Gloria Hickey craft writer

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Collaboration is in the Air

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Has anyone else noticed?  Collaboration is one of the new buzzwords in both the arts and business worlds.  It is a rare instance whe...
Sunday, 19 January 2014

Learning from the word NO

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Nicola working on one of huge pieces in her Junkosphere show at The Rooms. I learn more from rejection than acceptance and it is a l...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

WANTED: New Art Critics, New Blood for an Endangered Species.

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I often joke that the only people who make less money than artists are those who write about them.  And if those writers are the special...
Sunday, 5 January 2014

Why would you expect a tiger to be a vegetarian? Or Understanding Your Client – Basic lessons in marketing the arts

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Want to pump up your success?  You will have to learn some marketing basics.  This image is taken from Google's stock file. I get ...
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Sunday, 29 December 2013

Everybody Gets a Trophy - New CD Captures the Malaise of a Generation

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I liked the consistency in the design work of the actual CD to its cover art.   True to public relations wisdom they later went with a pho...
Sunday, 22 December 2013

Shortest Day features short films

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Based on a true story Le Trotteur features a young man who could outrun both horses and trains. December 21st is the shortest day of the...
Sunday, 15 December 2013

Opinions mean nothing if they are not substantiated

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A harvest of glass pumpkins by Michael Trimpol of Little River Hotglass.  Michael is one of my trusted experts when it comes to glass tech...
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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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