Workshop Studios

We're very excited to share that our current Artist in Residence, Minoru Ueda, will be presenting an artist talk!

He will be sharing about his art practice, his work at Workshop Studios and his career as an artist in Japan and Canada.

This event will be hosted in our beautiful Sunroom Mezzanine, bring some tea and enjoy!

About Minoru

Born in Tokyo, I have spent the last 25 years dividing my time between Calgary and Tokyo. I still maintain an architect practise in Tokyo focused on sustainable architecture. When I came to Calgary, I started taking sculpture and pottery classes at ACAD and more recently studied pottery at North Mount Pleasant and Fairview studies in Calgary. In Japan I study at the Shinoda Yuzan Gama and do wood firing with Aya Nakajima, a traditional Shigaraki artist.  I fire work at various kilns in Tokyo, Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures. 

I have worked with Shinoda to develop Oribe and other traditional Japanese glazes for kilns I am using in Calgary. In general, I want to continue to develop techniques based on Japanese ceramic traditions.

I studied the Japanese Tea Ceremony (Urasenke) for several years in Japan and am interested in creating unique vases, vessels and ceramic tea utensils for the Japanese Tea Ceremony as well as small specialty plates and bowls for Kaiseki cuisine.