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Calling all established clay & glass artists ✨

FUSION is now accepting submissions from established artists in clay and glass for our Fall 2026 issue!

Each issue of FUSION Magazine features one artist working in clay and one in glass, offering a platform to share the depth, perspective, and craft shaped by years of dedicated practice.

Could it be you? Learn more about how we define an Established Artist and submit today — link in bio 🔗

On the cover: Fall 2026 Clay Artist Spotlight Asmae Laraqui @asmae_laraqui

Calling all established clay & glass artists ✨

FUSION is now accepting submissions from established artists in clay and glass for our Fall 2026 issue!

Each issue of FUSION Magazine features one artist working in clay and one in glass, offering a platform to share the depth, perspective, and craft shaped by years of dedicated practice.

Could it be you? Learn more about how we define an Established Artist and submit today — link in bio 🔗

On the cover: Fall 2026 Clay Artist Spotlight Asmae Laraqui @asmae_laraqui

Mark your calendars! 📅

Our Annual General Meeting is coming up on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 PM, and we’d love to have you there.
This is your chance to hear what’s been happening across FUSION, connect with fellow members, and have a say in where we’re headed next. All FUSION members are eligible to vote: your voice matters here! 🗳️

This is a virtual event. RSVP details to come!

@bdupottersguild
@brantfordpottersguild
@burlingtonpottersguild
@claystudiocollective
@clayworx
@craftontario
@deepriverpottersguild
@durhampottersguild
@feldsparceramics
@fleminghsad
@hamiltonpotters
@hillpotters
@kawarthapottersguild
@kingstonpottersguild
@mississaugapotters
@northbaypottersguild
@ottawapotters
@pinetreepottersguild
@parkdalepottery
@sheridancollegeceramics
@sudburybasinpotters
@squigglethestudio
@torontopotters
@waterloopotters
@williamsmillart
@woodlawn_pottery

Mark your calendars! 📅

Our Annual General Meeting is coming up on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 PM, and we’d love to have you there.
This is your chance to hear what’s been happening across FUSION, connect with fellow members, and have a say in where we’re headed next. All FUSION members are eligible to vote: your voice matters here! 🗳️

This is a virtual event. RSVP details to come!

@bdupottersguild
@brantfordpottersguild
@burlingtonpottersguild
@claystudiocollective
@clayworx
@craftontario
@deepriverpottersguild
@durhampottersguild
@feldsparceramics
@fleminghsad
@hamiltonpotters
@hillpotters
@kawarthapottersguild
@kingstonpottersguild
@mississaugapotters
@northbaypottersguild
@ottawapotters
@pinetreepottersguild
@parkdalepottery
@sheridancollegeceramics
@sudburybasinpotters
@squigglethestudio
@torontopotters
@waterloopotters
@williamsmillart
@woodlawn_pottery

Our Summer 2026 issue has arrived ☀️✨

Inside this issue:
•Gathering: the inaugural Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists
•PRAXIS: Enacting Ideas — process and persistence: a mentorship with Peter Flannery
•Knowledge in the Gaps by Michael Wood @woodstoneware , a contemplation on the FUSION Conference experience
•Emerging Clay Artist Spotlights with Erin Merkley @erinmerkleyceramics and Thomas Paik @tomsceramicart
•Clay + glass graduate awards and profiles

A mix of conversation, community, and contemporary practice — this issue brings together voices and ideas shaping the field right now.

Read it now at the link in bio 🔗

On the cover: Ryan Nesbitt @ryanesbitt

Our Summer 2026 issue has arrived ☀️✨

Inside this issue:
•Gathering: the inaugural Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists
•PRAXIS: Enacting Ideas — process and persistence: a mentorship with Peter Flannery
•Knowledge in the Gaps by Michael Wood @woodstoneware , a contemplation on the FUSION Conference experience
•Emerging Clay Artist Spotlights with Erin Merkley @erinmerkleyceramics and Thomas Paik @tomsceramicart
•Clay + glass graduate awards and profiles

A mix of conversation, community, and contemporary practice — this issue brings together voices and ideas shaping the field right now.

Read it now at the link in bio 🔗

On the cover: Ryan Nesbitt @ryanesbitt

Artist Feature: Kelly Ford-Dulson @kellyford
Beyond Books

Over the course of the year, we’ll be spotlighting artists featured in CONNECT ONLINE, FUSION’s juried virtual exhibition showcasing contemporary clay and glass practices.

Kelly Ford-Dulson is part of CONNECT ONLINE, designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries and offer an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of work from artists across Ontario and beyond. This year’s exhibition is juried by Teresa Dunlop.

🗓 January 2026 – January 2027
🌐 View the full exhibition at clayandglass.on.ca or at the link in our bio

Artist Feature: Kelly Ford-Dulson @kellyford
Beyond Books

Over the course of the year, we’ll be spotlighting artists featured in CONNECT ONLINE, FUSION’s juried virtual exhibition showcasing contemporary clay and glass practices.

Kelly Ford-Dulson is part of CONNECT ONLINE, designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries and offer an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of work from artists across Ontario and beyond. This year’s exhibition is juried by Teresa Dunlop.

🗓 January 2026 – January 2027
🌐 View the full exhibition at clayandglass.on.ca or at the link in our bio

If you’re in Toronto this weekend and love clay + glass, TOAF @torontooutdoorart is a must!

We wandered the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair to find the clay and glass artists bringing the heat. Come along with us and see who caught our eye 👀

The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair is happening now through Sunday at Nathan Phillips Square

Artists in this reel:
MP Guillot @mp__guillot
Michelle Organ @mima_ceramics
Christopher He @heceramics
Michele Macdonald @michelemacdonaldstudio
Michelle Jamieson @mezartcreationz
Sydni Weatherson @sydni.w.art
Laura Keeler-Lavin @laurakeelerlavin
Zoë Pinnell @zopinnell
Daria Khosravi @dariakhosravi
Maria Maldovan @moldarya
Eiko Maeda @eikoceramics
Brindusa Festila @bb_porcelain_delights
Darlene Pratt @darleneprattstudios
Courtney Downman @courtneydownmanglass
Patricia Lima @purple_paper_potter
Jes Young @jesyoung_
Brad Turner @glassturner
Lauren Blakey @laurenblakeyceramics
Lindsay Adelman @lilacglass.ca
Emma Bickers @bicks.ceramics
V Vallières @v.vallieres
Toronto Potters @torontopotters
Karen Franzen @karen.franzen
Peidi Wang @thetinydaikon
Jade Usackas @colourworship

If you’re in Toronto this weekend and love clay + glass, TOAF @torontooutdoorart is a must!

We wandered the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair to find the clay and glass artists bringing the heat. Come along with us and see who caught our eye 👀

The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair is happening now through Sunday at Nathan Phillips Square

Artists in this reel:
MP Guillot @mp__guillot
Michelle Organ @mima_ceramics
Christopher He @heceramics
Michele Macdonald @michelemacdonaldstudio
Michelle Jamieson @mezartcreationz
Sydni Weatherson @sydni.w.art
Laura Keeler-Lavin @laurakeelerlavin
Zoë Pinnell @zopinnell
Daria Khosravi @dariakhosravi
Maria Maldovan @moldarya
Eiko Maeda @eikoceramics
Brindusa Festila @bb_porcelain_delights
Darlene Pratt @darleneprattstudios
Courtney Downman @courtneydownmanglass
Patricia Lima @purple_paper_potter
Jes Young @jesyoung_
Brad Turner @glassturner
Lauren Blakey @laurenblakeyceramics
Lindsay Adelman @lilacglass.ca
Emma Bickers @bicks.ceramics
V Vallières @v.vallieres
Toronto Potters @torontopotters
Karen Franzen @karen.franzen
Peidi Wang @thetinydaikon
Jade Usackas @colourworship

A workshop for people who love flowers almost as much as they love clay. 🌸

Flower Bricks with Joan Bruneau @bruneaujoan is a three-day, process-driven workshop exploring one of pottery’s most beautiful and functional forms. You’ll learn to throw, alter, and assemble flower bricks, working through cylindrical forms, oval and square bodies, lid systems, and foot rings; with plenty of time to experiment and refine along the way.
Joan Bruneau is an acclaimed Nova Scotia-based studio potter and educator whose slipware celebrates beauty in everyday life, informed by ceramic history, nature, and ornament. She is exactly the person you want leading this one.

Your registration also includes admission to Joan’s public artist talk on Friday evening: a wonderful way to kick off the weekend.

Intermediate to advanced wheel throwing experience required.

📅 November 6–8, 2026
🎤 Artist Talk: Friday, November 6, 7–8:30 PM
📍Parkdale Pottery Dupont @parkdalepottery
👉 Link in bio to learn more and register

@bdupottersguild
@brantfordpottersguild
@burlingtonpottersguild
@claystudiocollective
@clayworx
@craftontario
@deepriverpottersguild
@durhampottersguild
@feldsparceramics
@fleminghsad
@hamiltonpotters
@hillpotters
@kawarthapottersguild
@kingstonpottersguild
@mississaugapotters
@northbaypottersguild
@ottawapotters
@pinetreepottersguild
@parkdalepottery
@sheridancollegeceramics
@sudburybasinpotters
@squigglethestudio
@torontopotters
@waterloopotters
@williamsmillart
@woodlawn_pottery

A workshop for people who love flowers almost as much as they love clay. 🌸

Flower Bricks with Joan Bruneau @bruneaujoan is a three-day, process-driven workshop exploring one of pottery’s most beautiful and functional forms. You’ll learn to throw, alter, and assemble flower bricks, working through cylindrical forms, oval and square bodies, lid systems, and foot rings; with plenty of time to experiment and refine along the way.
Joan Bruneau is an acclaimed Nova Scotia-based studio potter and educator whose slipware celebrates beauty in everyday life, informed by ceramic history, nature, and ornament. She is exactly the person you want leading this one.

Your registration also includes admission to Joan’s public artist talk on Friday evening: a wonderful way to kick off the weekend.

Intermediate to advanced wheel throwing experience required.

📅 November 6–8, 2026
🎤 Artist Talk: Friday, November 6, 7–8:30 PM
📍Parkdale Pottery Dupont @parkdalepottery
👉 Link in bio to learn more and register

@bdupottersguild
@brantfordpottersguild
@burlingtonpottersguild
@claystudiocollective
@clayworx
@craftontario
@deepriverpottersguild
@durhampottersguild
@feldsparceramics
@fleminghsad
@hamiltonpotters
@hillpotters
@kawarthapottersguild
@kingstonpottersguild
@mississaugapotters
@northbaypottersguild
@ottawapotters
@pinetreepottersguild
@parkdalepottery
@sheridancollegeceramics
@sudburybasinpotters
@squigglethestudio
@torontopotters
@waterloopotters
@williamsmillart
@woodlawn_pottery

Parallel Play is a 1.5-day workshop in Toronto’s east end built around the joy of pure experimentation. Through terra sigillata, slips, engobes, symbolic imagery, narrative mark-making, and low-fire glazes, you’ll shake up your surface language and rediscover what makes making fun.

Jenny Mendes is a full-time studio artist and educator from Chesterland, Ohio, whose practice has been shaped by residencies across Europe and Asia — we are so excited to welcome her to Toronto! Annie McDonald has been running a low-fire ceramics practice in Brighton, Ontario since 2003, and as a former art teacher, FUSION mentorship alumni, and recipient of our Best in Clay award, she brings warmth, expertise, and a whole lot of heart.

As longtime friends and collaborators, Jenny and Annie bring something to the learning environment that goes beyond a typical workshop. It’s a genuine creative exchange, and you’re invited in.

📅 August 8–9
📍 MUD The Clay Studio, Toronto
👉 Registration open now. Link in bio

Parallel Play is a 1.5-day workshop in Toronto’s east end built around the joy of pure experimentation. Through terra sigillata, slips, engobes, symbolic imagery, narrative mark-making, and low-fire glazes, you’ll shake up your surface language and rediscover what makes making fun.

Jenny Mendes is a full-time studio artist and educator from Chesterland, Ohio, whose practice has been shaped by residencies across Europe and Asia — we are so excited to welcome her to Toronto! Annie McDonald has been running a low-fire ceramics practice in Brighton, Ontario since 2003, and as a former art teacher, FUSION mentorship alumni, and recipient of our Best in Clay award, she brings warmth, expertise, and a whole lot of heart.

As longtime friends and collaborators, Jenny and Annie bring something to the learning environment that goes beyond a typical workshop. It’s a genuine creative exchange, and you’re invited in.

📅 August 8–9
📍 MUD The Clay Studio, Toronto
👉 Registration open now. Link in bio

Artist Feature: Jamila Monahan @jamilamonahan
What is Left Behind

Over the course of the year, we’ll be spotlighting artists featured in CONNECT ONLINE, FUSION’s juried virtual exhibition showcasing contemporary clay and glass practices.

Jamila Monahan is part of CONNECT ONLINE, designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries and offer an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of work from artists across Ontario and beyond. This year’s exhibition is juried by Teresa Dunlop.

🗓 January 2026 – January 2027
🌐 View the full exhibition at clayandglass.on.ca or at the link in our bio

Artist Feature: Jamila Monahan @jamilamonahan
What is Left Behind

Over the course of the year, we’ll be spotlighting artists featured in CONNECT ONLINE, FUSION’s juried virtual exhibition showcasing contemporary clay and glass practices.

Jamila Monahan is part of CONNECT ONLINE, designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries and offer an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of work from artists across Ontario and beyond. This year’s exhibition is juried by Teresa Dunlop.

🗓 January 2026 – January 2027
🌐 View the full exhibition at clayandglass.on.ca or at the link in our bio

Here’s to a summer full of making, inspiration, and maybe a jump or two into a lake 🌞

FUSION will be operating on reduced hours over the summer, but we’ll be back at full speed before you know it. In the meantime, we hope your clay is cool, glass is shimmering, and your summer is everything you need it to be.

From all of us at FUSION: happy summer! 🏺✨

Image: Lake 2505 by Tamara Sutton Funk @mercurialzephyr featured in our CONNECT ONLINE exhibition, which can be viewed at the link in our bio.

Here’s to a summer full of making, inspiration, and maybe a jump or two into a lake 🌞

FUSION will be operating on reduced hours over the summer, but we’ll be back at full speed before you know it. In the meantime, we hope your clay is cool, glass is shimmering, and your summer is everything you need it to be.

From all of us at FUSION: happy summer! 🏺✨

Image: Lake 2505 by Tamara Sutton Funk @mercurialzephyr featured in our CONNECT ONLINE exhibition, which can be viewed at the link in our bio.

The price for this one goes up tomorrow 🔥

If you’ve been thinking about joining us in Prince Edward County for a week of wood and soda firing, now is the time. FUSION’s retreat with The Ye11ow Studio @theye11ow and kiln masters Dawn & Jay Middleton is an intimate, small-group experience centred around a traditional two-chamber noborigama kiln: from loading to stoking to unloading, you’ll work through every stage together.

Expect flame, ash, soda, heat; surfaces you simply can’t achieve in an electric kiln.

✨ Intimate, hands-on learning
✨ No prior wood-firing experience required
✨ A week of making in the heart of beautiful Prince Edward County

📅 September 8–13, 2026
📍 Picton, ON
🚨 Limited spots — link in bio to register before the price goes up

The price for this one goes up tomorrow 🔥

If you’ve been thinking about joining us in Prince Edward County for a week of wood and soda firing, now is the time. FUSION’s retreat with The Ye11ow Studio @theye11ow and kiln masters Dawn & Jay Middleton is an intimate, small-group experience centred around a traditional two-chamber noborigama kiln: from loading to stoking to unloading, you’ll work through every stage together.

Expect flame, ash, soda, heat; surfaces you simply can’t achieve in an electric kiln.

✨ Intimate, hands-on learning
✨ No prior wood-firing experience required
✨ A week of making in the heart of beautiful Prince Edward County

📅 September 8–13, 2026
📍 Picton, ON
🚨 Limited spots — link in bio to register before the price goes up

The early bird rate closes June 30th. Tomorrow is the last day to save $100 on a trip that is filling up fast!

Eight days making work on Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with an extraordinary group of makers, a concluding exhibition in Road Town, and a sunset-drenched beach outside your door.

This is FUSION’s 10-day ceramics retreat at The Pottery Garden: one of those rare studio spaces that feels like it was dreamed into existence.

Don’t wait on this one!

🌊10 days in the Caribbean
✨ Save $100: early bird rate ends June 30th
📅 February 2027
📍 Tortola, BVI
👉 Link in bio to register

The early bird rate closes June 30th. Tomorrow is the last day to save $100 on a trip that is filling up fast!

Eight days making work on Tortola, British Virgin Islands, with an extraordinary group of makers, a concluding exhibition in Road Town, and a sunset-drenched beach outside your door.

This is FUSION’s 10-day ceramics retreat at The Pottery Garden: one of those rare studio spaces that feels like it was dreamed into existence.

Don’t wait on this one!

🌊10 days in the Caribbean
✨ Save $100: early bird rate ends June 30th
📅 February 2027
📍 Tortola, BVI
👉 Link in bio to register

Artist Feature: Shaga Bikdeli @shaghadel
White Seed Vases

Over the course of the year, we’ll be spotlighting artists featured in CONNECT ONLINE, FUSION’s juried virtual exhibition showcasing contemporary clay and glass practices.

Shaga Bikdeli is part of CONNECT ONLINE, designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries and offer an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of work from artists across Ontario and beyond. This year’s exhibition is juried by Teresa Dunlop.

🗓 January 2026 – January 2027
🌐 View the full exhibition at clayandglass.on.ca or at the link in our bio

Artist Feature: Shaga Bikdeli @shaghadel
White Seed Vases

Over the course of the year, we’ll be spotlighting artists featured in CONNECT ONLINE, FUSION’s juried virtual exhibition showcasing contemporary clay and glass practices.

Shaga Bikdeli is part of CONNECT ONLINE, designed to connect artists and audiences beyond geographic boundaries and offer an accessible platform to experience the depth and diversity of work from artists across Ontario and beyond. This year’s exhibition is juried by Teresa Dunlop.

🗓 January 2026 – January 2027
🌐 View the full exhibition at clayandglass.on.ca or at the link in our bio

And that’s a wrap at the Art Gallery of Burlington! 🎉

A huge thank you to the AGB @artgallburl for their incredible support, to Hamilton for driving the Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists up to Haliburton, and to PSH @potterysupplyhouse for making it all possible as our transportation sponsor.

Next stop: Rails End Gallery @rails_end_gallery Haliburton — July 15 to September 5. See you there! 👀

And that’s a wrap at the Art Gallery of Burlington! 🎉

A huge thank you to the AGB @artgallburl for their incredible support, to Hamilton for driving the Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists up to Haliburton, and to PSH @potterysupplyhouse for making it all possible as our transportation sponsor.

Next stop: Rails End Gallery @rails_end_gallery Haliburton — July 15 to September 5. See you there! 👀

Congratulations to Julie Moon @juliemoonceramics on being shortlisted for the CCF-Lexus Craftsperson of the Year Award! @ccffcma 🎉

We were so pleased to feature Julie in our Summer 2025 issue: this recognition is so well deserved. Julie is also currently leading a FUSION mentorship program, proof that her commitment to this community goes far beyond her own practice. If you missed her interview, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our most recent issue and a full catalog of back issues are available at the link in our bio.

👉 Link in bio

Congratulations to Julie Moon @juliemoonceramics on being shortlisted for the CCF-Lexus Craftsperson of the Year Award! @ccffcma 🎉

We were so pleased to feature Julie in our Summer 2025 issue: this recognition is so well deserved. Julie is also currently leading a FUSION mentorship program, proof that her commitment to this community goes far beyond her own practice. If you missed her interview, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our most recent issue and a full catalog of back issues are available at the link in our bio.

👉 Link in bio

Visual artists: show your work alongside FUSION clay and glass artists in this prestigious juried exhibition.

FUSION is inviting submissions of wall-mounted work – paintings, drawings, collages, photography, etc – for the Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists, shown alongside ceramic and glass work by FUSION members at Neilson Park Creative Centre @npccarts in Mississauga, Ontario from September 21 – October 11, 2026.

This is a wonderful opportunity to get your work in front of a new audience — in a professional gallery setting, alongside an established and celebrated community of clay and glass artists.

📅 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 28, 2026 at 5 p.m.
👉 get more info and apply at the link in our bio

Visual artists: show your work alongside FUSION clay and glass artists in this prestigious juried exhibition.

FUSION is inviting submissions of wall-mounted work – paintings, drawings, collages, photography, etc – for the Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists, shown alongside ceramic and glass work by FUSION members at Neilson Park Creative Centre @npccarts in Mississauga, Ontario from September 21 – October 11, 2026.

This is a wonderful opportunity to get your work in front of a new audience — in a professional gallery setting, alongside an established and celebrated community of clay and glass artists.

📅 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 28, 2026 at 5 p.m.
👉 get more info and apply at the link in our bio

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