Gloria Hickey craft writer

Sunday, 12 June 2016

Spotlight shines on real life

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This Friday evening I chose to attend a free screening of the movie Spotlight.  It was an event organized by the Department of Religion ...
Sunday, 5 June 2016

Enchanted by Anita Singh's Microorganism at the Craft Council Gallery

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I have long been a fan of the varied, but always passionate, art of Anita Singh.  When I first met Anita more than a decade ago she ...
Sunday, 29 May 2016

Happy Birthday Frankie! Or anatomy of a perfect party

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Last Friday evening I attended a Lindy Hop on the Rock birthday celebration for Frankie Manning, who is considered to be the founder...
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Monday, 23 May 2016

What do actor Rick Boland and Lego have in common?

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Actor Rick Boland - this would be the before picture.  I couldn't bring  myself to post the after-attack image. The sun is shining...
Monday, 16 May 2016

The Door You Came In

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Songs and Stories from The Danger Tree Douglas Cameron and David Macfarlane When author Alice Munro discovered David Macfarlane...
Monday, 25 April 2016

We are awash in war

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This is a 1984 print by Kent Jones.  It is not related to the story. Creating art based on wartime experience and history is difficult...
Sunday, 17 April 2016

The Secret Lives of Objects

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We invest meaning in objects that can make it very difficult, traumatic even, to shed them when necessary.  Downsizing the family ho...
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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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