When you look for a pottery class on the Plateau, most of what comes up sits around Saint-Denis and Saint-Laurent. We're somewhere else: on the east side of the neighbourhood, on rue d'Iberville, in an industrial building full of small businesses and creative people, away from the noise. It was a deliberate choice, and it explains a lot about the studio.
Where we actually are
The studio is at 5000 rue d'Iberville, suite 138A. It's the eastern edge of the Plateau-Mont-Royal, where the neighbourhood turns quieter and more industrial: the big soft-green box, right at the end of Gilford.
If you live on the Plateau, the easiest way over is usually through parc Saint-Pierre-Clavier. It's a shortcut most people don't know about, and it makes the studio far closer than it looks on a map.
Bixi stations, several bus lines (97, 27, 94), and free parking: getting here is one of the real advantages of this area.
What I appreciate is being close to the buzz of avenue Mont-Royal while having green space like parc Baldwin just down the street. Every single class, at least one person turns out to live around the corner!
Why a ceramics studio needs room
A pottery studio isn't an office with tables in it. You need space for the wheels, shelving for drying, storage for clay, and above all somewhere to put the kiln. A ceramic kiln is heavy, it climbs past a thousand degrees, and it runs for hours. That takes proper electrical work and a building that allows this kind of use.
That's why ceramics studios tend to end up in old industrial buildings rather than on commercial strips. It isn't a compromise: it's what lets us keep kilns on site, and fire your pieces ourselves instead of sending them somewhere else.
What that changes for you
The studio is quiet. No traffic outside the door, no street noise. For an activity built around slowing down, that turns out to matter more than people expect.
And there's room. Enough that classes stay small without feeling cramped, and enough to host a whole private group without anyone being on top of each other.
What we teach here
The 2.5-hour introductory classes run on Saturdays: wheel-throwing in the morning, handbuilding in the afternoon. The multi-week sessions run on weekday evenings.
There are also private classes, where the studio is reserved for your group for the whole session. That format works particularly well here because of the space: we can host a group without disturbing anyone, and the group can bring whatever they like.
Every format and all available dates are on our pottery classes in Montreal page.
Coming from further out
The studio is also easy to reach from Rosemont, La Petite-Patrie and Villeray, which sit just north of us. A good number of our students come from those neighbourhoods, sometimes faster than people living on the west side of the Plateau.
If the distance is making you hesitate: come once for an introductory class before committing to a full session. It's the best way to find out whether the trip works for you. And the parking is free!
Marie