Gloria Hickey craft writer

Monday, 25 November 2013

'Tis the Season for Craft Fairs: Niche Marketing Succeeds

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Once upon a time, craft fairs were the stuff of church bazaars.   In other words, the hand made goods were created and donated with good i...
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Sunday, 17 November 2013

What do you believe in?

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Thanks for the loan of the catalogue Mary!  I understand it is for sale from the Agnes Etherington Gallery for $22. This week throug...
Sunday, 10 November 2013

All Things Tattoo

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This picture comes from James Lane's Facebook page James Lane, known as Jimmy, was important to my decision to do the Tattoo P...
Sunday, 3 November 2013

Oh those Celadon Greens –Emerging Artists Competitions and Studio Magazine

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view of Amélie Proulx's winning artwork  Jardinet Méchanique , which combines ceramics with microprocessors to create a moving gard...
Monday, 28 October 2013

Maestros and Pirates

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Craft's very own pirate, the man in the eye patch Dale Chihuly in Montreal with one of his chandelier creations. As October draws to...
Sunday, 20 October 2013

This Salty Water - Definitely Not a Landscape Show

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      Controlled Dive by Gerald Vaandering. Serigraph on plastic 40” X 60” 1 of 1 2012 This past Friday I had the dist...
Sunday, 13 October 2013

Feast of Pottery Feeds the Eyes and the Soul

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A week where the first Canadian, Alice Munro, won the Nobel Prize for literature; a brilliantly sunny long weekend in the Fall that se...
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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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