW School in Brooklyn, NY.

Colouring It Forward is a social enterprise including a not-for-profit organization called CIF Reconciliation Society and a business called Colouring It Forward Inc. The purpose of the social enterprise is to advance education on Indigenous issues, art, language, and culture through a grassroots approach. CIF Reconciliation Society works in collaboration with organizations such as Kamotaan Consulting and Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society to deliver art-based workshops and events that provide education on Indigenous ways of knowing and promote healing and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Diana Frost is the inspiration behind Colouring It Forward. Originally from Quebec, Frost spent her teenage years in Western Africa, which was an early awakening to different cultures and the difficulties of living in a developing country. Following that experience, she obtained a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Sherbrooke with the intention of helping people to improve their standard of living by working on water and sanitation projects. Frost is an Algonquin Métis, an artist, and a musician. A percentage of the proceeds from the colouring books goes to the artists and elders, as well as community projects to generate jobs, and support small businesses and education programming.

Corey Moranis is a Canadian artist and designer specializing in Lucite jewellery. She studied in the Textile Department at OCAD University. Corey Moranis favours Lucite because of its capacity for colour, and its playful and mesmerizing light effects. Each necklace, ring, bracelet, and pair of earrings is a wearable art object, handcrafted with singular care and attention. Each lucite piece is hand crafted and hand shaped.  Uses a ring rod to shape the ring for sizing only. If you treat your piece with care, it will last forever.  The biggest concern with Lucite is scratching. To avoid scratching, try not to drop or crush your jewelry. Store your jewelry in a safe spot, away from direct sunlight. If you are traveling with your piece, protect it in your luggage by keeping it away from other hard objects.  It is natural for plastic to get a bit dirty overtime, fingerprints and smudges can accumulate on surfaces. If you notice your piece could be cleaned up, use water and a soft, non-fuzzing cloth. Do not use a glass cleaner.  Keep away from perfume.

Corinne Lawless is a potter, traveler and former teacher who is based in Pickering, ON. She finds her inspiration in harmonies that govern our universe, and strives to capture the essence of those forces in her pieces, combining classic forms with contemporary crystalline glazes which evoke the beauty of the atomic landscape.

Courtney Downman is a Canadian Glass Artist, Instructor, and current Artist-in-Residence at the Living Arts Centre glass studio in Mississauga, Ontario. She began working with glass in 2012 after enrolling in the Craft and Design program at Sheridan College.  After a year, she was hired as a teaching assistant to the glass program.  In 2016, Courtney was awarded a two year Artist-in-Residence fellowship at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.  After completing her Bachelors at Sheridan in Craft and Design, she returned to her residency at the Living Arts. She continues her glass practice and participates in shows and juried exhibitions including most recently the 2023 Carnegi Craft.

Composed of Dan and Nisha Ferguson, who met while attending the Art Centre of Central Technical School in Toronto, DaNisha is a delicate balance of two artistic souls working in tandem. They integrate their talents and ideas in order to bring objects of beauty into the world. Their pieces are expressions of joy and wonder to be shared by all who see them.

David Migwans is a contemporary artist based on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. His works include ceramics, paintings, and carved sculptures based on contemporary and traditional Ojibwe art styles. He received an Honours in Fine Art at Cambrian College. David Migwans was a Jury Member of Craft Projects with the Ontario Art Council, and led the Whisper of Spirit Artist Symposium with the Canada Council for the Arts. He has published articles for Akewekon Literary Journal and FUSION Magazine, and held numerous exhibitions throughout Canada. His works can be seen at Whetung Art Gallery, Serpent River Trading Post, Canadian Guild of Craft, and Indian Hills Gallery.

Dconstruct is formed by Lisa and Sean Reico, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Together, their mission is to innovate using eco-friendly material while also supporting the community at large. The materials they work with include 40% recycled resins, organic materials, and hand woven weaves. Developed by skilled artisans in diverse regions around the world. Although Lisa and Sean have no formal training in the fine arts, their respective decade long interest and passion for architecture and design inspired them to start Dconstruct jewelry and home goods.

Debra Sloan first took pottery classes when she was 16 leading her to a lifetime working with clay. After traveling for a year from 1972, she started in a self-directed apprenticeship from 1973 to 1979 where she managed a pottery school. She then attended the Vancouver School of Art from 1979 to 1982, and later attained her BFA from ECUAD in 2005. By the mid 1980’s, she started a family and now has four adult children and five grandchildren. Throughout the decades, she maintained a studio practice, taught clay sculpture classes, served on provincial craft boards, adjudicated, presented talks, published essays on ceramics, and has been collecting and writing about the 100-year ceramic history in BC. Debra’s work is exhibited and held in collections, regionally, nationally, and internationally. She has received provincial, national and international grants and awards, and attended international residencies, including most recently, in 2019, a residency at Shigaraki, Japan, supported by a Canada Council grant. Emerging from the Covid-years, in 2022 she participated in a collaboration with the Craft Council of BC (CCBC) and the Joe Ink Dance Company for a successful theatrical Dance/Craft production. Additionally very significantly, during 2022, the CCBC digitized her BC Ceramic Mark Registry, Debra’s compilation of over 500 BC ceramic marks, along with artist profiles. Debra Sloan has served as President of the North-West Ceramics Foundation since 2018, which in 2023 will celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Eekta Trienekens grew up in the Netherlands and lived in the medieval cities of Amersfoort and Leiden before moving to Canada a little over a decade ago. Her mother is from Punjab, India, and Eekta spent many seasons there for extended visits with her grandparents. The extreme contrast between these two worlds is a strong influence in her work, oscillating between a sense of belonging and otherness. She has a degree in Arts Education (Utrecht) and South Asian Studies (Leiden). Though Eekta works in a variety of materials, ceramics has been her main artistic practice since 2015. Since fall 2015, she has been spending most of her available time in the potters studio. She's so grateful to have this opportunity as a member of the wonderful community of the Waterloo Potters Workshop. Each and every day she am learning and enjoying the many processes and techniques that come with working with clay. ​

Eiko Maeda graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan. She is currently based in Woodbridge, Ontario. Maeda trained in ceramics at the Visual Arts Center in Montreal and learned nerikomi under Eiji Murofushi in Fuji, Japan. Nerikomi is a decorative process that involves stacking colored clay and slicing through the cross section to reveal a pattern. The focus of Eiko Maeda's work is creating contemporary designs using traditional Japanese methods and forms.

Enarmoured is handcrafted fine art jewellery created by artist Jordan Clarke in Toronto, Ontario. Working with brass and silver, Jordan creates bold, elegant, and timeless pieces of small-batch jewellery. Her background in Fine Art informs Jordan’s approach to design. Inspired by ancient armour, her collection explores the idea of protective adornment as both feminine and elegant. Starting with a brass or silver sheet, each piece is hand cut, filed, pierced, sanded, and surface finished using various techniques and finally assembled. With a process that is entirely hands-on, Jordan uses hand tools the traditional way without relying on large equipment to do the work. Each piece of jewellery, from the initial sketch to completion, is formed lovingly by hand. Each piece of jewellery, from the initial sketch to completion, is formed lovingly by hand. Using both traditional and innovative jewellery-making techniques, Jordan creates unique pieces of wearable art.

Enas Satir is a Sudanese multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Ontario. She works with ceramics, illustrations, video making, storytelling and photography. Her art is focused on political art, issues of race, blackness and African identity. Taking inspiration from the beauty and complexity of her country, Sudan. Enas started their career as an architect after graduating from the University of Khartoum, Faculty of Architecture in 2007. Working as an architect for 5 years gave her the start to creative thinking, focusing on 3D rendering, leading to graphic design.  Obtaining a Master's degree in graphic design in Florence, Italy in 2013, she started to explore with mixed media and ceramics.  She continues her practice experimenting with different mediums and designs.

Farheen Ali is a Toronto-based illustrator and jewellery artist. A medical illustrator by profession, Farheen has always been intrigued by organic forms and colors that exist in nature. Her training in landscape watercolour and Japanese sumi-e painting has inspired her to pay careful attention to and capture natural shapes in her artwork. Six years ago, she started to experiment with wire wrapped jewelry and discovered that she could create organic shapes and forms not just on a flat surface but in 3D as well. She now works with a palette of unique beads and found objects to create wearable pieces of art. Farheen’s works consist mostly of stainless steel and copper wire-wrapped statement necklaces, pendants and earrings. These utilize upcycled materials mixed with raw stones, Swarovski crystals and pearls. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and tells its own story depending on the where the different elements that create it have come from. When starting to build a statement necklace, Farheen Ali starts by selecting a unique bead or stone, which will become the focal point of the piece. Then using steel wire, wire cutters, pliers and dremel she drills holes and wraps a variety of other complementary beads and crystals one by one, building the necklace on a dress form, similar to as one builds a painting, stroke by stroke. Color and composition play an important role and as the piece grows. Adding different tints and textures results in creating balance and movement to the necklace, until the piece is complete.

Filipa Pimentel was born in Cascais, Portugal and grew up in the suburbs of Toronto. She studied Ceramics at OCAD University and graduated in 2008. Filipa has established a ceramic design business focused on functional tableware and decorative art pieces. She is fascinated by the ocean and draws her inspiration from trips to Portugal and the Caribbean.

Florence Chik-Lau graduated from the Ontario College of Art, working as a graphic designer in Toronto for many years. Clay became her primary artistic medium after relocating to Prince Edward County, Ontario. Since then, Florence's sculptures have been selected to participate in many prestigious juried shows including Fireworks, McMichael Fall Art Sale, and the Animal Stories Show at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Florence Chik-Lau's work celebrates the special affinity between human and animal as well as the beauty that exists in all creatures. She strives to capture the character as well as the spirit of my animal subjects while exploring a broad range of universal emotions such as love, friendship, tolerance, loneliness and sadness. Beneath the gentle and beguiling animal exterior, deeper emotions and meaning are hopefully captured in the subject's gesture and expression. Florence Chik-Lau uses a very organic process of creating. The element of chance are allowed to influence the posture and the attitude of the finished sculpture. All her work is completely created by hand with slabs of clay and finished with many thin layers of ceramic stains and a touch of clear glaze. They are fired at least twice in a kiln. The surface of the sculpture is sometimes smooth, and sometimes highly textured. Each piece is unique and no two are exactly alike. Some of her recent works are anthropomorphic in nature. Whether they are true to life or hybrid, the animals are always portrayed with warmth, humour and dignity.

Gerri Orwin is a ceramic artist based in Cabbagetown, Tornto. In 2000, she ended her decades long career in Advertising as a Toronto, and New York producer.  Which includes the following fields: music, film, video and special effects productions.  Upon retiring, having always been interested in archeology, she discovered clay.  She was drawn specifically to the hand-building techniques employed by Ancient Artisans. Throughout the past 20 plus years, Gerri gives back to the community.  Volunteering her time to teach seniors and held executive positions with the Burlington Potters Guild, Toronto Potters, FUSION Clay and Glass Association, the Annual Cabbagetown Arts and Craft Outdoor Show, and sustaining volunteer at the Gardiner Museum. She continues to practice her craft and works exclusively with the Gardiner Shop creating limited collections.

Gordon Boyd was born and raised in Northern Manitoba, growing up inspired by the colours of the landscape around him, he began painting and drawing at a young age. After being introduced to glass in 2015, he moved to Ontario to study the craft. While completing his Bachelors of Craft and Design at Sheridan College, Gordon worked in a variety of studios learning how to care for and build the equipment. He used his free time to continue his exploration of glass. Currently Gordon Boyd is working as an artist-in-residence at the Living Art Centre in Mississauga. Here he refines his craft and is preparing to return to Manitoba to open his own studio which began construction in mid-2020.

Gwen Friedman works out of her downtown Toronto studio, where she produces delicate, functional ceramic art. She was born in southern Africa, and trained at the Kim Sacks School of Ceramics in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was the recipient of the 2021 Craft Ontario Award of Excellence, at the Toronto Potters’ Biennial Juried Exhibition.

Henderson Dry Goods is a company founded by Alex Henderson, a Port Moody, British Columbia-based industrial designer and artist. Born in Calgary and raised in Saskatoon, Henderson moved to Vancouver in 2000 and began her post-secondary education in the Fine Arts program at Langara College before entering Emily Carr’s Industrial Design program. In 2008, she established Henderson Dry Goods. Working from her home studio, Henderson designs and manufactures small home decor items, most notably a line of  popular Christmas ornaments, in small batch runs. Her pieces are playful, nostalgic, and quirky. She draws on a personal iconography that reflects her upbringing on the Canadian prairies and her current surroundings in the awe-inspiring landscapes of British Columbia. Henderson Dry Goods by Alex Henderson is proud to describe their work as "Canadiana."

Amy Rogers designs accessories for people and their spaces. While her hands are constantly making, her concepts and inspiration are wide-ranging and the results are just as varied, from fine art to finely-crafted jewellery. Amy studied Fiber Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute and Mixed Media at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She also spent 10 years working in the New York fashion industry. Amy sells her unique jewellery under the name Here and Here, a nod to the connections she holds to the many cities she has lived in. Amy's most recent pieces are the result of intuitively working with clay, often combined with leather and fiber accents. Amy aims to create pieces that are bold and joyful, with designs that are playful and even anti-serious.

Humade is a company founded by sisters Gieke and Lotte in Amsterdam, Netherlands. They strive to create products that are made specifically for the customer and their character. Using unorthodox material and techniques, they offer simplicity and keep the essence of design. Sharing a passion and true dedication they find balance between man, product and space.

Isabel Amos is an architectural designer based in Toronto, Canada. Her work is interdisciplinary blending ink on paper, watercolour, and digital techniques. Isabel’s practice grew during her years completing a Master’s of Architecture at the University of Toronto; and has continued to grow through focus on atmosphere and storytelling.

James Wardhaugh was born in Edmonton in 1986. Growing up in the Ottawa area he first attended post secondary education at the Haliburton School of Art + Design for art fundamentals, and then glass. He then attended the craft and design program at Sheridan College where he majored in glass. After graduating, he stayed on one extra year working at a teaching assistant. He then went on to work for several glass studies including Tsunami Glassworks, the Jeff Goodman studio, and the Living Arts Center. He also worked with many other independent artists. James Wardhaugh uses glass color and form to create works that have an elemental feel to them. James is inspired by the natural beauty of the world as well as chemical properties and reactions. His work can be found in galleries across Canada.

After graduating from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario Jane Wilson studied ceramics in the Design Program at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario and later at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta. Since 1981, her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States. Jane Wilson presently lives and works from her studio in the country near the village of Millbrook. “I think of clay as a touchstone, linking different worlds and traditions.  Making pots is an encounter with these worlds and a way of connecting with areas of experience, which are larger than oneself. From the beginning of pot making, it seems to me that the potter’s task has been to find a unity between form and surface.  My relationship to the integration of form and surface is the thread that binds the different aspects of my work together and continues to be my greatest pleasure and challenge as a potter.”

Janet Macpherson is a ceramic artist.  She earned her Bachelors degree in philosophy from York University, and studied ceramics at Sheridan College. She acquired an MFA from The Ohio State University, and has been the recipient of a research grant from The Canada Council for the Arts.  Janet's achievements include: The Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics in 2013, the RBC Emerging Artists Studio Set-up Award presented by Craft Ontario, and exhibiting Bestiary at the Gardiner Museum in 2017. She currently practices her craft and resides in Hamilton, Ontario.

Jess Riva Cooper is an artist and educator based in Toronto, integrating colour, drawing, clay and numerous other materials to create sculptures and installation-based artworks. In many of Cooper’s sculptures the world sprouts plant matter. Colour and form burst forth from quiet gardens and bring chaos to ordered spaces. Nature undergoes a reclamation process by creeping over structures, subverting past states and creating a preternatural transformation. Cooper received her BFA from NSCAD and her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. She widely exhibits her work and has participated in numerous artist residencies such as Medalta (Alberta), The Archie Bray Foundation (Montana), and The Kohler Arts/Industry Program (Wisconsin).

Jing Han Yang is a multidisciplinary artist whose work aims to obscure familiar environments and objects. Yang is inspired by the simultaneousbanality and visual maximalism of commercial media. Many of their works look at themes of interpersonal relationships and bodily autonomy. Clay and printmaking figure as natural mediums for Yang to communicate their ideas. They feel clay can be plastic yet rigid, capturing both the permanence of an environment or object and the impermanence of memory. Printmaking, for Yang, is about replicating symbols, shapes, and ideas and therefore an appropriate medium to use in an investigation of commercialism. Their work has been exhibited at Visual Arts Mississauga, Sheridan College, and the Art Museum. Yang will be pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from Jingdezhen Ceramic University in September of 2023. "I am an artist as much as I am an educator. I am interested in creating work that inspires and drives people to create their own work. I want to encourage people to understand material and texture and to be closer to the objects they interact with every day. I enjoy playing with new forms of media and employing the elements of printmaking to them. I am experimenting with shifting wide-held perspectives on what is commonplace and reconsidering them as spectacular."

Ontario-based potter Jocelyn Jenkins makes both functional and sculptural work inspired by her daily life. She uses sgraffito to decorate hand-built and wheel-thrown pieces, blurring the line between decoration and narration.

In 1971, John Ikeda established a studio pottery in Lethbridge, Alberta shortly after graduation from the University of Lethbridge, with a BA in Fine Arts.  Creating functional pottery and sculpture in high-fired stoneware and porcelain in his studio in 1978, he moved east and established his current studio in St. Bernardin, Ontario. Set in a rural setting close to nature, the adventure of acquiring unfamiliar practical skills of carpentry, plumbing, electrical mechanics, arboriculture horticulture, and firewood processing is a challenge for the artist.  However, it is rewarding for the goal of self-reliance and seeking a meaningful personal integration in the creation of a life and of art.

Juana Berinstein is a ceramic artist whose identity as an immigrant, queer, Latinx (Argentine), and Jewish maker is reflected through themes of social justice in her work. Juana was an artist in residence at Medalta Historic Clay District.

Julie Moon is a Toronto-based ceramic artist whose practice is deeply rooting in the process of making. Her work ranges from figurative and abstract sculpture to functional pottery and accessories. Julie graduated from the Material Art and Design Program at OCAD University in 2005 and received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2010. She has exhibited extensively in Toronto and the US.

Karin Pavey is a ceramic instructor and artist.  She began her ceramic studies in Sweden. She is a graduate of both Sheridan College and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), where she received a BFA. Karin has taught at the Gardiner Museum, Sheridan College, the ROM, and currently for the Toronto District School Board. Through in-class demonstrations and dialogue, she strives to encourage a passion for making objects out of clay. Karin is an established and respected Canadian potter whose colourful tableware has been exhibited in North America and Europe. She creates her work in her Bloor West studio.  She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including grants from the Ontario Arts Council, and her work has been showcased extensively in both public and private collections.

Karla Rivera is a ceramic artist born and raised in Mexico City. She listened to her artistic voice and got involved in the world of ceramics, obtaining a Bachelor degree of Craft and Design in Ceramics from Sheridan College in 2021. She currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario where she continues her studio practice. Karla Rivera's work consists of both functional and sculptural ceramics. She is interested in the forms that make the connections between the structures of nature. These include ideas such as the shape of an island and the emotional states of the human mind. From these ideas, she tries to interpret and project them.

Kathy Kranias is a Toronto based artist. Her ceramic sculptures are represented in the Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection (AWBZ), and the international exhibition A New Light: Canadian Women Artists at the Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Washington D.C.  She has also  presented in solo exhibitions.  This includes David Kaye Gallery in Toronto, Canada and the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Canada.  Additionally, Kathy has exhibited in twenty regional and international juried exhibitions with six accompanying catalogue publications. From 1990 to 1998 Kathy was a visual arts teacher with the Toronto District School Board.  In 2004 to 2012 she was a studio faculty in the Craft and Design Program at Sheridan College.  She has lectured and published essays, reviews and articles on Canadian Art and Craft in The Journal of Modern Craft, Studio Magazine, and The Journal of Canadian Art History, among others. She holds a BFA from Concordia University, and a BEd in Visual Arts from University of Toronto.  As well, she holds a MA from York University, where she was awarded the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Kathy began her journey in clay almost 20 years ago in an evening adult class, while being a new mother in a northern town of Alberta, Canada. Clay soon became a medium that excited all aspects of Kathy’s personality. She loved the science , physicality and expression available in the firing process and clay itself. From these humble beginnings, she became a member of the Hill Potters Guild in Richmond Hill, ON, and enjoys the use of her own studio in Kingston, ON. She has really grown since taking FUSION’s mentorship (Creative Pathways) with Lesley McInally. Her other influences and mentors include Loren Kaplan and Angelo DiPetta.

Katja van den Enden is a German-born, experimental, abstract artist living and working in Newmarket, Ontario. Her practice ranges from mixed media paintings to sculpture. She has worked professionally and exhibited her work in public and private galleries for the past 15 years, including Gallery 1313, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Aurora Cultural Centre, Latcham Art Gallery, the McKay Art Centre, Propeller Gallery, John B. Aird Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. Katja van den Enden is a three-time Exhibition Assistance Grant recipient from the Ontario Art Council (2016/ 2017/2018). In 2018, she was awarded a residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Katja has received awards from the Orillia Museum of Art and History, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and the Latcham Gallery.

Kerri Jerome’s work is inspired by nature and the organic properties and materiality of clay. Motivated by a lifetime of environmental activism, she uses sgraffito, painting, and sculpture to express the importance of environmental stewardship. Although she was introduced to clay while working in a wholesale slip-cast studio, Jerome’s love for the medium revealed itself at a young age. As a youth she received a post-secondary diploma in painting and illustration and continued her studies under the tutelage of accomplished potters and artists. Her work has been presented in juried shows and festivals throughout Ontario. ​

Trained at George Brown College, Toronto-based maker Korinna Azreiq is the designer behind Kormar. After graduating from college, Korinna worked predominantly with precious metals and gem stones, using traditional casting techniques. In 2013, she discovered 3D computer modelling and printing, which completely changed her approach to design and choice of materials. Korina Launched in 2015 Kormar, offering affordable and eco friendly alternatives to massed produced jewellry. Korinna’s work explores nature inspired shapes by using 3D modelling software. Computer aided design is a very unique way to sculpt different objects, which helps to materialize mini sculptures out of this world. Most of Korinna’s jewellery is made out of 3D printed nylon, a very light durable material.  The colour is applied after the object is printed with fabric dyes.  The objects are printed with the SLS method, allowing to print interlocked complex shapes in one print.    

Kristin Bjornerud holds a BFA from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta as well as an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Ontario Arts Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her work is represented in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Ottawa, Sask Arts and the Brucebo Museum (Sweden). Kristin is a Professional Member of RAAV (Le Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec) and a member of Montréal’s La Centrale Feminist Artist Run Centre.

Krystyne Griffin is a Toronto based designer who works with metalsmiths and bead weavers to produce one-of-a-kind jewellery. With a background in the fashion industry, Griffin creates her coveted piece using hand-polished silver and gold, beads, coins, and coral sourced from her extensive travels.

Lisa Martini-Dunk is a scratchboard artist and printmaker.  She studied and graduated with Honours at the University of Guelph in the Fine Art program, and the Creative Arts and Graphic Design program at Georgian College.  It was at this stage she moved from acrylic painting towards scratchboard art and printmaking. Lisa’s scratchboard artworks come from her adoration of fairytale books given to her by her grandmother and father.  Gaining a deep appreciation of non-existent worlds where anything impossible was possible.  Her illustrations are satirical using animals to expose human folly.  The intention is to connect with the viewer and tapping into untainted imagination of childhood that lies within. Lisa Martini-Dunk is presently based in Peterborough, Ontario where she continues to illustrate on scratchboard.    

Larch Wood Canada specializes in creating beautiful end grain cutting boards handmade from eastern Canadian larch (Larix laricina). Also known locally as tamarack and juniper, the company sources this renewable resource from sustainably managed local woodlots.

Since 1990 Larry has been making finely crafted wood turnings from Southern Ontario hardwoods: heirloom quality one piece salad bowls, unique burl wood bowls, vases and hollow forms, as well as an assortment of small functional kitchen items, decorative tureen and cutting boards. Recipient of numerous awards his work has attracted many patrons far and wide. He lives in a century old fieldstone schoolhouse and works from a small studio on the property.

Marjan Hassaneini, the founder of Lemarsis Design, has a rich background in the arts. In 1992, she graduated from the Cultural Heritage University of Iran with a degree in Traditional Arts and went on to teach others in the field. Her passion for art led her to explore various forms, eventually forging her own unique style that blends miniature painting, pottery, and ceramics. With 31 years of experience and thousands of pieces created, Marjan decided to establish her own brand, Lemarsis Design Inc., in 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is dedicated to promoting the beauty and diversity of traditional arts while also pushing the boundaries with new techniques and styles. Through her work, Marjan hopes to inspire others to appreciate the beauty of traditional art forms and to never stop exploring their own creativity.

Lesley Hampton is an Anishinaabe artist and fashion designer focused on mental wellness and body neutrality in fashion through the lens of the Indigenous worldview. Lesley is a member of Temagami First Nation, and she identifies as an adult 'Third Culture Kid' with her formative years spent in Canada's Arctic and Atlantic, Australia, England, Indonesia, and New Caledonia. This amalgamation of her Anishinaabe Indigeneity and her international upbringing nurtured a passion for socio-cultural causes as she uses her work as a catalyst for research, conversation, and community building. Named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Local: Toronto list and the number one Canadian brand to keep your eye on by VOGUE, Lesley has styled campaigns for the Toronto Raptors, modelled for Nike, created custom designs for The Toronto Maple Leafs, and has been a Guest judge on Canada’s Drag Race.

Lindsay Gravelle is a Toronto based artist and arts educator.  Practicing pottery since 2015, she studied Studio Art at The University of Western Ontario, Ceramics at Sheridan College, and has a MEd in Adult Education and Community Development from OISE. Presently, she teaches with the Toronto Potters Studio, and is the Studio Facilitator at YWCA Toronto’s Inspirations Studio where she runs a member-based ceramics program for women and gender-diverse people who have experienced marginalization.

Lisa’s primary drive as a visual artist has been that of storytelling from a personal connection to the subject. Lisa studied Studio Art/Art History at Concordia University, and painting at Parsons School of Design in New York. In Spring 2017, Lisa was selected to exhibit in Craft Ontario ’17, the Biannual Juried Members Exhibition and was also awarded a Recommendation Prize in the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennial in South Korea with her piece "Reflection Through Time and Ice – HMS Terror."

LUprints is founded by principal designer Ulla Clark.  Trained in industrial screen printing by both fine art printers as well as textile printers.  Both in Canada and the United States. Ulla has been printing full-time since 2005 in her screen printing studio, where she began her printing career with a t-shirt printing business.  This led her to launch a line of home textiles in 2006. Ulla's inspiration comes from her childhood.  Growing up with a Swedish mother she frequented family visits to Sweden and grew a fondness for table runners and textiles.  Drawn to the pleasing simplicity that nature provides us.  Trees, birds, flowers and mountains have become a consistent theme in her work.  Her strong connections to nature, as well as her memories of the beautiful yet functional linens, are a constant inspiration for new products and prints.

Born in 1950, Magdalene Odundo received her initial training as a graphic artist in her native Kenya. In 1971, she moved to the United Kingdom and enrolled in the foundation course at the Cambridge School of Art. In 1976, Odundo graduated in Ceramics, Photography and Printmaking from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. She completed her Post Graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in 1982. In 2019, Odundo was appointed Chancellor of the University for Creative Arts (UCA) and was made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2020. Odundo’s work is in the collections of many museums internationally including The British Museum, London; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Gardiner Museum, Toronto; Stedelijk Museum Voor Hedendaagst Kunst, Hertogenbosh, Netherlands; Frankfurt Museum for Applied Arts, Frankfurt; and Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum, Munich.

Established in 2011, Maison 203 is the collaboration of Orlando Fernandez Flores and Lucia De Conti. Made in Italy, their 3D printed jewellery is inspired by geometry, nature, architecture, and contemporary design, and is meant to interact harmoniously with the body.

Makiko Hicher is a Japanese ceramic artist who trained in Japan. Her ceramics are simple and elegant, highlighting the shape, harmony and nature. The decorations on the ceramics inspired by the landscapes she sees. Her research focuses on the contact of ceramics, the pleasure of feeling the object. Hicher is inspired by the idea of an artwork, perhaps after a shipwreck, that sunk to the bottom of the seas. It would have waited for centuries, alone, gradually covered by algae and shellfish. Thus taking on the colours of the waters surrounding it. It is a work of both sadness and poetry. The poetry and sadness of lost objects forsaken by all, on which time, slowly, leaves its marks. The work also hovers around the idea of the deep seas, marine depths, underwater chasm, which have always frightened the artist, but are tinged with romanticism. All works by Makiko Hicher are produced in stoneware, food and microwave safe. The work is fired in an electric kiln, on which she used a glazing technique, applying natural sponges, the way one would paint a painting.

Maria Moldovan was born and raised in Romania. She holds a BFA in ceramics from the University of Visual Arts and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania. For Maria, ceramic art is the perfect medium to explore colors and sculptural forms at the same time. After graduating from University, she worked as an art teacher and as a children's book illustrator for many years. Throughout this time, she has continued to create ceramic art for personal and group exhibitions. Maria moved with her family in Canada in 2013 and currently she is a full time studio artist living in Arnprior, Ontario. She is also teaching ceramics at the Ottawa School of Art.

Mariana Bolaños Inclán is a Mexican ceramist based in Toronto. She graduated from the Ceramics program at Sheridan College and has exhibited in Canada, Mexico, and the US. Her focus is on art with a social purpose.

Marie Levine worked in theatre, radio and television in New York, Toronto and Ottawa. Whether she was producing, directing or promoting other people’s ideas, she used these outlets to release her inner creativity. Marie's move back to Ottawa saw her as the National spokesperson for the Canadian Toy Testing Company. As her children took up the next chapter of her life, Marie found part time work managing a local Judaic Gift Shop. Reviewing the inventory she was struck that most items were manufactured in distant lands, and the designs of these mass-produced items were tired looking. She envisioned the gift shop featuring beautiful and handcrafted inventory. To achieve this goal, Marie started purchasing artisan created Judaica. After a year of working with a local fused glass artist who made menorahs for Marie's gift shop, the artist informed her that she wanted to move on and said, “You can make the menorahs!” So on that dark snowy February day Marie's fused glass menorah making adventure began.

Mariel Waddell Hunter grew up in Trinidad and the Caribbean Islands.  With this upbringing, she was inspired and influenced by the nature surrounding her.  In turn, this became her main foundation in her artistic vision in her practice in glass. Mariel is a graduate of the Crafts and Design Program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.  Following her education training, Mariel was offered a partnership at the Kingston Glass Studio and Gallery.  She works alongside her husband Mischka Alexi Hunter where both work on individual and collaborative works of art.    

Originally from Conestogo, Ontario, Marla Benton attended the Ontario College of Art & Design where she found her passion for clay. She completed her degree with a major in Ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. She works from her home studio in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

Mary Louise communicates through the languages of art, including music, drama, literature, dance, and the visual arts. She concentrates primarily on cast glass. Her designs are focused on composition, rhythm, movement, form, line, harmony, colour, balance, and the silence or stillness of the stories she tries to convey. Having studied glass at Corning Studio, USA, Northlands Creative, Scotland, Evelyn Dunstan Glass Studio, New Zealand, Karl Harron Glass Studio, and Ireland. She earned a Masters Certificate in Glass from the Australian National University School of Art and Design in 2017 and continues to practice in St. Thomas, Ontario.

Toronto-based artist Mary McKenzie graduated from the Ceramics Program at Sheridan College, where she received the Gardiner Museum Award. She has participated in numerous exhibitions including Boxed In at The Rooms, Newfoundland; Hot Mud: Emerging Canadian Ceramic Artists at the Burlington Art Centre; and War: Light Within / After Darkness at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo. Mary McKenzie's functional pieces are food and dishwasher safe, unless otherwise stated in the case of some of her decorative bowls. McKenzie's drawings are vessel specific, making each unique, especially in her Landscape and Maple Leaf Series. She likes to change it up using a variety of cone six white to red clays, depending on the piece. She may use one or more throwing or hand-building techniques or a combination of these. For example, when throwing a simple cylinder for her tea bowls, she squeezes and pinches to emulate the undulating aspect of landscape.

Mary Philpott studied Ceramics and Design at the School of Craft and Design at Sheridan College. She also has a BFA in Art History and Archeology at the University of Guelph. Further studies have included Anthropology and Archeology at McMaster University, and Ceramics Intensives at Alfred University, New York. She explores the dreams of lands further afield where beasts live out their stories. The Spirit of the polar bear and wild boar. As well as domestic animals such as wolfhounds of mythic heritage and sheep.  The animals are inspired by Victorian and nineteenth century children's book illustrations and painting.  It is the narrative of the creatures who are not so different from us, who live out the stories that affect and inform our lives.

Athena Sarracini is a ceramic artist of Greek heritage. Her work references the palette, shapes and motifs she grew up with; the blues of the Aegean Sea and the stark minimalism of Cycladic architecture. Evil eyes, spirals, and the wave motif appear frequently in her ceramics. Exaggerated proportions, asymmetrical handles, and whimsical surface decoration all bring a sense of play to her work. Each piece is made by hand in her attic studio in downtown Toronto, and no two are the same.

Self-taught, Michael displays a natural talent for woodturning. His instinct for recognizing and exposing the innate beauty of wood is clearly evident in every piece.  A salad bowl, smooth and enduring, a vase intricately carved from natural woods. Every piece celebrates the exquisite beauty of nature. Working mainly with the native woods of Ontario, Michael sells through fine Art shows and selected galleries.

Toronto-born designer Michelle Ross fuses original design with a nostalgic sensibility to create her collection of contemporary jewellery. Adorning a faithful following since 2003, Ross uses semi-precious stones and metals juxtaposed with glass, ceramics, and vintage findings to produce each unique piece. Michelle’s study of textiles at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University honed her innate eye for detail and keen sense of style. In 2007, Michelle moved to London, England where her studies at the prestigious London College of Fashion brought her to intern for luxury fashion label, Erdem. Bringing her diverse background and experience into her own work, Michelle launched her debut womenswear collection in London, effortlessly blurring the line between clothing and jewellery. Michelle returned to Toronto in 2010 to pursue her love of crafting handmade jewellery that reflects her truly distinct perspective. Michelle Ross Jewellery is the fine balance of elegance and unpredictability.

Introducing an exclusive collaboration between the Gardiner Shop and Mima Ceramics. In addition to a collection of her signature mugs and bowls, available now, potter Michelle Organ has created a limited series of 10 vessels, each one of a kind and available online starting June 1 at 10 am. Mima Ceramics is line of hand-crafted tableware made by Michelle Organ in Toronto. Each piece is thrown on the wheel, trimmed, sanded and fired in an electric kiln. Michelle's goal is to have each piece live on seamlessly from her studio into the domestic life of its new owner, to be used and loved daily. Her work is both functional and playful, showcasing the beauty in simplistic design and plays with different clays, textures and colors.

Minda has worked with clay for many years, having first started one evening a week with Isolde Rest on Markham Street in Toronto’s Mirvish Village as respite from the corporate world. She is now a member of Hill Potters’ Guild a guild of close to 30 members located in Richmond Hill and has enjoyed creating her work and learning more there. She has also benefited from various workshops and conferences given by wonderful local and foreign artists. Although she has done both hand building and wheel work, she now works primarily on the wheel and enjoys the feel of the clay as it moves into simple, graceful shapes that are both pleasing to hold and see and are useful. Minda believes that functional ware should be both beautiful and practical. She is inspired by the spirituality of being one with clay as it moves from potential to actuality.

Nadira Narine was raised in Panama City and moved to Toronto to pursue her post-secondary education. She discovered glass blowing along the way and has since become an award-winning artist. Nadira uses her making process as a means of self-discovery and connection to home.

Natalie Czerwinski is a self-taught artist whose illustrations capture the city’s landmarks, storefronts, and other special quirks in ink, watercolour and coloured pencil. She has lived in Toronto for over a decade and began illustrating its streetscapes as a visual love letter back in 2015.

Natalie Waddell is a Toronto-based ceramic artist. She graduated from the Ceramic Craft and Design program at Sheridan College  in 2003 and has continued her studies by attending workshops lead by local and international artists and educators. Since establishing her studio practice, Waddell has continuously explored and developed new bodies of functional and sculptural work. She was a judge on Season 1 of CBC's The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down.

Patricia Lazar knew from the time she was a small child that she wanted to be an artist.  She studied at the School of Art & Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art under Dr. Arthur Lismer, followed by a four year stint at the Artist Colony in Safed, Israel.  Patricia studies in various mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramic art.  Her art works consist of playful imagery with abstract form. She shows in juried art shows in Toronto and Montreal. Including the One of a Kind Show, Le Salon des Metiers d’Art, Fusion Art Show, Cabbagetown Art Show, and so forth.  As well, she is represented by the Wilde Meyer Art Gallery in Arizona.

Toronto-based artist Peidi Wang graduated from OCAD University in 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design. Her work embodies vivid and surreal dreamscapes, woven together with intricate details and strange beauty. Porcelain serves as a bridge between the irrational and the real, with each piece possessing a unique blend of cute and weird.

A practicing architect in Montreal, Debra Brown was asked to make note cards for a wedding. Printed with her delicate line drawings, they were well received, so she later decided to pursue her own product line of ware including tea towels and greeting cards. Handmade, Petits Mots drawings evoke special memories and remind us of the small details that surround us in our lives.

Queenie (Kun Xu) is a ceramist and maker based in Toronto. Raised in China, Queenie received her BFA from the Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute of Industrial Design in 2012. In 2014, she moved to Canada where she graduated from the Craft and Design program at Sheridan College. Queenie creates functional objects that can be arranged to form sculptural installations.

Rachael Kroeker is a ceramic artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she continues to live and work. She was introduced to ceramics while completing her BFA at the University of Manitoba. Since graduating in 2009, Kroeker has been active in the Winnipeg arts community, participating in numerous shows and sales, as well as a long-running pottery collective.

Roses Without Thorns is a Toronto based craft business that is specialized in Paper Crafts. The Owner/Artist, Link Tong, graduated from Algonquin College (Ottawa) as a Floral Designer in 2008 and has been working as a freelance artist since then. With the help of his family & friends, Link started Roses Without Thorns – a professional craft business, which was always his teenage dream - in 2014.

Sami Tsang is a Toronto-based ceramic artist whose work explores domestic encounters and private narratives borne out of two cultures— Chinese and Western. She studied traditional Chinese painting for 7 years in Hong Kong, before earning her BA in Craft & Design from Sheridan College (2019) and her MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University, NY (2021). Sami's work has been presented at Sculpture Space, NYC; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery; Gardiner Museum; and Cooper Cole Gallery, among others.

Scott Barnim graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Ceramics from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales. In 1978, he established Barnim Pottery. His current work includes lustreware and porcelain, as well as his studio line of decorated stoneware. Scott lives and works in Dundas, Ontario. He has been part-time faculty at Sheridan College and has led workshops and lectures across Canada.

Sean predominantly explores the making of vessels. Driven by the process of sitting down at the wheel to form a piece of clay into an object that consumes and contains space. Vessels that ambiguously contain objects and materials for display, storage and consumption. Many of the bowls Sean makes are based on traditional forms with an emphasis on the images contained within and the without the bowl. The decoration in and under the bowl are often equally important.  

Shay is a Toronto based artist working with glass. She attended Sheridan College to explore her desire to face new challenges by choosing to work with a medium she had no experience with, glass. After a couple years of exploring the different qualities and processes of the material she began to find comfort in particular methods, such as kiln casting and the pate de verre technique.

Danielle Skentzos lives in the fields of Oro-Medonte, Ontario. Her first career was in education, earning degrees from the University of Western Ontario and Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. It was when she returned to Canada that she first experienced the feeling of clay smoothly turning through her hands on a pottery wheel. It unearthed a feeling of home—of early years spent watching animals and acres grow, and a youth of tending local gardens with friends. Danielle learned about ceramics from a variety of generous artists and time spent at the Haliburton School of Art. She founded Shiralee Pottery to share her work, inspired by the beauty found near her home.  

Shu-Chen is a full time ceramic artist, originally from Taiwan. She lives and works from her home and studio in Hamilton, Ontario. Her award winning Raku vessels has been exhibited in galleries and juried shows, including the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Her work has been collected by collectors in Canada and abroad. Her timeless ceramic work is also in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington Potter's Guild and Waterloo Potters' Workshop. In 2008, her Raku work was purchased by Hamilton Airport and is on display at the International Arrival Hall.

In 2004 Kris Gene and Eva Milinkovic founded the glass firm Tsunami Glassworks with the goal to deliver the best for interior designers and architects in glass sculpture and décor. Incorporating glass metal and design fabrication Soffi was born. The company is located in Windsor, Ontario and work with a team of designers and fabricators to create for commercial, hospitality, and residential projects.

Station Pôle Nord, founded by glass artist Sarrah Gagnon-Palin, specializes in whimsical glass ornaments handcrafted in Quebec.

Stephen Hawes took his first class in clay at the Waterloo Potters’ Workshop. He was hooked. Subsequently he took courses at Sheridan College, Sir Sanford Fleming College and has attended many classes and workshops. Since 1987, he has been making wheel-thrown and hand-built functional pottery. He uses a porcelaneous stoneware. Marks are made in the clay and then decorated with slips, underglazes and glaze. Through the use of colour and design, the pots Stephen makes are visually appealing. Influences from his earlier career as a microbiologist are evident. He is also influenced by abstract paintings and “road construction paintings” found on urban streets. Stephen lives in Waterloo, Ontario. He is a member of the Waterloo Potters’ Workshop, A Mess of Potters, Fusion and Craft Ontario.

Berna Kilic is a glass artist specializing in jewellery and figurines. She learned the process of making glass beads from various artists, workshops, and years of self-practice. She creates her beads in her studio in Georgetown, Ontario using the technique of lampworking.

Mohammad Tabesh is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and the founder of Studio Saboo. He established Studio Saboo in 2019 during the pandemic's peak, blending art and design through innovative practices. His studio takes pride in integrating modern technologies like 3D printing with traditional mould-making techniques, creating a unique fusion in contemporary ceramic art.

Karen Pasieka is a self-taught polymer clay artist with an academic and professional background in architecture.  While her combined interests in art, craft, and math lead her to pursue and obtain her B.Arch from the University of Toronto, working for several years in her field of study left her desiring more creative control and fulfillment, prompting her return to clay with the launch of her business Subtle Details in 2007.

Susan Low-Beer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Mount Allison University and her Masters of Fine Arts in the United States at the Cranbrook Academy of Art with a major in painting. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, Japan and Korea, as well as nationally in both juried and invitational exhibitions and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Susan Low-Beer is represented among others, in the collections of the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Modern Art in Japan, and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina. In 1999 she received the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts and in 2000 was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2017 a retrospective called Embodiment; 30 Years of Sculpture by Susan Low-Beer  was shown in three venues, the Art Gallery of Algoma, in Sault Ste Marie, the Norfolk Art Centre, in the town of Simcoe, and the Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario.

Dr. Suzanne Morrissette (she/her) is an artist, curator, and scholar based in Toronto. She was born and raised in Winnipeg and is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Suzanne's interests include family and community knowledge and practices of making that support and sustain life. She creates functional ceramic ware available at the Gardiner Shop and Craft Ontario.

Sydni Weatherson is an emerging artist from Oakville, Ontario. Growing up, her focus was on watercolour painting and fine art, but an open house at Sheridan College pushed Sydni to pursue glass instead, where she graduated from in 2022. In May of 2022 she was accepted into Harbourfront Centre as a full time Artist in Residence. Outside of the studio she maintains her fine art practice, as well as being a hobbyist film photographer.

Jill Cribbin of Tank Jewelry and Beads launched herself into the world of glass flame working over ten years ago at an intensive workshop at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, NY. Since then she has studied with numerous recognized bead makers and jewellery designers. Currently working from her studio in Stratford, Ontario, Jill finds inspiration from urban shapes and forms, with a nod to the timeless work of Venetian glass artists.

Nadia Tasci is an established Canadian glass artist.  She has a full-time studio practice with glass flame-working and silver jewellery fabrication. Over the course of her career, she has used the medium of glass to express various artistic narratives. She uses unique methods of design to explore the visual dialogue between colour, form and pattern.  As a result, she creates dynamic and engaging contemporary jewellery and sculpture. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design University’s Drawing.  As well the Painting program and Sheridan College’s Craft and Design (Glass) program. She has participated in several creative development workshops over the years in the USA, Mexico and Central America. Nadia Tasci has been published internationally and she has received recognition in the form of grants and awards for her detailed and high quality craftsmanship. Over the last 15 years she has been invited to exhibit her work across Canada, USA, UK and Japan, most notably the Corning Museum of Glass. Presently, she works full-time at her studio in Toronto, Canada.

For thirty-two years, Teresa was an elementary school teacher. Watching her students' creative exploration of material made her want to be a maker as well as a facilitator. Seizing this dream, Teresa returned to school to study Ceramics in the Craft and Design program at Sheridan College. After graduation, she completed a 3-year residency at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. In 2017, Teresa opened her own studio in Newmarket where she teaches  and continues to explore new ideas in clay.

Thomas Aitken’s BFA is from Nova Scotia College Art and Design (NSCAD) and his MFA is from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. In addition to maintaining his studio, he has curated exhibitions, designed and constructed both low-fire and high-fire kilns and, since 1998, taught in the education department of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. The practicality of his Maritime roots is evident in the simplicity of his forms, while his daring use of color has been influenced by his long sojourn in the Canadian West. Thomas’s work has been exhibited across North America, in the United Kingdom and in Continental Europe.  

Renato Foti studied both Engineering and Fine Arts, beginning his career as a painter.  After an introduction to glass, he began casting glass pieces and started a Glass company called Trio Design Glassware.  Combining both technical expertise and craftsmanship into making art, Renato's glassware focuses on structure, balance, colour, and simplicity.  His contemporary designs with use of bold colours creates a balance which is of critical importance and is a reflection of his personal philosophy in life and in his art.  

Victoria Guy is the glassblower behind Lady Glass who has a passion for sculpting; she enjoys making vibrantly hued, tactile work that is inviting to touch. She is a graduate from the Sheridan College's Bachelors of Craft and Design specializing in glass making, and a resident artist at Toronto Harbourfront Center.

Wendy Lisa Nichol is a Toronto-based ceramic artist. She received a BFA in Drawing & Painting with a minor in Material Arts & Design from OCAD University in 2014. With more than 10 years experience in ceramics, the work she creates is hand-built by coiling and slab building. Nichol alternates her practice to find the balance between sculptural art objects and unique functional homewares.

William Lee moved to Scarborough Ontario from Hong Kong at 7 years old with his family. He’s always had an interest in crafts and began learning wheel throwing in May of 2013. William wishes to create dinnerware that pushes the boundaries of traditional designs by creating work with a variety of glazes and forms.

Born in Japan, Yumiko Katsuya became a Canadian resident in 1971.  She started pottery in 1983 when she joined the Hill Potters Guild in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Many of her works continue to be on display in their permanent collection.  She is also a past member of the Toronto Potters from 2005 to 2015, and moved to Ottawa joining the Ottawa Guild of Potters in 2016. Yumiko has several awards including the Juror’s Choice Awards at the Hill Potters Guild Show in Richmond Hill, People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Potters Show and the Karen Latorre Award at the Toronto Potters Biennial Exhibition at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto. Recently Yumiko announced her retirement after 41 years in clay.  We thank her efforts and dedication to the ceramic community.  View her last collection online.

Zara Gardner is a Barbados-born ceramic artist currently living and working in Toronto. She received her BA (Honours) in Fine Art from the University of Guelph in 2010, followed by a Certificate in Ceramics from the Haliburton School of Art and Design, Fleming College in 2017. She creates objects in clay that range from functional to sculptural, sparking concern, curiosity, and appreciation for the natural world.

Zsuzsa Monostory was born and raised in Hungary.  She received her diploma in biology at ELTE University in Budapest.  She moved to Canada with her family in 1989 and worked at Mount Sinai Hospital Research Institute.  However, her passion for ceramics took over and in 1997 became a full time ceramicist. Zsuzsa is self taught and draws inspiration from architecture, nature and all living things. Her background in biology expresses her environmental issues and concerns.  Through the medium of clay, Zsuzsa captures the human form, gesture, nature, and behaviour.  She meticulously hand builds each vessel or sculpture and raku fires creating different surface effects.