Fired at the Ferry Building

In May, the Ferry Building featured artists from the North Shore, Sunshine
Coast and Whistler. We were treated to a wonderful exhibit of work by Tam
Irving, Joanne Copp, Lisa Henriques, Vincent Massey, Sally Michener, Laurie
Rolland and. Lewis Kryczkowski.

Jinny Whitehead

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North-West Ceramics Foundation
Speaker Series

We are pleased to announce the third lecture in the
North-West Ceramics Foundation Speaker Series. Our
speaker will be Ruth Chambers from the University of
Regina and the lecture will take place at the auditorium
of ECIAD on October 7 at 7:30 PM. Her topic will be
her forthcoming anthology of contemporary Canadian
ceramics.

Ruth Chambers graduated from the Ontario College of
Art and Design (AOCA 83) and the University of Regina
(MFA 92). She has taught at the University of Regina
since 1992 and is currently Associate Professor in the
Department of Visual Arts and Associate Dean of the

Faculty of Fine Arts. Her work incorporates a range of

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media, usually in an installation format, and often
including ceramics. Recent work addresses ways we
attempt to visualize and understand what is inside our-
selves, both medically and metaphysically. It explores var-
ious medical, cultural and metaphysical endeavors that
have aimed to transcend and reconcile concepts of the
material and immaterial, and the internal and the exter-
nal. She is also a member of the interdisciplinary artistic
collective Petri’s Quadrille which investigates relation-
ships between art and science. She has given numerous
papers, participated in symposia, and chaired academic
panels addressing such topics as contemporary ceramics
and craft, art and science, and collaborative art practice,
and is currently co-editing an anthology on contempo-
rary Canadian ceramics.

JulylAugust 2005