Workshops at the Surrey Art Gallery Fall 2007 Guest Artist: Alwyn O’Brien Surface Decorating Workshop Join exhibiting artist Alwyn O'Brien for a demonstration-based work- shop on silkscreening and surface transfer techniques for clay. The workshop will begin with an illustrated artist talk in which O'Brien will discuss the conceptual and technical development of her work in the exhibition Mobile Structures: Dialogues Between Ceramics and Architecture in Canadian Art. 1 Session $20 | Sat, Nov 24,1-4pm | #570379 Mobile Structures continues at the Surrey Art Gallery to December 16. Guest Artist: Cindy Morrison Fountain Making Workshop Create a tabletop fountain for your home or garden. No previous clay experience required. 2 Sessions $94 | Sun, Nov 18 & 25, 10am - 4pm | #557365 Fee includes clay, firing and glazes. $25 payable to instructor for pump and tubing. Kiln Operations Photographing Your Workshop Artwork Learn all about electric kiln Learn how to effectively operations from an experienced photograph your artwork Alwyn O’Brien, Plenty of Sky (Garniture Series), 2008 pottery instructor and kiln (Digital or SLR camera) using. On Ce oe orutures: pialogues Between manager. Topics include: kiln mostly natural light and a minimal loading and stacking, firing amount of equipment in this schedules, cones and demonstration-based workshop. temperatures, trigger Basic camera knowledge is : : ae adjustments, troubleshooting, required. Co-presented with the Registration deadline: maintenance and safety. Crafts Association of BC. 4 days prior to workshop start date 1 Session $21.75 | #555285 1 Session $57 | #561321 Sat, Nov 17, 10:30am - 1pm Sat, Oct 20, 10am — 4pm REGISTRATION Instructor: Murray Sanders Guest Instructor: Barbara Cohen 604-501-5100 | www.register.surrey.ca surrey art gallery | 13750 - 88 Avenue surrey centre | block east of King George Hwy ee Canada Council Conseil des Arts &éA SOLO NIBIA a 604-501-5566 for the Arts du Canada ARTS COUNCIL www.arts.surrey.ca NeoCraft: Sandra Alfoldy Modernity and the Crafts The relationship between the crafts and modernity has long and the crafts. Drawing upon writings in the fields of craft y been characterized as difficult: the crafts are often percerved as history, art history, philosophy, museum studies, occupying a marginalized role in the discourses of modernism. anthropology, fashion theory, history, women’s NeoCrajt: Modernity and the Crafts seeks to challenge the assumptions _ studies, and design, this book explores in detail surrounding this relatonship by introducing a wide range of the shifting and influential cultural position of scholarly essays that explore the historical, contemporary and the crafts. NeoCraft is divided into five central future positioning of the crafts within the broader scope of themes: Cultural Redundancy or The Genre visual culture. The crafts occupy an important role in material, Under Threat; Global Craft; Crafts and Political globalized modernity, and as such they must be understood Economy; Invention of Tradition: Craft and through a multiplicity of gazes. With that in mind NeoCra/t: Utopian Ideals; and Craft, the Senses and New POTTERS Modernity and the Crafts unites an mternational, interdisciplinary Technologies. Within each of these themes GUILD range of writers who are actively contextualizing modernity leading scholars, craftspeople and curators of BRITISH COLUMBIA continued on page 17... ee