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FUSION Scholarships/Awards
FUSION supports member guilds in the crafts community by honouring excellence and endeavour in the field of clay and glass through the FUSION DESIGN AWARD.
Each year, FUSION provides Student Awards of Merit to deserving graduating College students in the two disciplines of glass and ceramics.
The FUSION Bursary provides financial assistance through the Scholarship Fund to clay or glass artists in financial need wishing to further their education in ceramics or glass.
At the Annual Conference FUSION presents Volunteer Awards for outstanding service to FUSION.
FUSION is eligible to nominate deserving individuals for the Ontario Crafts Council Mather Award. Since 1981 to honour their founding member and former treasurer John Mather, the Ontario Crafts Council has presented an annual award for lifetime achievement.
Fireworks Awards are selected by jurors for FUSION’S Biennial Exhibition.
FUSION nominates outstanding individuals demonstrating excellence in their field for national awards on an on-going basis where applicable
FUSION gratefully acknowledges the assistance and generous donations of our many partners, in making the Fireworks awards a reality.
To find out how you can make a donation to one of our awards – either anonymously or in your name, your company’s name, or in the loving memory of a friend or relative, please contact us today.
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Upcoming events @ the Gardiner
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The Vase Project celebrates the art of copying and the role
of the usually anonymous artist in Jingdezhen. Working with 101 blank
vases, the curators created a visual chain letter selecting factory
workers and painters from independent workshops around the city to copy
and hand‐paint a blue-and-white contemporary landscape based on their
original sketch of the smoke stacks of Jingdezhen.
The project took place sequentially over a two year period: the
first factory artist received the sketch which he/she copied on a blank
vessel which was then fired and passed on to the next artist to copy
on a new identical blank vase and so on.
The Vase Project exhibition reveals that even when working
by rote or mimetically the anonymous artist’s individual brushstrokes
contribute to a singular one-off aesthetic within mass‐production.
Curated by Barbara Diduk, Charles A. Dana Professor of Art at
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Zhao
Yu, Assistant Professor at the Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
This exhibition explores the recent allure of China on Canadian
ceramicists. In the past few years, numerous ceramic artists have
attended residencies and exchanges in Fuping and Jingdezhen, replacing
the tradition of visiting Japanese folk (Mingei) potteries, in search of
authentic experiences.
The exhibition traces this new direction and how/if it has re-shaped
ceramic practice in Canada. Themes include contemporary Western
interpretations of Asian iconography, the relationship between the
handmade and mass production and the endurance of blue-and-white (Qing
Hua).
Go East features work by nine artists from across Canada
that were made in China or inspired by their experience of living
there. Artists participating in this exhibition are: Susan Collett, Jackson Li, Sin-ying Ho, Rory MacDonald, Sally Michener, Ann Mortimer, Paul Mathieu, Walter Ostrom and Diane Sullivan.
Curated by Rachel Gotlieb
PROGRAMS
JAN 14: PANEL DISCUSSION: Engaging with Ceramic Processes in Contemporary Art with artists Clint Neufeld and Linda Sormin. Moderated by Mona Flip, Curator of the Koffler Gallery
JAN 16: LECTURE: Under the Influence: The Harlequin Effect with artist Kate Hyde
JAN 25: LUNCH + LEARN: Susan Swan: The Western LightFEB 9: TRANSFORMATION BY FIRE: Hands-On WorkshopFEB 12: LECTURE: Married to Pottery: A Life of Uncertainty with Senior Curator Rachel GotliebFEB 14: JAMIE KENNEDY VALENTINE’S DINNER
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Narratives: Lesley McInally and Wolf Kohler
Full Circle: Joan Bruneau
Artist Statement
My pots function as decorative objects
activated through use. Containment, delivery or presentation of food or
flowers completes their aesthetic potential. Sensual forms and sumptuous
surfaces inspire interaction with the viewer.
The
confluence of function, symbolism, technique and composition drive the
evolution of new forms, patterns and glazes. My pottery forms and
surfaces take cues from various cultures and periods in ceramics
history, natural phenomena and ornament. Shape and surface compositions
may evoke a season, landscape, architectural detail, or flower. The
variables of form and surface possibilities offer the potential to layer
meanings and influences.
Using Lantz earthenware native to
Nova Scotia, my wheel thrown and constructed pottery is decorated with
slip, sgraffito, under glazes and polychrome food safe glazes. The forms
are wheel thrown and assembled using “Cut and Paste” technique
characterized by gestural throwing lines, dynamic volumes and structural
seams. The surfaces are treated with brushed white slip, sgraffito,
under glazes and polychrome food-safe glazes.
Various glaze
palettes employed in Full Circle are intended to enhance different
foods, from fresh spring and summer salads to hearty, savoury dishes.
The flower bricks are also intended to compliment flowers and foliage
available through the seasons but also presentation of seasonal foods
and flowers, corresponding to a specific shape, glaze palette and
function. The Four Season Flower Brick Set, celebrates the natural
beauty and diversity of Eastern Canadian seasons while alluding to the
four seasons, a universal theme associated with the cycles of life,
death and regeneration.The Dutch developed the flower brick form in the
17thc to display highly prized tulips. In this case, individual flower
bricks containing seasonal flowers and/or indigenous foliage may be
displayed separately or unified in a circular configuration as a set.
The exhibition will also investigate the disruption of natural cycles by
human intervention through a series of pieces addressing the
globalization of food sources.
This venue offers the potential
to attract a broader public audience associated with the farmer’s
market who may not associate ceramics or fine craft with broader issues
such as the 100 mile diet vs. globalization of food sources. The
exhibition in this venue presents the opportunity to bolster the
relevance of fine craft and contemporary ceramics within a broader
social context.
BIO
Joan Bruneau has been a full time studio potter in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and Regular Part-Time Faculty in the Ceramics Department at NSCAD University since 1995. She earned her BFA from NSCAD in 1988, and MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1993.
Joan was Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University, Vancouver 1998-2001 and has taught in the Distance Ceramics Diploma Programs at Red Deer College, the Australia National University and Glasgow School of Art .
She teaches workshops and lectures across Canada and the US. Her work is exhibited throughout North America and is in public collections including the AGNS, Canada, Sykes Gallery, USA and Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, China.
Joan was the 2009 recipient of the Established Artist Recognition Award from the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership and the 2005 recipient of the Winifred Shantz Award which funded her residency at La Meridiana Ceramics Residency in Italy in 2005.
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Or read more here: http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/201217-ns-potter-comes-full-circle
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