Gloria Hickey craft writer

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Cultural Tourism in St. John's, Newfoundland

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Arguably the cod are gone, we don't know how long oil with last, or what price it will fetch but culture looks like our best bet as Ne...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

Tattoo exhibition proposal, round 1

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Corey Thomas' dragon tattoo actually started as a tiny shamrock 8 years ago at a flea market.  Well, it seems everywhere I go ...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines

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C MAGAZINE "RESIDENCIES" ISSUE 119 + The Residencies List residencies.cmagazine.com   Andrea Willia...
Monday, 9 September 2013

Vote for Michael Flaherty! The RBC Awards, A short lesson in buzz marketing.

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Flahety's entry to the competition is a new piece done in the vein of his Rangifers Sapiens/Grey Islands work. For the second year...
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Monday, 2 September 2013

The death of regionalism in Canadian ceramics

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Walter Ostrom was a tremendous influence in Canadian ceramics for nearly 40 years. This week I have been working on the presentation I...
Sunday, 25 August 2013

Hot Mud: A National Survey of Contemporary Canadian Emerging Ceramists

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Maja Padrov from New Brunswick was one of my choices.  These clay "teapots" evoke metal. Guess what I've been w...
Monday, 19 August 2013

The Conversation that is Art

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This is the net as it appeared, rag by rag, at Model Citizens. Pam Hall has worked for years on a series of site-specific installation...
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Gloria Hickey is an independent curator and writer living in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador with more than 300 published craft related articles. She holds a Masters degree in Philosophy of Art from the University of Toronto (1981) and has curated major exhibitions for several institutions in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. including the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum. She has also published a chapter in the book The Culture of Craft (Manchester University Press 1997) and has edited two books published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization – Common Ground: Contemporary Craft, Architecture and the Decorative Arts (1999) and Making and Metaphor: A Discussion of Meaning in Contemporary Craft (1994). She is a two-time winner of the Betty Park Award for Critical Writing, hosted by the Surface Design Journal of CA, and received the 2010 award for Cultural Leadership in the Atlantic Region. In 2011, she was the first winner of the Critical Eye award in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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