Fall in Love with Ceramics...Classes beginning this September

Join Mariko McCrae at the brand, spanking new Feedlot Studios for a Beginner’s foray into the world of ceramics. Handbuilding techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab making and modeling will be introduced in conjunction with a variety of projects. Fun, versatile and colorful glazes will be used to finish things up with. Come learn why ceramics has stood the test of time to be one of the best art forms around…you know you’ve always wanted want to!

Clay material and firing costs are included in the course fee of $125.

Adult Classes (9 Weeks)

Wednesday Evenings

Start Date: September 15 - November 10

Time: 7-9 PM

Fee: $125 + HST

Kids Classes  7 + (9 Weeks)

Friday Afternoon

Start Date: September 17 – November 12

Time: 3-5 PM (Pick up kids by 5:30)

Fee: $125 + HST

Please contact Mariko at by email or 250.325.3281 (I will be away for the September long weekend so please leave a message!)


(PS A little more about me!)


Mariko McCrae is a Vancouver born artist whose career has taken her to the likes of the Banff Centre in Alberta, the International Ceramics Research Center in Denmark, Greenwich House Pottery in New York and both Kent State and Ohio University in Ohio. Her return to Calgary resulted in a teaching position at the Alberta College of Art & Design, but just recently she has moved to Gabriola Island to resume a full time practice at Feedlot Studios. 

Mariko’s handbuilt works pay homage to the world of historical ceramics. She both covets and hoards Christie’s and Sotheby auction catalogs that constitute her prime source of inspiration. With carefully selected historical pieces to serve as visual anchors she then merges them with contemporary subject matters in order to achieve a body of work that demonstrates a strange hybridization of culture, a warped sense of time travel and, as always, challenges notions of taste.