Christopher Reid Flock: Integration/Disintegration @CDN Clay and Glass Gallery

by | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized


Artist Talk, Christopher Reid Flock: January 14, 2017 • 7:30pm
Opening Reception: January 15, 2017 • 2-5pm with remarks at 2:30pm

Follow Christopher Reid Flock on Instagram and Facebook. There’s a good chance there will be a live video of the artist talk on Facebook.
 
As an experimental ceramic artist,
Christopher Reid Flock’s work is profoundly influenced by the
significant time that he spent in Japan and the mentorship that he
received from some of Canada’s most respected potters. Among other
accolades, Flock was the recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award for
Ceramics in 2014. Although this ambitious exhibition will include some
works from his earlier career, it will feature more prominently his
large-scale, installation-based works that whimsically ‘play’ with
notions of function while merging rapid prototyping with classical clay
process.

A companion exhibition will feature works by Flock’s mentors Bruce Cochrane, Diane Nasr O’Young and Kayo O’Young.

www.theclayandglass.ca/exhibitions/current-exhibitions 
www.studioreid.com

Koi Neng Liew: Play Thing @ the Esplanade in Medicine Hat

by | Jan 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

Koi Neng Liew’s large-scale sculptures have a powerfully physical
presence inhabited by an elusive yet evocative sense of human spirit. In
this new work he presents a meditation on childhood and fatherhood, as
seen through the lens of play with his son.

Liew comments: “My son has a very different childhood than I did. He
has hundreds of toys: cars, planes, guns, action figures, videos
and Lego. I watch him as he imagines he is Megatron or Iron Man; he
creates his own alter ego, embodying the toys we play with. Fatherhood
has created an opportunity to relive my childhood. I play as though I am
a child again, but realize that in my son’s  eyes I am just as much a
toy as the ‘play-thing’.”

Koi Neng Liew is originally from Singapore, where he studied at the
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He received a BFA from the New York State
College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2001, and an MFA from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2005. Liew is the recipient of
numerous awards including the Roswell Artist in Residence 2008 grant in
New Mexico, and a 2005 Taunt Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation in
Montana. He is a featured artist in the Clay Art International Yearbook
published in Athens, Greece, and has exhibited in Canada, the United
States and China over the past 10 years. In 2010 Liew undertook the
year-long Artist Residency in the Medalta IAIR program and now is a
faculty instructor at Medicine Hat College in Visual Communications.

Jan 14 – Feb 25

Public Reception with the Artist
FRI Feb 3 | 7 PM

Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre
401 First St SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8W2
Hours: Mon-Fri 9AM-5PM / Sat 12-5PM
Statutory Holidays and Sundays CLOSED

www.esplanade.ca
www.koinengliew.ca

Canadian Ceramic Artist Robin Hopper honored with Order of Canada

by | Jan 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

“To coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation,
the three-tiered order was established in 1967 as a fellowship that
recognizes the outstanding merit or distinguished service of Canadians
who make a major difference to Canada through lifelong contributions in
every field of endeavour, as well as the efforts by non-Canadians who
have made the world better by their actions. Membership is accorded to
those who exemplify the order’s Latin motto, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning “they desire a better country”, a phrase taken from Hebrews 11:16.[2]
The three tiers of the order are Companion, Officer, and Member;
specific individuals may be given extraordinary membership and deserving
non-Canadians may receive honorary appointment into each grade.”

For a full list of those added to the Order of Canada visit the Globe and Mail.
Find out more about the Order of Canada here.

Think Big 1 and 2 starting January 5th!

by | Dec 31, 2016 | Uncategorized

Ben Carter and Molly Hatch
are running a new session of THINK BIG! and Think Big 2 at the same
time! So if you missed out on
the opportunity to take one of these in the past, your opportunity is
here to take the series you missed starting January 5th, 2017!
BOTH SERIES START JANUARY 5th, 2017 AND END FEBRUARY 16th, 2017
All content available through March 30, 2017. Remember, you get to work at your own pace!
How does the E-Series work?
Each week Ben Carter or Molly Hatch host a themed
conversation built around a topic that will help you discover ways to
find new audiences, market your business and sell your work. These
interviews are available at your own pace and will be released once a
week for six consecutive weeks. After all the lectures have been posted,
you will STILL have an additional six weeks to access course
information and bonus materials to continue work AT YOUR OWN PACE!
Participants are encouraged to discuss the videos each
week with a prompted discussion group online. Through the discussion
board you can connect with other members of the series and reflect on
questions and new ideas that come up for you each week. Molly and Ben
will be watching the group discussions and joining in to add our
experience with the topic. The discussions are ongoing and accessible
throughout the entire series, so you can participate at your own pace,
regardless of your time zone.
In addition to the weekly interviews and discussions
downloadable worksheets will help you work through topics each week and
generate task lists for getting your goals achieved! The worksheets are
for you to keep and work through as you engage with the course material.
By the end of the six weeks, you will have gathered new thoughts and
ideas, and you will have a clear direction moving forward in your
creative business–on to BIG THINGS
Find out more here.