EXHIBITIONS
Many lower mainland galleries will host ceramic based exhibitions to coincide with the symposium.
Please contact: exhibition.canadianclay@gmail.com if you have exhibitions around the time of the symposium.
The Frame Learned the Body
Kate Metten
March 14 - April 16, 2026
An exhibition of recent works by Kate Metten. The Frame Learned the Body offers a material-driven investigation into artistic work and the quiet architecture of attention—where making becomes both subject and structure, and solitude becomes a site of sustained looking.
Kasko Gallery, 560 Clark Drive, Vancouver
Open Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm
For more information: kaskoframeworks.com
Kinship
Rojina Farrokhnejad, Pedram Penhan, Cat Hart, Danya Gorodetsky, Felix Thomas and Jai Sallay-Carrington
Curator: Jai Sallay-Carrington
March 19 - April 24, 2026
SUM gallery + Queer Arts Festival
#425 - 268 Keefer St., Vancouver BC
One Month. Just Spoons
Susan Wallace
Jan 16-March 29, 2026
Opening Reception: January 23, 7 – 9 pm
Place des Arts, 1120 Brunette Ave, Coquitlam, BC
9:00 - 9:00pm M - F, 9:00 - 5:00pm Sat, 1:00 - 5:00pm Sun
For more information: placedesarts.ca/events/susan-wallace-one-month-just-spoons/
Temporal Dimension
Gloria Han & Yuan Wen
March 19 - April 4, 2026
Opening Reception on Sunday, March 22 from 2-4pm
Drawing from Chinese and Korean craft traditions, Yuan Wen and Gloria Han explore cycles of breath, growth, and decay through handmade processes. Wen’s paper works trace rhythms of repetition and labour, while Han’s ceramic vessels reveal how clay, fire, and time shape ancestral markings and emergent forms.
Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar St, Vancouver
12:00 - 5:00pm Tues - Sat
For more information: visualspace.ca
Fraser Valley Potters Guild
Annual Juried Show & Sale
Fraser Valley Potters Guild
Annual Juried Show & Sale
March 15 - April 9, 2026
Opening Reception: March 19, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Deer Lake Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby
Thurs - Sun 12:00 - 6:00pm
Re/Formed
Abbey Nevin, Carol Kong, Evening, Hannah Hashimoto, Jae Lew and Night
March 20 - 22, 2026
Reception: Friday, March 20 from 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: 1 - 5pm on March 21 and March 22.
The James Black Gallery, 144 E 6th Ave, Vancouver
Description:
Re/Formed brings together a dynamic group of contemporary ceramic artists whose work explores the transformation of material, form, and meaning. Presented as part of the 2026 Canadian Clay Symposium (Clay: How Hard Can It Be?), this exhibition considers clay as a medium in constant motion, which is shaped, reshaped, deconstructed, and renewed.
Re/Formed extends the symposium’s celebration of clay’s enduring versatility: its elemental pliability, its dialogue with the human touch, and its capacity to bridge craft, sculpture, and conceptual practice. Moving between structure and spontaneity, function and abstraction, the works highlight clay’s ability to hold memory while continually becoming something new.
All works in the exhibition will be available for purchase.
Sur La Table
BC Potters Guild
Annual Juried Dinnerware Exhibition
March 21, 2026, 9:45am - 4:00pm
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Room 102
A long table, many hands, and plenty of pots. Sur La Table is a one-day ceramic Pop Up at the Canadian Clay Symposium, hosted by the Potters Guild of British Columbia. This non-juried members exhibition celebrates tableware as a shared experience—an abundant, collective feast of ceramic work made by the many members of the guild.
All work in this exhibition will be for sale. This will be a purchase and carry show, so come early to get your favourite piece. Cash, credit and debit card will be accepted.
The Light We Cannot See
Fredi Rahn
Wood-fired stoneware vessels
March 4 - 31, 2026
Circle Craft Gallery
1666 Johnson St, #1, Vancouver
10:00 - 6:00pm
O5 Rare Tea Bar
Ember: Wood-fired Pots from Nelson, BC and the Sunshine Coast
Robin dupont’s Anagama Firebox
Curator: Nora Vaillant
Featuring work by: Robin duPont, Pia Sillem, Kathryn Fullerton, Shivaun Gingras, Jan Lovewell, Ron Robb and Nora Vaillant
Visit O5 for the ceramics, but stay for the tea! O5 is one of Vancouver’s most exquisite and intentionally curated tea bars.
2208 West 4th Ave, Vancouver
Open Mon-Thu, 12-6pm; Fri-Sat, 12-8pm; Sun, 12-7pm
Fired Identity
Greater Vancouver Chinese Canadian Artists in Clay
March 13 - June 26, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 2026, 6 - 9pm
Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey Campus
Spruce Atrium Gallery
12666 72 Ave., Surrey, BC
Decades of Collaboration
Linda Doherty & Sharon Reay
Craft Council of BC
CCBC Gallery
Window installation
March 1 - 31, 2026
1386 Cartwright St., Vancouver
Gallery hours: Mon - Sun | 10:00am - 5:30pm
FORM: The Mobile Contemporary Gallery
Kalika Bowlby, Sarah Leckie, Katy Drijber, Martin Tagseth & Robin DuPont
