About this Event
Join a small, welcoming circle of makers and experience the quiet rhythm of the pottery wheel.
This 4-week throwing course is designed for beginners and returning students who want to build confidence, develop foundational skills, and enjoy the process of making together.
Each week, we’ll focus on essential wheel techniques while allowing space for exploration, practice, and personal projects.
The class moves at a supportive pace, with plenty of individual guidance and time at the wheel.
Over the four weeks, you’ll learn how to:
• Prepare and wedge clay
• Handbuild
• Centre clay on the wheel
• Throw cylinders, bowls, and cups
• Shape and refine your forms
• Trim and finish your pieces
• Explore simple surface decoration
• Glaze your work
All materials are included — clay, glaze, and kiln firings. Most students create 8–15 functional pieces to take home.
With a small class size of 6–7 people, the atmosphere is relaxed, intimate, and community-focused — a space to slow down, work with your hands, and connect with others through the shared experience of clay.
Whether you’re brand new or returning to the wheel, this class is about building skill, finding flow, and becoming part of a growing studio community.
Dates: Wednesday afternoons, April 8 to 29, 2026
Location: Kate Metten Ceramics, 416 East Broadway, Vancouver
Find out more at www.katemetten.com
About Kate
Kate Metten works at the intersection of painting and ceramics, blurring material hierarchies with formal abstraction. Her practice moves fluidly between the studio and the exhibition space, balancing a body of contemporary artwork with a line of hand-thrown tableware that redefines the rituals of everyday use.
Rooted in West Coast Modernism and informed by years of material research, Metten’s ceramics are both functional and sculptural — vessels that embody precision, rhythm, and touch. Each piece reflects her commitment to the handmade as a form of quiet resistance to mass production and disposability.
Kate's distinctive creations have been featured in shops at Vancouver Art Gallery, Polygon Gallery, and the Museum of Vancouver, at Wil Aballe Art Projects and Kasko Gallery, as well as internationally through Simons Fabrique 1840, NCECA, and British Vogue.
Recipient of the 2023 Judson Beaumont BC Achievement Award in Applied Art and Design, Metten continues to explore the threshold between utility and art — where a mug becomes a conversation, and a vessel becomes a field of light, colour, and meaning.
Studio Ceramics
Kate's studio operates on a zero-waste model, cultivating recycled clay and using locally sourced raw materials. Adapting historical ceramic traditions to an urban context, Kate harvests clay from Vancouver’s construction sites, transforming industrial by-products into vessels of renewal. Acknowledging the site specificity of the material and inspired by the natural world, her wheel-thrown forms are defined by a personal language of colour and glaze. Through years of material research, she has developed a palette of rare-earth neodymium glazes that explore light, perception, and optical depth — a dialogue between science and craft.
Function lies at the heart of Kate Metten’s ceramics — a quiet critique of modern disposable culture. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted to endure, inviting touch, use, and the intimacy of daily ritual.
Each piece reflects a deep study of clay’s tactile intelligence and its conversation with contemporary abstraction. Working intuitively, Kate allows her process to reveal the balance between hand and mind in motion — objects emerging as both evidence and expression of human presence.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kate Metten Ceramics, 416 East Broadway, Vancouver, Canada
CAD 367.50
