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Meeting Programme for 2008 - 2009
NEW LOCATION:
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
111 Queen's Park, Toronto,
Bloor St. W. at Avenue Rd.,
Museum or St. George Subway Stop
Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm (new time).
A presentation by our guest speaker follows the business meeting and a brief
break. Refreshments are served during the break.
September 23, 2008, 2008
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One of the newer members of Toronto Potters, Mark Jaroszewicz will be the speaker for the
September meeting.
Mark started working in clay 19 years ago and is a graduate of the Glass
programme at the Ontario College of Art. His international travels further
inspired his passion for creating ceramic art with a local identity. He
currently teaches as a sessional instructor at OCAD. Mark prospects and utilizes
indigenous Ontario clays, shales and minerals for his current series. An
enthusiastic researcher, he blends the clays and minerals with porcelain to
represent Ontario’s history within a geological marquetry. Some of these
natural clays have also been used as slip glazes. Mark’s sculptural work will be
on display until Sept. 14th at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in
Waterloo as part of the exhibition “Touched”, where the artists responded in a
“tongue – in – cheek” fashion to the museum environment, since touching artwork
in a public gallery is generally prohibited. Their work was made to be touched, picked up,
handled and experienced in a physical way.
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October 28, 2008
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TBA
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November 25, 2008
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Steve Irvine began working in clay in 1968 as a teenager and now has
had almost 40 years of experience as a potter. He spent three years as a
ceramics major at Sheridan College, but describes himself as being mostly
self taught. In 1974, he and his wife Joan moved to the Bruce
Peninsula where he set up his pottery studio. He wholesales to shops and galleries
in Southern Ontario and is a member of the
Owen Sound Artists' Co-op.
Steve has participated in many solo, group and invitational exhibitions and won many
awards for his work, including several for his volunteer work. He is author to
60 ceramic related articles published in various Canadian, American, British and
Australian magazines and his own work has been published in over a dozen books.
In November the BAC will be having a retrospective exhibition of his pottery and
his photography.
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January 27, 2009
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TBA
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February 24, 2009
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TBA
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March 24, 2009
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TBA
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April 28, 2009
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TBA
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May 26, 2009
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TBA
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