Sharoni Sibony

I am a community weaver and organizer, artist, and educator across multiple disciplines. Outside of Woodlawn, you can find me at various venues around Toronto with my mobile Art Cart – a treasure trove of mixed media materials that I take on the road to teach and facilitate open-ended creative exploration.

Professionally, I'm a lecturer, tour guide, pottery instructor, creativity facilitator, and book club leader in lots of different places. I had the great joy of being the pottery instructor at Woodlawn from 2017 to 2020, where I got to be a bridge between our members and students. I love to play with clay and teach other people to do that, too.

I think most people stop giving themselves permission to play as they age and commit to professional and familial or communal roles. As a facilitator, my greatest joy is giving people permission -- to try, to make mistakes, to experiment, to play, to set goals big and small, or just to start and see what happens.

Lately, I've been making art about the relationship between chronic illness, ritual, and rest, and you can see some of my work in the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health, and Disability.

My own pottery practice, which continues to develop after more than 30 years, focuses on functional hand-building and wheel throwing with a lot of carved surface decorations. 
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