Gloria Hickey craft writer

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Maudie The Film, The Love Story

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The real-life Maud Lewis in her home in Digby. The image of Maud Lewis the folk art artist gnarled over one of her trademark paintings...
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Monday, 17 April 2017

Timing is everything–Books, Film, Magazines & Music

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The Integral Quartet: (l-r) Peter Cho, Maria Cherwick, Peter Ko and Daniel Fuchs. The month of April is proving to be one of those mon...
Monday, 10 April 2017

Poems and Songs are Beasts–Amelia Curran

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Last Thursday April 13th, Amelia Curran started the local leg of a series of launch events to promote two artistic projects:  the releas...
Monday, 3 April 2017

All Things Aboriginal: Music, Film, Art and Language

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I never plan it, but it seems as if themes emerge from the events in my daily life.  A day after it was supposed to start, I heard that t...
Monday, 27 March 2017

Kate Crackerberry Works Magic

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Detail of a puppet created by designer Baptiste Neis. Upon entering the performance space for Ruth Lawrence's Kate Crackerberr...
Monday, 20 March 2017

This Place the Way I See It, Ilse Hughes at Red Ochre Gallery

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Ilse Hughes with one her paintings. On Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 the Red Ochre Gallery was a buzz with visitors who had turned ou...
Sunday, 5 March 2017

Marc Chagall: Colour and Music, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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It had been far too long since I'd had up my nose against a real Chagall painting, so I decided that a transfusion of his brand of col...
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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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