Gloria Hickey craft writer

Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Sept. 7th at The Port Rexton Brewery

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This is the image that has put me in my happy place today.  It is Paul Gauguin's Vase in the Form of Leda and the Swan , 1887–1888. ...
Wednesday, 16 August 2017

The Thorny Question of Text –Your Daughter Fanny & Carnival of the Animals

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Tuesday, August 15th those of us in the Tuckamore Festival audience in St. John's were given the opportunity to hear composer Ali...
Friday, 11 August 2017

Tuckamore Festival Provides the Spice of Life

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"Variety is the spice of life" as the old saying goes.  And if that is the case, the Tuckamore Festival certainly fills the bi...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

André Laplante Holds Audience Spellbound

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Salty Wind by Jean Claude Roy graces the cover of this year's program. The seventeenth season of the Tuckamore Festival has alrea...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

The summer novel you will both love and hate

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Craig Francis Power graciously agreed to a Q&A with me about his recent and third novel Skeet Love , which publisher Breakwater descri...
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Thursday, 20 July 2017

No Longer Taboo, Women and Tattoo Culture in Newfoundland

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When Billie magazine's editor, Terry Graff, invited me to write an article about my tattoo research for an upcoming issue I was thri...
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Monday, 26 June 2017

I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night –a Gerald Squires Documentary by Kenneth C. Harvey

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The highlight of the 17th Nickel Film Festival was I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night–Kenneth Harvey's first feature length f...
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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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