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Learn fundamental skills and explore exciting new directions in contemporary art and craft through artist-led classes and workshops for all ages.

 

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July 8, 2026

Fun and Functional Pottery

07/08/2026 - 08/26/2026
Explore the many ways to create functional pieces for home and entertaining using hand building and the wheel.

July 10, 2026

Build-A-Bowl

07/10/2026 - 08/07/2026
Join us for a night of learning how to use the pottery wheel – absolutely no experience is required for this fun, hands-on night working with clay. 

July 11, 2026

Colour for Textile Arts

07/11/2026
Artist and textile designer Amanda Rataj will share some of her favourite ways to play with colour. We’ll begin by exploring your personal colour preferences through some simple creative exercises that demonstrate design principles like colour harmony, value, and saturation.

Arriving at Words: A Gentle Unraveling

07/11/2026
Held within Celina Eceiza’s immersive exhibition, this poetry workshop invites participants to explore tenderness as an embodied, relational practice. 

July 12, 2026

Radical Darkroom: Pinhole Cameras

07/12/2026
In this full-day workshop, you will make your own pop-can pinhole camera to play with analogue photography in a quirky, fun way.

July 18, 2026

Handmade Sounds with Soledad Munoz

07/18/2026
Join artist Soledad Muñoz for an in-person workshop and artist-led discussion that explores the intersection of woven textile, sound, and instrumental play.

Printing with Plants: Phytography for Beginners

07/18/2026
In this workshop, we’ll be using plants from the AGB’s community garden to create phytograms on 35mm film. We’ll learn about the possibilities of sustainable image making and using the garden as a darkroom resource. 

July 25, 2026

Playing with (Im)Permanence: A Clay Writing Workshop

07/25/2026
In a world that is transfixed with binaries and absolutes, we invite you to explore the in-between and play with (im)permanence by blending writing and clay together.

August 6, 2026

Embroidery Basics

08/06/2026
Participants will learn the fundamentals of hand embroidery through a guided stitch sampler project.

August 8, 2026

Light, Speed, Landscapes

08/08/2026
This workshop considers the sustainability of the materials and methods we typically use to produce analog photography.