March Monthly Meeting

Tuesday March 24th 2026, 7:00-8:30pm
TORONTO POTTERS MONTHLY MEETING

Artist talk & demo
with Alison Brannen 

Toronto Potters Studio,
180 Shaw Street, Studio 107

Please BYOM (bring-your-own- mug) to use for refreshments.
We serve tea and snacks in the cozy Toronto Potters Studio.

 
Alison will talk about her work and artistic influences, followed by a demonstration of her techniques for slip-casting her small vases and applying terra sigillata.

Alison Brannen, Toronto artist, educator, and sailor, has been creating art for 35 years. Her educational background includes: M.F.A. - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; B.F.A. - York University, Toronto.

o; B.Ed. - the University of Toronto. She recently retired after teaching for many years from her position as ceramics department head at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts in Toronto. In her artist practice, she offers workshops on saggar-fired ceramics in electric kilns and Kintsugi-inspired gold repair to various guilds and online audiences worldwide.

Her work has been recognized by awards: Best in Show Award: Toronto Potters 23rd Biennial at Craft Ontario 401 Gallery in 2025; Ann Sneath Best in Show Award: Hamilton Potters Guild Biennial at the Carnegie Gallery in 2016. Her large-scale sculptural vessels were showcased at the Gardiner Museum in 2020. Represented by Gagne Contemporary Gallery in Toronto and New York, she has exhibited in several group shows in Ontario: Art Gallery of Burlington, Carnegie Gallery, Todmorden Gallery, Oeno Gallery, Rails End Gallery and others. 

August 6-16, she will be exhibiting her work in Parallell Play, along with Jenny Mendes and Annie McDonald at Gagne Contemporary Leslieville, in Toronto.

Currently Alison volunteers as Vice President of FUSION: the Ontario Clay and Glass Association. On Sunday, May 24, she will moderate a panel discussion with John Gagne of Gagne Contemporary Gallery and Jennifer Kerbel, owner of Vessels and Sticks, at the Art Gallery of Burlington as part of the Fusion Conference 2026.

Monthly Meetings will be held at  Toronto Potters Studio, 180 Shaw St. Studio #107, unless otherwise indicated

Toronto Potters invite all members to meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month between 7:00-8:30pm, to connect with colleagues and new members, to network and to find out what’s coming up in the community of ceramics.

Please BYOM (bring-your-own- mug) to use for refreshments.

No meetings take place in December, June, July or Aug.

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