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Volume 45 Number 1 | Spring 2021 FUSION A MAGAZINE FOR CLAY AND GLASS FORCLAY MAGAZINE A FUSION A MAGAZINE FOR CLAY AND GLASS Editor: Margot Lettner Advertising: FUSION Design & Production: Derek Chung Communications IN THIS ISSUE Date of Issue: Spring 2021 FUSION Magazine is published three Editor’s Note times yearly by FUSION: The Ontario Margot Lettner . 5 Clay and Glass Association © 2021. All rights reserved. ISSN 0832-9656; in Canadian Periodical Index. The Edith Heath: The Making of a Committed Life views expressed by contributors are Margot Lettner . 6 not necessarily those of FUSION. Website links are based on best available information as of issue date. Paired Samaras: Please address editorial material to [email protected]. or to FUSION A Conversation with Andrea Poorter and Genevieve Patchell Magazine, 1444 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Aitak Sorahitalab, in conversation with Canada M4L 1E1. 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Lauri Maitland . 26 FUSION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2020-2021 President Wendy Hutchinson Chair, Clay and Glass Show ON THE COVER Chair, Nominations Chair, Makers Crit Edith Heath examining a clay-rich wall Chair, Conference of earth with her ceramics class from Secretary Alison Brannen the California College of Arts and Chair, Makers Meet Treasurer Bep Schippers Crafts, ca.1955–1957. Heath Co-Chair, Creative Directions Barbara Banfield Collection, EDA, UCB. See "Edith Co-Chair, Mentorship Program Heath: The Making of a Committed Chair, Database and Website Gene Timpany Life" at p.6. Chair, Magazine Catharina Goldnau Chair, Outreach Co-Chair, Creative Directions Silvana Michetti Co-Chair, Mentorship Chair, Glass Programming Amee Raval Director of Fireworks, Acting Director of Awards and Deborah Freeman Scholarship Executive Director Deborah Freeman Office, Website and Social Media Administrator Jenanne Longman Rewrites Address: 1444 Queen Street E. 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As the issue evolved, though, the idea became less about a Tsense of public “ownership” of art; and more about art in relation to the commons, or what I might call “art in public,” a sense of art being “out there” as a way to draw us “in here” to conversation. In her field guide How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell raises consciousness about how we spend down the precious resource of our attention, moving from individual to collective refusal to engage with distraction, to hold open and restore what she calls “the grounds for thought.” The issue begins with a review of a new and marvellous book, Edith Heath: Philosophies. While Edith Heath may not be well-known to some of you, she stands as a driving force of aesthetic, production, and innovation in 20th century North American ceramic art and design. Edith paid attention: she saw farther than the immediacies of craft or business to the confluences of societal structures; she saw the necessity, the ethical imperative, of making art for a public, in public; she grounded her work, literally, in landscape and materials she learned about and loved. Edith Heath, “Primordial rock fragmented,” 1971. My deep thanks to Emma Walter, Information Heath Collection, EDA, UCB. Office, Vancouver BC for coordinating contacts and series, returns with an account of the 2020 Ottawa Guild permissions with co-publisher Berkeley Design Books of Potters Virtual Annual Exhibition, capturing both the and project partners UCLA-Berkeley (UCB), The imagination and logistics behind transforming a Environmental Design Archives (EDA), and The Brian traditionally in-person show, first into a safe physical and Edith Heath Foundation; and to Jennifer M. Volland, space for installation and judging; then, into an online Guest Curator, and Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator, showcase for community celebration during a pandemic. Vancouver Art Gallery BC for their interest and support. We’ve embedded a link to the online OGP Exhibition A Pacific Coast note: this summer, Edith Heath and Catalogue and other galleries from the show: it’s a Emily Carr: From the Earth opens July 10, 2021 at the gorgeous tribute to the importance of remaining in life. Vancouver Art Gallery, bringing together two Finally, the quarterly FUSION feature, Spotlight, Modernist women artists. highlights the work of two Emerging Artists and this FUSION welcomes new contributor, ceramic artist issue’s winners: Zoe Gardner, Clay; and Lauri Maitland, and PhD candidate Aitak Sorahitalab, in conversation Glass. Beautiful work — underpinned by profound with ceramic artists Andrea Poorter and Genevieve engagements with philosophies about and Patchell about their experience creating their commitments to materials; ecosystems; and bonding installation Paired Samaras, chosen as part of the 2018 among human and more-than-human species, their Elora Sculpture Project exhibition sponsored by the landscapes, and lives. Village of Elora ON. Beginning life as a maquette, As we begin to turn outwards again, I hope these growing up in a barn, emerging into the street life of a reflections on the importance of art being — and village — Paired Samaras carries multiple histories of remaining — in public offer hope and inspiration for life language, culture, kinship, materiality. in the commons ahead. Potter and Guild Exhibitions Committee Chair, Elizabeth Davies, who last wrote about local ceramic Margot Lettner happenings in Fall 2019 as part of FUSION’s Raconter Editor clayandglass.on.ca | Volume 45 Number 1 | FUSION MAGAZINE | 5 Edith Heath: The Making of a Committed Life Edith Heath oversees production while wearing her Margaret De Patta wedding ring, ca. 1955. Heath Collection, EDA, UCB. All images this article: Information Office and Berkeley Design Books, used with permission. 6 | FUSION MAGAZINE | Volume 45 Number 1 | clayandglass.on.ca Margot Lettner s I opened the package and saw the Jennifer M. Volland and Chris Marino, is a book cover, a photo of a woman washed remarkable book about a remarkable woman in a shade of blue-green, I remembered who lived fully as an artisan, production Aa door. My childhood home was crafted from engineer, entrepreneur, and poet, at a distinct 1950s California Modernism: a small moment in American design history that still bungalow, its window walls, central hearth speaks to our own time. and carport a promise that California Living Beautifully designed, with a generous could somehow thrive in modest, temperate, array of images from the Environmental Ontario. Our front door was always painted Design Archives (EDA) at UCLA-Berkeley that blue-green: a colour evocative of a time (UCB), which houses the Heath Archives, and place that I now might call, Philosophies is a collection of essays by 15 “Heath Turquoise.” curators, archival consultants, and art and Edith Heath: Philosophies, a co-publication design historians, some of whom knew the of Berkeley Design Books and Information Heaths. The breadth of scholarship, reflection Office, with the assistance of the Brian and and comment is deep and diverse; and Edith Heath Foundation and a Berkeley wonderfully readable. A sample: an Crowdfunding campaign, and edited by evolutionary look at Heath ashtrays and mugs; Edith Heath on-site at the Pasadena Art Museum observing the installation of her tile, 1969. Heath Collection, EDA, UCB. clayandglass.on.ca | Volume 45 Number 1 | FUSION MAGAZINE | 7 the influence of technical and ideological art and arts education.