Artist Talk and Workshop with Trudy Golley

by | Apr 29, 2012 | Uncategorized

AN EVENING WITH
TRUDY GOLLEY: RECENT TRAVELS IN CHINA

In 2005 Trudy Golley was invited to Shanghai, China to create a two-meter tall bronze statue for placement in a public park there. That experience started an ongoing relationship with porcelain, The Pottery Workshop‘s Experimental Factory in Jingdezhen, and China in general. Now looking forward to her sixth artist residency and coleading a two-week ceramics study tour to China in the spring of 2013, Trudy will present an evening of images and stories about the innovative ceramics research that she has been pursuing there.
All are welcome to this free event.
Appetizers and refreshments will be served.
Please join us,
Friday evening, May 4th, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
in the Sportsman Room at the Recreation Centre,
4501 47A Avenue, Red Deer. 403.340.2726

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THE RED DEER POTTERY CLUB PRESENTS
FROM START TO FINISH: FORM AND SURFACE

The Red Deer Pottery Club invites you to attend a
one-day workshop with ceramic artist, Trudy Golley
on Saturday, May 5th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Refreshments from 9:30 a.m. Lunch will be provided.
In this demonstration workshop Trudy will focus on methods for making and using paper clay, as well as strategies that encourage a personalized approach to press-molding and handbuilding. Trudy will also cover decorating and glazing techniques that start at the raw and leatherhard stages and progress right through to the bisque and glaze firing. The aim is to unlock the potential of glazes and glazing methods to achieve rich surfaces that enhance and support the ceramic object’s form.

Workshop location:
at CrossRoads Church
38105 Range Road 275,
(32 St. just west of Hwy QE2)
Red Deer County, T4S 2N4
403-347-6425
For more information please call:
Debbie Wilson, workshop coordinator
403.340.2726

Not to be missed: Visiting Lecturer Dr. Sandra Alfoldy

by | Apr 28, 2012 | Uncategorized

May 9 – May 11

The Manitoba Craft Council is pleased to present two lectures
by Dr. Sandra Alfoldy, Professor of Craft History at the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design University and and Associate Curator of Fine
Craft at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.  See below for full event
details and bio.

Dr. Alfoldy will also be serving as one of three jurors for the SLOW
CRAFT exhibition.  Application deadline is May 3, 2012, please follow
this link for details on how to apply.

Wednesday, May 9, 7:30 pm 
The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada
Lecture and Book Signing
RAW Gallery, 290 McDermot Avenue
Painting, sculpture, architecture, design and craft continue to jockey
for status in the artistic landscape, and one of the most coveted
positions is that of public art. Materials easily classified as craft
when produced on a small scale in a studio setting suddenly appear
sculptural or painterly on a large scale. Since World War Two Canadian
architecture has provided unique occasions to challenge and shape the
field we call contemporary craft.  This lecture will explore instances
where Canadian architecture and craft have worked together, and
sometimes at odds with each other, in an effort to demonstrate that even
in the twenty-first century they remain Allied Arts.

Thursday, May 10, 9:30 am – noon
Studio Visits with MCC

Thursday, May 10, 7-9 pm
DIY Will Never Die!
Lecture and reception.  Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave

The DIY Movement has received much attention as a new driving force
behind craft economics. This lecture will contrast historical craft
pioneers with contemporary crafters to argue that in order to understand
future craft economies as they are connected to the power of
do-it-yourself crafting, it is essential to examine past craft
economies.  What ideologies keep repeating, and what are the elements
that keep DIY alive and financially vital across generations?

BIO

Dr. Sandra Alfoldy is Professor of Craft History at
NSCAD University, and Associate Curator of Fine Craft at the Art Gallery
of Nova Scotia. She is the author of The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada (2012) and Crafting Identity: The Development of Professional Fine Craft in Canada (2005), editor of Neocraft: Modernity and the Crafts (2007) and co-editor of Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855-2005(2008).
She was the Chief Curator of the national Canadian exhibition at the
Cheongju International Craft Biennale (2009) and the 2010 Vancouver
Winter Olympics. She is currently at work on a new book on craft and
popular culture.

Lectures co-sponsored by:

Raw Gallery

MAWA

Gallery 1C03

Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library

University of Manitoba Ceramics Club

Government of Manitoba

Upcoming talk @ the Gardiner Museum (Toronto)

by | Mar 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

PHOTO: Bombe vase designed by Keith Murray for Wedgwood, 1930

FORM AND FUNCTION: CERAMICS BY DESIGN

Tuesday March 27, 2012, 6:30 – 8 pm Speaker: Rachel Gotlieb, Senior Curator Rachel Gotlieb, design scholar and Senior Curator at the Gardiner Museum, initiates the new Form and Function series with a lively talk about the important role of the designer in historical and contemporary ceramics. From Christopher Dresser, Susie Cooper, Keith Murray to Hella Jongerius and Marcel Wanders, she will discuss how designers enhance the functionality as well as foreground new styles and aesthetics in ceramic objects.

Prices
$15 General Public
$10 Gardiner

Lecture series brings artist Gwendolyn Yoppolo to campus Feb. 15

by | Feb 14, 2012 | Uncategorized

gwendolynyopollo_t.jpgStudio artist Gwendolyn Yoppolo will present a workshop and lecture Feb. 15 at Appalachian State University. Her campus visit is part of the Department of Art’s Spring Lecture Series. The lecture series is sponsored by Bob Meier and Doe Ridge Pottery, the Department of Art and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Yoppolo will conduct a workshop and demonstration from 1-5 p.m. in the clay studio in Wey Hall. A reception for the artist will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the lecture hall lobby of the Turchin Center. Yoppolo’s lecture will follow at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall. All events are free and open to the public. Yoppolo is a studio artist in residence at the Penland School of Crafts. She also has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation, a studio technician at Alfred University and an assistant professor at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. Yoppolo creates kitchen and tablewares from clay – intimate objects designed to be held or touched to the lips. “The forms I make engage the threshold of subjectivity by offering a conduit for nourishment into the body or between bodies,” according to Yoppolo’s artist statement. “The experience is more than visceral, as the body’s pursuit of sensual experience is tied into the process of making existence meaningful on all levels. How we choose to feed ourselves and others is connected not only to our sensations of hunger and gratification, but also to our deeper perceptions of ourselves, and of the larger stories we live by.” Yoppolo received an MFA from Penn State University in 2006. While at Penn State she received two fellowship awards for her research using the scanning electron microscope. She continues to work with this instrument to photograph the tiny landscapes of beach rubble, sugar cereals, plant seeds and insect parts.link

Rory MacDonald: Public Craft

by | Feb 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

Thursday March 8, 2012, 6:30 – 8 pm
http://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/event/rorymacdonald
Rory MacDonald discusses the importance of ceramics within the realm of public activism. Examples of Rory’s public interventions are his street tags of traditional blue and white Willow pattern made during his residency at Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alta. In another project called Curb Work, he drew attention to the deterioration of curbsides and sidewalks in downtown Regina. Repairing the fissures with exquisitely decorated ceramic patches, his strategic activism highlighted the deterioration but improved the urban streetscape. His discussion on Public Craft will look at these projects as well his most recent works. Ceramicist Rory MacDonald is currently Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the 2007 winner of the Winifred Shantz Award for emerging ceramics in Canada. Central to his current research is the exploration of the concept of public craft. His lecture will give an overview of both old and new works.

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Toronto, Ontario
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