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Volume 34 Issue 2 www.torontopotters.com e-mail: [email protected] November 2014 The 18th Toronto Potters Biennial Exhibition 2014-15 Executive Quite a few members sold pieces from the show. Congratulations to the President Filipa Pimentel, 905 277-9054, award winners and everyone involved with the organizing. All of the photos [email protected] from the show are on our blog at 18th Biennial Exhibition-Photos, All Artists. Vice President vacant Past President Shane Weaver Treasurer Natalie Waddell Secretary Hana Balaban-Pommier assistant vacant (Brenda Ellenwood, Archivist) Programme Susan Card: (Karen Rushforth/ Mary Clark, Librarians; Celia Brandao, Raffle) Social Louise Macnab, Deanna Sakai Membership Gerri Orwin, 193 Seaton St. Toronto M5A 2T5 Yumiko Katsuya email: [email protected] Karen Latorre Award (Paul Peddle, e-mailing) Eden Bender Mary McKenzie Exhibition Chari Cohen and Shane Weaver Fusion Membership Pottery Supply Sale Alison Brannen (assistants: Susan Card, Award House Award Natalie Waddell, Betty Walter) Publicity Margaret Cameron(website: Brenda Ellenwood, Susan Card) Newsletter Joan Spears, 353 Cedarvale Ave. Toronto, M4C 4K5 416-422-5015, Marlene Zagdanski e-mail:[email protected]: Tuckers Pottery Award (assistants, Brenda Ellenwood, Gerri Orwin, Margaret Cameron) Hana Balaban-Pommier Toronto Potters Award Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of every month, Chari Cohen Craft Ontario 7:00pm, Sept. to May except for Membership Award Dec., at the Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina Ave., Room 318. On the southwest corner of Bloor and Spadina across from the Mary McKenzie Gardiner Museum Bloor subway entrance. Please Heidi McKenzie bring your mug for tea or coffee. Award Spectrum Award Culture, University of East Anglia; Aurora. Thursday and Friday, 10- Curator, Department of Asia, The 9, Saturday and Sunday 10- 5. British Museum; and Research 905) 727-1278 Director, Sainsbury Institute for www.pinetreepotters.ca to Dec. 14,12 Trees at the the Study of Japanese Arts and Gardiner Museum, Toronto's Cultures. Gardiner Museum. Dec. 12-14, A Show and Sale of favourite neighbourhoods come ceramic works by artists of the to life in this year's edition of a Nov. 27,12 Trees G Party, 6:30- Woodlawn Pottery Studio Fri. holiday exhibition where one-of-a- 10. Now in its 26th year, this 5-9 pm, Sat. and Sun. 10-5pm. kind Christmas trees glitter annual Yorkville affair features This year we are at an NEW throughout the galleries. This dazzling bespoke Christmas trees EXCITING VENUE - Artscape year, 12 teams of the city’s top created by top Toronto designers. Youngplace at 80 Shaw Street. designers take favourite This season join us as they Please come, peruse the show neighbourhoods as their muse, celebrate our city from Leslieville and join old and new friends for a reinventing Christmas with a to Chinatown with their stunning, coffee at Youngplace Coffee Pub. Toronto spin. See designer one-of-a-kind trees. Including 30 versions of Leslieville, Chinatown, UNDER 30 AUCTION Discover Ontario Ceramics 1970 - 2014, Mirvish Village, Greektown, and the exciting work of emerging Lesley McInally, Exhibition Jan. more! ceramic artists from across 24-March 22. Reception: Sunday Canada during the G Party. The Feb. 8, 2-4 pm to Jan.11, 2015, Clare Twomey: artwork selected for this exclusive Permanent Collection Corridor Piece By Piece. Internationally- showcase highlights exciting new AGB renowned for her interactive directions in the world of ceramic interventions in prestigious British art. Buy tickets now, individual: Jan. 18-March 15, Exquisite and American museums, Clare $150. Gardiner Museum. Twomey creates a spectacular Woods. Trees are considered to commissioned installation about be the ‘lungs’ of the planet. While Nov. 27-30, Potter’s Studio 44th providing oxygen, they help to making and collecting, viewed Annual Fall Show and Sale. through the lens of the Gardiner's regulate climate temperature, Thurs/Fri. noon-9, Sat.0-5, Sun. water drainage and soil erosion. 18th-century European porcelain noon-4. 2 Thorncliffe Park Dr., galleries. Gardiner Museum. In addition, many are a source of Unit 16 (west of Don Mills Rd and food. In much of the world's north of Overlea Blvd.) 416-423- folklore, trees and forests have to Jan. 18, Scavengers and 1827. Scoundrels. Ray Mackie and provided protective and spiritual Debra Kuzyk (Lucky Rabbit refuge and have been venerated Nov. 28-30, Hill Potters’ Guild for their powerful magic. In our Pottery) originally worked in Fall Sales and Show. Richmond Newfoundland and now work out theologies, trees have served as Hill, 530 Carrville Rd. 905-884- metaphors for the interconnection of Nova Scotia. They have based 0327 www.hillpotters.ca their work on regional themes of all life, for connecting heaven and the underworld and for acting and styles but have updated their Nov. 28-30, Pleasant Pottery subject matter to deal with as portals to sacred knowledge. 12th Annual Show and Sale. In this series of ceramic installa- contemporary issues while Joan Spears, her students and evolving the decorative folk art tion art projects, artists Marie- open studio participants. Andrée Côté, Hilde Lambrechts, styles particular to the region. Fri..noon-9, Sat. noon-6, Sun. Perry Gallery, Art Gallery of Paula Murray and Grace Nickel noon-4. 566 Mt. Pleasant Rd. poetically interpret ecological Burlington (AGB), Curator: 416-489-1324. Jonathan Smith. concerns while exploring the interconnected relationships Dec. 5-7, Toronto Potters Winter between humans and the natural Nov. 26, the Importance Of 2014 Show and Sale. Fri. 3-9, Being Kakiemon: The Origin world. Canadian Clay and Glass Sat. 10-8, Sun. 10-8. Arta Gallery Gallery. And International Impact Of in the Distillery Historic District. Japanese Kakiemon Style Porcelain 6:30-8. Speaker: Dec. 5-7, Pine Tree Potters' Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Winter Pottery Sale. Aurora Professor of Japanese Art and Cultural Centre, 22 Church Street, 2 JAN. 27,Social Media - Or Why You Should Give a Tweet. Margaret PLEASE help us promote our up- coming Sale at ARTA Gallery, Distill- Cameron has been exploring the clay medium for the past 10 years playing ery District, December 5- 7, by con- with texture and colour and finds Raku particularly fascinating. Definitely necting with us on Facebook, Twit- not a wheel thrower, trained as a librarian, Marg has been working with vari- ter @TO_Potters, or blog and ous Social media platforms for several years, before being invited to the posi- website at tion of publicist for Toronto Potters in June 2014. www.TorontoPotters.com. The Marg will facilitate an informal workshop to explore ways that Social Media more successful the sale is, the better can help you promote your business/ art work/ workshops, by building able Toronto Potters will be to con- better connections with your colleagues as well as current and potential cus- tinue offering its great programs and tomers/students. Come prepared to share your challenges and successes events. FEB. 24, Jess Riva Cooper is a ceramic artist and educator currently based In return, please send us in Toronto. She received her MFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School ([email protected] ) photos & of Design and her BFA from the NASCAD. Cooper has shown work and par- info of ANY classes, workshops, ticipated in artist residencies throughout Canada and the United States, such sales events, exhibits...... that YOU as Brandeis University, Lillstreet Art Center, Medalta, Wassaic and The are participating in so that we can Archie Bray Foundation. Currently she is an instructor at Sheridan College. help promote you in return. MARCH 24, Carmela Laganse and Jordi Alfaro are sculptors with inter- The more interest we can generate in national reputations presently residing in Hamilton. This husband-wife duo the public about ALL of our mem- will present work from their individual sculptural practices. bers all year long, the stronger our Carmela Laganse received her BFA at the University of Manitoba and her group as a whole can be. MFA at Ohio University. She has worked, taught and exhibited in Canada, Eu- Thanks everyone for your assistance rope and the US, and has mounted exhibitions at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Sas- and support! katchewan), Nuova Icona Contemporary Art (Italy), as well as group shows Marg Cameron, Publicity at the Redux Contemporary Art Center in South Carolin, and the Gardiner Museum. She is currently Assistant Professor in Visual Arts at McMaster University. The perception of real experience, fantasy, and play are Carmela’s ongoing interests -- more particularly the intersection of meanings garnered from pop culture, familiar objects, hierarchy, language and childhood. Jordi Alfaro is from Barcelona who has been living and exhibiting in North America since 2001. Blending traditional techniques with contemporary con- cepts, he works primarily with ceramic materials, creating sculptures that are We were sad to learn of the non-representational, abstract and organic in form. His work references prim- passing of another Toronto itive adobe architecture, the body and weathered stone. In addition to his stu- Potter member, Eudora dio work, his art practice includes collaboration in public artworks and vari- Pendergrast, past sale chair, ous international projects. He has lectured as an invited artist at Indiana Uni- Fri. Oct. 17. Our condolences versity of Pennsylvania, Ohio University and the University of Manitoba. to friends an family. APRIL 28, Marney McDiarmid is a ceramic artist who lives and works in Kingston. For more than a decade, she has created one-of-a-kind, slab-built Congratulations to Shane pieces known for their grace, their whimsy and their unusual beauty. She uses McNutt, now Shane Weaver found materials and photographs to build pieces that tell stories and flirt with on his recent marriage. practicality. McDiarmid has developed her style through residencies at Medalta (2006) and the Craft Council of Newfoundland (2003).
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