Studio Workshops - 2026

Due to popular demand, we are offering four in-studio workshops in 2026. There will be two sessions of Slabbery, a five-day intensive focused on form and design, and two sessions of Texture Explorations, a five-day intensive centered on texture and surface decoration. All workshops will be held in Sarah Pike’s home studio in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. Registration opens on October 29, 2025.

I’m still fine-tuning the details to make these sessions as inspiring and memorable as possible, but here’s what you can start planning for!

Texture Explorations - June 15-19 or Sept 29-Oct 3

Workshop Registration opens Oct 29, 2025

This is a five day, hands on workshop with a focus on texture tools and surface pattern play. Before Sarah makes a slab pot, she makes the texture tools. This is the behind the scenes part of her process. She has spent many years researching and practicing her unique surface design techniques and will demonstrate just how she does it - from initial design on paper to stamp blanks and texture roller blanks, to carving and refining, to stamping and rolling, Sarah will take students on a deep dive into what it takes to texture a pot. Students will explore stamp-making and carving, texture roller making and carving, card cutouts, pattern design, repeat patterns and more. This workshop will primarily focus on the tool-making and surface pattern aspects of slabbuilding, but students will make simple cups, tiles and/or plates as canvases for pattern and texture exploration.

Please review our cancellation policy before registering

Slabbery: Form and Design - June 23-27 or Sept 21-25

Workshop Registration opens Oct 29, 2025

This five day workshop will focus on the form design aspect of slabbuilding - aka slabbery;) Slabbuilding comes with its own unique qualities, but also challenges. How do you take a flat slab of clay and turn it into a variety of three-dimensional, functional forms? It’s tricky for sure, but Sarah has some tricks up her sleeve. Join Sarah in her home studio and learn from a gal who is obsessed with slab building design and techniques and has years of slab building design under her belt. In this course, Sarah will demonstrate a variety of slab techniques to create a myriad of forms. Students will explore templates, bisque forms, and cutting and altering to create and design forms of their own.

Please review our cancellation policy before registering