This weekend (sorry for the short notice) Saanich West Studio Tour 2012

by | May 12, 2012 | Uncategorized

Meira Mathison

11:00am to 4:00pm

Spend time in the country with Art and Beauty.
This tour focuses largely on ceramics, and many locations are hosting more than one artist.

Look for the yellow studio tour signs. Brochures/maps will be available at each stop.

For more information please contact any participant.

*(Prospect, Elk & Beaver Lake, West of the Pat Bay Highway and
around Camosun College/Interurban Campus/Wilkinson/Helmcken to
W.Burnside Rd.)

Participating Members:

Please click on the member name to get more information.

2 Meira Mathison
1443 Hastings Street, Victoria, BC
3 Cedar Grove Gallery, Sandra Dolph
1443 Hastings Street, Victoria, BC
4 Heidi Roemer
1717 Woodsend Dr., Victoria, BC
7 Aspen House Productions Ltd., JOY FINLAY
270 Trevlac Place, Victoria, BC
8 Alexander Pottery, Nancy Alexander
270 Trevlac Place, Victoria, BC
12 eartharts, Louise Parsons
270 Trevlac Place, Victoria, BC
13 Lomalinda Clayworks, Pamela Truscott-White
270 Trevlac Place, Victoria, BC
16 Dirty Girl Clayworks, Faro Annie Sullivan
5321 Old West Saanich Rd, Victoria, BC
17 Black Bird Studios, Paige Coull
5321 Old West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC
18 STONE ANGEL, Audrey Van Eerden
5635 Forest Hill Rd, Victoria, BC
Click on Saanich West Studio Tour 2012 – Booklet to print this tour as a PDF file. (Adobe Acrobat reader is required to print this file)

Contact Info:

Contact Name Faro Sullivan
Phone 250-413-6782
Email [email protected]

Robin Dupont @ The Alberta Craft Council

by | May 8, 2012 | Uncategorized

Confluence
May
12 – June 16, 2012
Opening
Reception:
Saturday, May 12, from 2-4pm 

Clay artist, Robin DuPont, experiments with flame manipulation in his soda and wood fired pottery.

Robin DuPont’s education in the field of ceramics has been wide-ranging and includes educational training from four institutions, in three different countries. Robin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, and has also studied at Kootenay School of the Arts, in Nelson, BC, at the Australian National University in Canberra, and has recently completed the Master of Fine Arts graduate program at Utah State University in Logan.

A three-year apprenticeship with a studio potter; a research trip and several work-studies in Canada, U.S.A, Australia and Korea; residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Red Deer College; as well as the building and firing of many different wood kilns contribute to the depth of Robin’s experience in the field. His employment experience has been as an adjunct faculty member teaching introductory clay at the post-secondary level as well has six years of experience as a ceramics technician. Robin has spent four years building and maintaining a studio practice out of his home in Nelson, BC and is currently teaching at Alberta College of Art + Design as the 2011-2012 Visiting Artist in the Ceramics department.

Robin’s current body of work evolves from the intensive research into soda and wood firing techniques and skills that he has developed over the past 15 years, but in particular drawing from recent research he experimented with while in graduate school at Utah State University.

Robin’s exhibition illustrates his research into atmospheric firing: manipulation of the flame in the firing process so that it becomes a tool in and of itself. Manipulating and adjusting forms and the spaces between the forms Robin recorded the critical turning points and variables during the firing process in relation to surface effects. Gaining the knowledge of how the flame moves he is able to achieve desired surface effects in the kiln. The resulting surfaces record not only the firing process, but also how the flame was manipulated. Applying these findings or this ‘painting with fire’ Robin creates extraordinary and unique surface palettes on his sensual forms.

Robin DuPont was awarded project funding by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance and the Columbia Basin Trust to develop his artistic and professional practice for this upcoming exhibition and work. 

Alberta Craft Council Gallery and Shop
10186-106 St. Edmonton, AB
Tel: 780-488-6611 | Toll free in AB: 1-800-362-7238 | Fax: 1-780-488-8855


Gallery and Shop Hours: Monday – Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm

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

—
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