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Artist Feature: Natasha Martin @catharsis_cathexis
Speckled Blue

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.

Natasha Martin 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: Natasha Martin @catharsis_cathexis
Speckled Blue

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.

Natasha Martin 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

Catharina Goldnau

Catharina Goldnau

While I normally do the interviewing, I am just showing your beautiful show together with my Painter friend, Susan N. Stew While I normally do the interviewing, I am just showing your beautiful show together with my Painter friend, Susan and Stuart and would like to share share this exhibition with you on the Faces of FUSION. So I will interview myself!

While I normally do the interviewing, I am just showing your beautiful show together with my Painter friend, Susan N. Stew While I normally do the interviewing, I am just showing your beautiful show together with my Painter friend, Susan and Stuart and would like to share share this exhibition with you on the Faces of FUSION. So I will interview myself!

Congratulations to all of the winners being celebrated at the 2026 Craft Awards ceremony tonight! 🏆👏

Six FUSION members are Craft Award recipients this year: Genie Kim, Hannah Faas, Katie Lemieux, Yanick Robichaud, Jamila Monahan, and Deborah Hatanaka. We couldn’t be prouder of them.

📍 Craft Award Ceremony: Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West (ground floor), Toronto
🕖 Tonight, 7-9 PM
📯 RSVP through @craftontario

The ceremony will also recognize the 2026 John and Barbara Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement recipient and the 2026 Jean Johnson Craft Writing Award recipient and shortlisted writers.

Can’t make it tonight? The exhibition of work by this year’s Craft Award recipients is on view at the Craft Ontario Gallery until November 14.

Images:
@yanickrglass
@hannah.faas
@artist.katielemieux
@jamilamonahan
@toru_ceramics
@geniekim_artist

Congratulations to all of the winners being celebrated at the 2026 Craft Awards ceremony tonight! 🏆👏

Six FUSION members are Craft Award recipients this year: Genie Kim, Hannah Faas, Katie Lemieux, Yanick Robichaud, Jamila Monahan, and Deborah Hatanaka. We couldn’t be prouder of them.

📍 Craft Award Ceremony: Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West (ground floor), Toronto
🕖 Tonight, 7-9 PM
📯 RSVP through @craftontario

The ceremony will also recognize the 2026 John and Barbara Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement recipient and the 2026 Jean Johnson Craft Writing Award recipient and shortlisted writers.

Can’t make it tonight? The exhibition of work by this year’s Craft Award recipients is on view at the Craft Ontario Gallery until November 14.

Images:
@yanickrglass
@hannah.faas
@artist.katielemieux
@jamilamonahan
@toru_ceramics
@geniekim_artist

We’re thrilled to welcome Nova Scotia-based studio potter and educator Joan Bruneau for a thoughtful, visually rich talk on finding beauty in daily life through making and teaching pottery, something she’s done for more than 35 years. Working in Nova Scotia earthenware, Joan makes wheel-thrown and assembled slipware informed by ceramic history, nature, and ornament. Her sensuous shapes and patterned surfaces invite contemplation and inspire use. Presented in collaboration with @parkdalepottery

Spaces are limited, so RSVP early. 🙌

📅 Friday, November 6
🕖 7-8:30 PM
📍 Parkdale Pottery Dupont
🎟️ FREE
🔗 RSVP at the link in our bio

Want to go deeper? We have just a few spots left in Joan’s Flower Bricks workshop, November 6-8 at Parkdale Pottery. It’s a three-day, process-driven workshop for intermediate to advanced wheel throwers, and registration includes admission to the talk. Workshop registration is also at the link in our bio.

We’re thrilled to welcome Nova Scotia-based studio potter and educator Joan Bruneau for a thoughtful, visually rich talk on finding beauty in daily life through making and teaching pottery, something she’s done for more than 35 years. Working in Nova Scotia earthenware, Joan makes wheel-thrown and assembled slipware informed by ceramic history, nature, and ornament. Her sensuous shapes and patterned surfaces invite contemplation and inspire use. Presented in collaboration with @parkdalepottery

Spaces are limited, so RSVP early. 🙌

📅 Friday, November 6
🕖 7-8:30 PM
📍 Parkdale Pottery Dupont
🎟️ FREE
🔗 RSVP at the link in our bio

Want to go deeper? We have just a few spots left in Joan’s Flower Bricks workshop, November 6-8 at Parkdale Pottery. It’s a three-day, process-driven workshop for intermediate to advanced wheel throwers, and registration includes admission to the talk. Workshop registration is also at the link in our bio.

Have you been to ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL yet? 🐚🌿🪨

The exhibition closes Saturday, October 24 at @vesselsandsticks so there’s still time to see it!

The show marks the culmination of our 2025 FUSION Mentorship with Toronto ceramic artist Julie Moon. Over eight months, twelve emerging and mid-career artists worked with Julie on form and surface decoration, and the result is a body of work spanning both functional and sculptural pieces.

Exhibiting artists: Alex Chouinard-McLellan, Anne Kobayashi, Chloe Begg, Hana Balaban-Pommier, Jamie Bennett, Jasmine Cardenas, Keana Gauvin, Maddie Gabriel, MP Guillot, Talia Silva, Thomas Paik, V Vallièrres

📍 Vessels + Sticks, 112 Avenue Rd. (Main Floor), Toronto
🗓️ Closes October 24, 2026

Have you been to ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL yet? 🐚🌿🪨

The exhibition closes Saturday, October 24 at @vesselsandsticks so there’s still time to see it!

The show marks the culmination of our 2025 FUSION Mentorship with Toronto ceramic artist Julie Moon. Over eight months, twelve emerging and mid-career artists worked with Julie on form and surface decoration, and the result is a body of work spanning both functional and sculptural pieces.

Exhibiting artists: Alex Chouinard-McLellan, Anne Kobayashi, Chloe Begg, Hana Balaban-Pommier, Jamie Bennett, Jasmine Cardenas, Keana Gauvin, Maddie Gabriel, MP Guillot, Talia Silva, Thomas Paik, V Vallièrres

📍 Vessels + Sticks, 112 Avenue Rd. (Main Floor), Toronto
🗓️ Closes October 24, 2026

Artist Feature: Jane Garcia @clayexpectations
Rose of Sharon Hero

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.

Jane Garcia 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: Jane Garcia @clayexpectations
Rose of Sharon Hero

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.

Jane Garcia 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

Did you know? 🌱

Being part of a FUSION member guild, studio, or association doesn’t automatically make you a FUSION member.
Guild members are eligible for an Affiliate membership, and right now it’s just $30 for the whole year. 🙌

That gets you:
🏺 Supplier discounts
📖 Features in FUSION Magazine
🎟️ Member rates on our workshops and yearly conference
✨ And so much more

This one-time offer runs until December 31, 2026, so now’s the perfect time to join!

Not sure if your guild, studio, or association is a FUSION member? Check the link in our bio, and reach out if you have questions!

Artwork by FUSION member Corinne Lawless @dirtyheat

Did you know? 🌱

Being part of a FUSION member guild, studio, or association doesn’t automatically make you a FUSION member.
Guild members are eligible for an Affiliate membership, and right now it’s just $30 for the whole year. 🙌

That gets you:
🏺 Supplier discounts
📖 Features in FUSION Magazine
🎟️ Member rates on our workshops and yearly conference
✨ And so much more

This one-time offer runs until December 31, 2026, so now’s the perfect time to join!

Not sure if your guild, studio, or association is a FUSION member? Check the link in our bio, and reach out if you have questions!

Artwork by FUSION member Corinne Lawless @dirtyheat

Ready to take your wheel-throwing further? Flower Bricks with Joan Bruneau is a three-day, process-driven workshop made for experienced throwers who want to expand their skills. 🌸

You'll throw, alter, and assemble flower bricks, working through cylindrical, oval, and square bodies, lid systems, and foot rings, with plenty of time to experiment and refine along the way. It's a great way to push your technical skills on one of pottery's most beautiful and functional forms.

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's exactly the person you want leading this one.
Registration also includes admission to Joan's public artist talk on Friday evening.

📅 November 6-8, 2026
📍 Parkdale Pottery, Toronto @parkdalepottery
🎓 Intermediate to advanced wheel throwing experience required
🔗 Link in bio to register

Ready to take your wheel-throwing further? Flower Bricks with Joan Bruneau is a three-day, process-driven workshop made for experienced throwers who want to expand their skills. 🌸

You'll throw, alter, and assemble flower bricks, working through cylindrical, oval, and square bodies, lid systems, and foot rings, with plenty of time to experiment and refine along the way. It's a great way to push your technical skills on one of pottery's most beautiful and functional forms.

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's exactly the person you want leading this one.
Registration also includes admission to Joan's public artist talk on Friday evening.

📅 November 6-8, 2026
📍 Parkdale Pottery, Toronto @parkdalepottery
🎓 Intermediate to advanced wheel throwing experience required
🔗 Link in bio to register

Jordan Danger

Jordan Danger

Connect Online
Artist Feature: Jo-Ann Jordan @joannspottery
My Rainbow

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.

Jo-Ann Jordan 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

Connect Online
Artist Feature: Jo-Ann Jordan @joannspottery
My Rainbow

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.

Jo-Ann Jordan 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

Last month, a small group of FUSION members and makers gathered at The Ye11ow Studio @theye11ow in Prince Edward County for a six-day wood and soda firing retreat with Dawn and Jay Middleton.

Working in a traditional two-chamber noborigama kiln (named Alice), the group took on the full firing cycle together: planning, loading, sustained firing, and unloading. It’s a rare chance to work collaboratively on a firing from start to finish.

Photos by Kate Walsh @katewelshceramics and Eric Wang via Calvin Kellendonk @calvin_and_pots

The Ye11ow Studio offers woodfiring retreats throughout the year. If this sounds like your kind of thing, check out their page for upcoming dates!

Last month, a small group of FUSION members and makers gathered at The Ye11ow Studio @theye11ow in Prince Edward County for a six-day wood and soda firing retreat with Dawn and Jay Middleton.

Working in a traditional two-chamber noborigama kiln (named Alice), the group took on the full firing cycle together: planning, loading, sustained firing, and unloading. It’s a rare chance to work collaboratively on a firing from start to finish.

Photos by Kate Walsh @katewelshceramics and Eric Wang via Calvin Kellendonk @calvin_and_pots

The Ye11ow Studio offers woodfiring retreats throughout the year. If this sounds like your kind of thing, check out their page for upcoming dates!

Missed our workshop with Kiefer Floreal @kflorealpottery in the spring? You’ve got another chance!

Kiefer is teaching a two-day, hands-on workshop with our friends at Feldspar Ceramics @feldsparceramics on November 1-2, exploring form, function, and surface decoration on the potter’s wheel. 🏺

Kiefer will guide you through developing and experimenting with shape, texture, and surface to help you push your work in new directions.

To sign up or learn more, head to Feldspar Ceramics’ page.

Missed our workshop with Kiefer Floreal @kflorealpottery in the spring? You’ve got another chance!

Kiefer is teaching a two-day, hands-on workshop with our friends at Feldspar Ceramics @feldsparceramics on November 1-2, exploring form, function, and surface decoration on the potter’s wheel. 🏺

Kiefer will guide you through developing and experimenting with shape, texture, and surface to help you push your work in new directions.

To sign up or learn more, head to Feldspar Ceramics’ page.

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL OPENS TOMORROW! 🐚🌿🪨

A year of growth, experimentation, and dialogue with mentor Julie Moon @juliemoonceramics : tomorrow, we can finally see it all in person. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral opens at Vessels + Sticks @vesselsandsticks , and we cannot wait to stand in front of these pieces and take them in up close. Here is a sneak peek 👀

Featuring work by:
Alex Chouinard-McLellan
Anne Kobayashi
Chloe Begg
Hana Balaban-Pommier
Jamie Bennett
Jasmine Cardenas
Keana Gauvin
Maddie Gabriel
MP Guillot
Talia Silva
Thomas Paik
V Vallières

🎉 Opening reception: Saturday, October 3, 2–5 PM
📍 Vessels + Sticks, 112 Avenue Rd. (Main Floor), Toronto

See you there!

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL OPENS TOMORROW! 🐚🌿🪨

A year of growth, experimentation, and dialogue with mentor Julie Moon @juliemoonceramics : tomorrow, we can finally see it all in person. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral opens at Vessels + Sticks @vesselsandsticks , and we cannot wait to stand in front of these pieces and take them in up close. Here is a sneak peek 👀

Featuring work by:
Alex Chouinard-McLellan
Anne Kobayashi
Chloe Begg
Hana Balaban-Pommier
Jamie Bennett
Jasmine Cardenas
Keana Gauvin
Maddie Gabriel
MP Guillot
Talia Silva
Thomas Paik
V Vallières

🎉 Opening reception: Saturday, October 3, 2–5 PM
📍 Vessels + Sticks, 112 Avenue Rd. (Main Floor), Toronto

See you there!

While FUSION is known for celebrating clay and glass, the Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists has also been a wonderful opportunity to feature talented visual artists working in other mediums, joining the show especially for its final stop at Neilson Park Creative Centre. We’re proud to spotlight: Adam Wiebe, Narmin Kassam, Kaeli MacDonald, and Yasaman Mehrsa.

Their work adds a beautiful dimension to this exhibition, expanding the conversation beyond ceramics and celebrating creativity in all its forms.

⏰ The last day to catch the show in it’s FINAL location is October 7 at Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke. Don’t miss your chance to see it in person!

Image: Narmin Kassam, With One Voice 13 @narminkassamart

Narmin Kassam, With One Voice 12 @narminkassamart

In With One Voice, gathering is an act of belonging. Women come together while remaining distinct, carrying their own histories, identities, and lived experiences into a shared space. Handmade and decorative papers from different parts of the world are torn, layered, and reassembled, allowing individual fragments to become part of something larger without losing their distinction. With One Voice #12 and #13 explore this relationship between individuality and collective presence. Through proximity, gesture, pattern, and layered surface, gathering becomes a space where difference remains visible, relationships take form, and belonging becomes possible.

Kaeli Macdonald, more than the sum of our parts @kaelimacdonald.art

This body of work references a repetitive practice of locating oneself in time and space - geographically rooting into a familiar landscape and affirming a sense of identity through repeated action. Gathering often references the bringing together of a group of people or objects. In this work, I am exploring how we gather parts of self through practices that can hold multiple parts, stories and histories. Walking the same path over and over again, painting repeatedly - shapes, lines, and colours - until what results has become more than the sum of our parts.

Yasaman Mehrsa, Becoming @yyasist

The artwork I am submitting is a diptych composed of two mixed-media sculptur

While FUSION is known for celebrating clay and glass, the Henry Goodman Exhibition for Emerging Artists has also been a wonderful opportunity to feature talented visual artists working in other mediums, joining the show especially for its final stop at Neilson Park Creative Centre. We’re proud to spotlight: Adam Wiebe, Narmin Kassam, Kaeli MacDonald, and Yasaman Mehrsa.

Their work adds a beautiful dimension to this exhibition, expanding the conversation beyond ceramics and celebrating creativity in all its forms.

⏰ The last day to catch the show in it’s FINAL location is October 7 at Neilson Park Creative Centre in Etobicoke. Don’t miss your chance to see it in person!

Image: Narmin Kassam, With One Voice 13 @narminkassamart

Narmin Kassam, With One Voice 12 @narminkassamart

In With One Voice, gathering is an act of belonging. Women come together while remaining distinct, carrying their own histories, identities, and lived experiences into a shared space. Handmade and decorative papers from different parts of the world are torn, layered, and reassembled, allowing individual fragments to become part of something larger without losing their distinction. With One Voice #12 and #13 explore this relationship between individuality and collective presence. Through proximity, gesture, pattern, and layered surface, gathering becomes a space where difference remains visible, relationships take form, and belonging becomes possible.

Kaeli Macdonald, more than the sum of our parts @kaelimacdonald.art

This body of work references a repetitive practice of locating oneself in time and space - geographically rooting into a familiar landscape and affirming a sense of identity through repeated action. Gathering often references the bringing together of a group of people or objects. In this work, I am exploring how we gather parts of self through practices that can hold multiple parts, stories and histories. Walking the same path over and over again, painting repeatedly - shapes, lines, and colours - until what results has become more than the sum of our parts.

Yasaman Mehrsa, Becoming @yyasist

The artwork I am submitting is a diptych composed of two mixed-media sculptur

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