Gloria Hickey craft writer

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...
Sunday, 11 August 2013

Tuckamore Festival Reverses A Trend

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The Afiara String Quartet have performed on the stages of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and now the D.F. Cook in St. John's! Gone ...
Monday, 5 August 2013

Back on the Tattoo Trail

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A smiling Charlotte taken by Ned Pratt. I first met Charlotte at the Second Cup at the Avalon Mall where she was working at the time....
Sunday, 28 July 2013

Lantern Festival Lights Up St. John's

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The view of the installation on the hill. This is my summer of firsts.  So, after years of hearing about but never attending the festi...
Monday, 22 July 2013

Marlene Creates Makes Art in Tune with the Times

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Rob Power improvises on the bridge to the delight of Marlene's guests I have always been a fan of Marlene Creates' art, wh...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

KISS: Confessions of a Culture Vulture

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 (KISS: Keep it simple stupid) The skateboard community seems to overlap with the tattoo community. On the evening of Frid...
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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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