Gloria Hickey craft writer

Friday, 21 August 2015

Play on! Week Two of the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival

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I don't think there was single person in the audience last night, at the Brilliance of Beethoven , that wasn't blown away by the...
Saturday, 15 August 2015

From Inspiration to Perspiration: Week One of the Tuckamore Festival

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Surely the Festival faithful are by now staggering under the weight of extraordinary music.  "Week one" is nearly over.  We...
Thursday, 13 August 2015

Duke Trio hits a KO

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At a loss for words last night, I was left gasping with my fellow members of the audience.  We shook our heads and simply said, "Wo...
Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Festival Fever Erupts with February

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Evelyn Hart gave a riveting performance in St. John's. Masterful is the single word that keeps coming to my mind after the Tuckamo...
Sunday, 9 August 2015

Affordable Luxuries - Birthday celebrating Gloria Style

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I am a firm believer that imagination is worth more than cash. So often in life I have discovered that what I have is champagne taste and a...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

There were a lot more hugs than tears

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Kelly with a beloved cat that we are now trying to find a home for. I don't usually go to memorial services for friends who have p...
Sunday, 26 July 2015

Loosing Track of Normal, the growing queer umbrella

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I am admiring the two-coloured lipstick on a young friend.  She is wearing a fetching combination of blue, blue overlapped with pink and...
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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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