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Copy @ Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Arts
Location Gardiner Museum Lobby - Dates Jan 9th – Feb 5th, 2010
- AdmissionFree
- Ceramic artists have borrowed forms and designs from each other and from other media for thousands of years. This mini-exhibition reveals how Canadian ceramic art has been enriched by the appropriation of formal and design elements from sources as diverse as Ukrainian textiles and First Nations ceremonial art.
FILM – Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000
Friday January 15, 2010 from 6pm
Free with admission
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000, in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. 50 minutes Color and Fire explores the evolution of 20th century ceramics in interviews with many of the leading figures in the field, including Ruth Duckworth, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Otto Natzler, Richard Shaw, and Betty Woodman. Featuring discussions about Abstract Expressionism, Funk, sculpture, vessels, and the role of ceramics in world art, these interviews provide fascinating glimpses in to the studios, lives, and work of an inspirational group of artists.
Lectures
Engaging talks by artists, authors, critics, professors and more. 
Cynthia Hathaway: Dutch Ceramics and Design
Sunday January 24 at 4 pm
Goldring Lecture Hall
Free
Cynthia Hathaway, a designer with the Dutch collective Droog Design who often uses the strategies of copying and sampling in her work, will discuss how design practice has resurrected ceramics in the Netherlands. Yael Novak: Lecture
Wednesday February 3 at 4 pm
$10 public, $8.50 members, seniors, students (includes admission)
Artist Yael Novak of the Ceramic Artists Association of Israel (CAAI) talks about the artists and themes of the exhibition From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel. Yael Novak: Tour
Sunday February 7 at 11 am
$10 public, $8.50 members, seniors, students (includes admission)
Join Yael Novak as she leads a tour of the special exhibition From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel which also includes her work. Susan Collett
Friday April 9 at 6:30 pm
$10 public, $8.50 members, seniors, students (includes admission)
Known for her clay sculptures and extraordinarily rich surfaced pieces, Toronto artist Susan Collett speaks about her work and her master workshop experience in Israel. She will also explore the architecture of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Petra, Jordan and the stratified desert landscape of the Dead Sea.See their website for more info.
Gardiner Museum
111 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C7
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