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How
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Letterfrom the President Orland writes, "The Alberta Crafts the years and a PERMANENT COLCouncil has been organized to promote LECTION has been established to reexcellence in Alberta craftsboth inside cord the developmentof crafts in that and outside theprovince. ACC must province. Funds have been donated by serve the needs and the concerns of the the business sector who have become craftsmen of Alberta. A small part of our most Jurors come from outfunding comes from our Member Asso- Side the province and these people stay ciations and we alo receive a small to make an even greater contribution
grant from the provincial government.
through seminars and workshops.
Some provincial craft organizations So far we are underfundedand this definitely hampers our work and thus have an ANNUAL CONFERENCE unour visibility. der the umbrella of their provincial
on the Board
come
various parts of the province and
from
are
either directly involved in the crafts We volunor are interested teer our time in your interestas well as
ours. We
are anxious to see the organ-
ization function
for all of us will benefit.
Visibility for the Council
craftsand
craftsmen definitely is needed-
he-a,
The NEWSLETTER
moment.
Orland LARSON, goldsmith 1981-82President,
has priorityat the
Alberta Craft Will help the
organizationcommunicate with the
craft community. A newsletter is only as good as the news or information it
Iberta Crafts Council
what
is
shared. We this means of
useful and regular and
Craft WORKSHOPS
usually short
in duration.have proven to be very uæful.
In my
observation, the best
we have acquired in Edmonton. Eight years ago. when
I was president
of the provinctal craft organization in ference of the Arts. Has officially Nova Scotia. I helped organize the represented Canada in Mexico, Japan, first annual juried craft exhibtion. Europe, China. Innumerable teaching Obviously over the years it has not and consulting pcs.itions, been withoutproblems, but it has beitions, awards Born in come enormously successful. Indivi'Saskatchewan, Orland has finally re- duals do respond when there is such a turned to the West bringing his com- showcase opportunity for their work mtment to crafts and craftsmen. We and they give direct credit to the counare indeed fortunate. cit. Purchases have been made over dian Guild of C rafts, Canadian
Con-
in
Nova Scotia will have their eighth
conference in September. Jack Lenor Larsen, internationally famous
designer from
New
York. who
fabric
inci-
dentally was born in Alberta, was their guest craftsman several years ago.
Visibility can achieved in many ways
and I have mentioned
only a few. As
president I Willwork towardsestablishing some
of these craft events for this
very purpose. Volunteerscannot do it
can be raiæd by ourselves, but we will
it can to make
the ACC is quoted as saying "I ones have paid for themselvesso there have come through the ranks and have is no need to exclude the very best of and insight Into the instruction. Rich resources exist in emergmg craft movementin Canada Alberta and then there is the rest of over the past decade. " Orlands leader- Canada! Often visits by craftsmen from ship experiencereads like an encyclo- other countriescan arranged if the gedla, head ofjewelrydepart- need is expressed. There is great value ment, Alberta of Art, Calgary, ina CRAFT RESOURCE CD(TRE and new vice president of World Crafts like in Ontario, it could eventually be Council, past president Canadian included as part of the new office space
signer Craftsman,past director; Cana-
and everyone benefits.Weavers
happening are annous
we definitelyneed your help.
Crafts Counciland Nova ±oåa
of co-
contains. So you people have some
communication
New York office of the World Crafts Council, Orland Larson, new
this kind
operationthere is minimal competition
all however. That is why ACC needs a Co-ordinator as personnel to
responsibilityto let us know
In a recent press release from the
council. Through
help the council bring things together. All these things involve money.
have
In my
to go
to government
opinion
this is money
Much
for assistance.
(much
01 if
ours from taxes) well sgpnt! Because we are concerned about our own destiny and we have vested interest in
what happens we willmake meaningful
decisions that directly affect us •as craftsmen. As the organizationgrows, we need
your support! We need your membership fees; we need you to tell us how we can help you so you can grow and be
enriched; we need your involvement on committeesand on the Board; we need to svnnsor obvious craft events that will be Of benefit not only to Alberta craftsmen but to the public as well.
It throughco-operationand con• sensus that we Will survive and inw terestinglyenough.
no one can do it
along, everyone'senergies and efforts are required. It is up to each of us to make the Alberta Crafts Council not only visible but productive. Join us in the rennatsance!
GlandLamm 3
ofassociati family A world
Alberta Craft Relations World Crafts Council
Asian Assembly
Latin American Assembly
European Assembly
AfricanAssembly
NorthAmerican Assembly
American
Canadian Crafts Council councils territorial/provincial 12
Crafts Council
Nfld.- Labrd.C.D.A.
Sask.C.C.
N.S. Designer • Crit.
Crafts. Assoc. of B.C.
P.E.I. CraftsmenC
Yukon Crafts Soc
N.B. C.C. Inc.
N. W .T.Crafts Council
Ont.C.C.
Salon des Métiers P .Q
Man. C.C.
FifteenMember
Alberta
Crafts
Council
Associations todate.
inside front cover). Il you belong
.to an ACC Member Associationyou are automaticallya member of the
Canadian CraftsCouncil and the World CraftsCouncil.
Canadian CraftsCouncilConnection Twelve provincial and. territorial tection, duty free entry of equipment sultant to many portfolios of the federal craft organizahons affiliated under the and collectibles. Successfull in a- government, Canadian Crafts Council, represent chievmg elimination of federal sales 35,000Canadian Craftsmen. It is un- tax (for sales under $50,000.00)for The above is just a short list of some fortunatethat Albertanshave not had craftsmen. Still pursuing elimination of the CCC's activity.When you many opportunities to knowoi the work of tax and duties on tools and materials. VISitthe 3rd floor offiées, in a wonderthathas keen done for us. These are a Did feasibility studies on establikhing ful old building on Elgin Street, few of the CCC's accomplishments "resident" craftsmen, and tools and Ottawa, you can sit down, prop your meant for the benefit of all Canadians. materials co-OFS. Initiated first nation- feetup and read just aæut anything Etabhsh€Äd index of craftsmen, spe- al travelling exhibition of Canadian ever printedon crafts. Out the window cialized library, bibliographies,Artisan crafts Artisan '78, Inaugurated annual youIl see the Chateau Laurier and the magazine. Initiated on-going talks for $16,000.00 Saidye Bronfman Award to Parliament.Buildings right across the NationalGallery of Crafts & D•sign, top Canadian craftsrnan.Carried out street. Craftsmen•fron all over Canada Council craft attitude. Pre- two major surveys of Canadian crafts- countrycome and go, and keepO pared briefs on; crafts jn public build- rnen, hosts foreign dignitaries. Third phone lines hot. A staff of 3 keep the ingz, health hazardg, loans and grants, World assistance proqram, major parti- place hopping. The ACC plugs into copyright and industnal design pro• cipant in World Crafts Council. Con- theCCCforyou.
ions
Albertan
Mary Sandin, master weaver from
%nonton,
was born on September 6
in 1901. Educated at the University of she graduated with a degree Household Econorrncsin 1935. She In dudied weaving in Boston with Kate Van Cleve Between 1939-40and was
awarded The Master Certificate in Weaving
by the Boston.Society
of Arts
Honored
With Ethel Henderson she coedited the rmnthly weavtng publication,I.com Music
from
1944 until 1965.
In 1947 Mary Sandin was a m-
founder With Ethel Henderson of the
national weaving organization, the
Guild of Canadian Weavers and is
responsible for establishing weaving standards and tests throughout the
& Crafts. She travelled to Sweden, country. She is one of the founding birthplace of her husband, to study members of the Edmonton Weavers weavingand observe their high stan- Guild and became their first president in'1953. Sre has won many prizes over
The Alberta Crafts Council has taken great pleasure and pride in nominating
one of the province's reknowned craftsmen
as one of the Honorary
for 1981 in the Canadian
Members
Crafts Coun-
cil.It is people like Mary
Sandin
outstanding
to
who
over so many years have made the contribution
crafts
in
thiscountry that we cannot forget.
Mary
Sandin was installedas the
honorary member for Western Canada
In 1941 she taught weaving at the the years and when contacted recently in September 1981. In recognition of Banff School of Fine Arts and then in Edmontonwhere she still lives at the this life time distinction, bfrs. Sandin taught at the University of Alberta age of 80, she was found still working was presented With the Canadian Crafts
through the Extension Department.
happily and busily at the loom!
Council
silver pin.
Bronfman Award $16,000.00 The Canadian Crafts Council (CCC) announced recently that tapestry
weaver JOANNA STANISKIS of Vancouver, BritishColumbia, has been
awarded the fifthannual &2idye Bronf-
man Avnra' for Excellence in the Crafts.
work acros Canada
in the following
two or three years. The CCC receives additional funds to cover the jurying
The previous winners, aside from
Ms. Stamskls was nominated for this Monique Cliche-Spérurd (who won in award
by thg Craftsman's Association
of British
Columbia.
1979) have been ceramist Rovin Hopper
of Victoria, BritishColumbia,
This year's Bronfman
jury included;
Cliche-Spélard, quiltmaker; Charley
smith Lois Etherington
Wnt
Raymond Phaneuf. potter, CCC Drector for Québec,
and
President
of Corp-
oration du Salon des Métiers d'Art du Québec: Marc Atre, Drector oi the Art Gallery of the University Of Wncton,
New Brunswich.
The Bronfman Award was created in
1977 by the four Bronfman
children to
stry •weaverfrom Vancouver Winner of the 1981 BRONFMAN A WARD FOR EXCELLENCEIN THE CRAFTS
Cliff. Québec in 1980.
oi Ayer's
Bronfman Award 1982
Who
willit be? ACC
re-
solved September 22, 1981 to
form Awards Committee.Let
•Itwill be given annually for ten years
this committee. Nominations for
Montreal on her 80h
birthday.
through the CCC. Each vanner receives
O
oi
honour theirmother Mrs. Samuel Bronf-
man
hanna STANISKIS
ætteridge
St-Hilaire. Québec in 1978, and
Farren. potterand CCC's President; ceramtst Louise Toni Caælti, goldsmith and -silversmith;
the first
winner in 1977, goldsmith and silver-
of $ 1600. an outnght •glit the recipient has kreri
However.
as
as an
outstanding Canadian craftsman, the CCC
and the Bronfman
Foundation ex-
pect that every effortwill be made to show a representativeselection of her
us know
if you'd
like to serve
on
Awards accepted from ACC
mernber asociations. Next Bmnf-
man deadline summer 2982. More information next isue of Alberta Craft.
7
SweepingCanada
. a sampling of what's happening to benefit craftsmen in Canada BOOKS ABOUT WOOD is a mailorder bookstore specializing in books dealing with all aspects of wood and woodworking. Four hundred titles in stock! Some examples are, The Ancestral Roof, Barnacle Parp's Chain Saw Guide, Early Woodware in Canada, Making of Tools. Free catalogue. Write: Books
about Wood, R.R. 3, Owen
NEWFOUNDLAND
Sound, Ontario N4K 5N5. Phone 519 - 371-0758.
AND LABRADOR
CRAFT DEVELOPMENT
ASSOC. (ACC's sister) hostedthe
1981 Canadian Crafts Council Annual General Meeting, St. John's Nfld., Sept. 18, 19, 20. The ACC regreted not being able to send a delegation due to insufficientfunds. Orland Larson represented Alberta as well at the World
MEMORIAL
Crafts Council.
UNIVERSITY
ART GALLERY,
st.John'sNewfoundland, isresearchingforCanada's first
thorough exposition of modern fine metalsmithing. Looking for names, addresses and phone numbers of key practitioners (living or dead), and/or people who've researched the subject already, location and dates or past exhibitions,
and
locations of collections which
contain
fine metalwork.
To cover
time period
back to 1930. Pewtersmiths, goldsmiths, silversmithsfallwithin scope. Contact Collen Lynch, 8 Upper Battery Road, St.John's,Nfld AIA IA4. Phone 709 - 726-3135. ANNA
TEMPLETON,
her retirement,
"We
have
highly regarded to watch
craft administrator in Newfoundland
that crafts don't get too exclusive.
be successful until they are available to all people and appreciated
The NEW
BRUNSWICK
CRAFTS
COUNCIL
The
said in an interview upon
crafts in our country
by them.
"
will never
and the Department of Tourism are co-operatingOG
plan to show N.B. craftsat 7 Tourist Information Centres. Juried N.B. craftmen will use the Centres as showeases
for promotion
of work
at itsoutlets.
N.B. CraftCouncil reports"ATLANTIC CRAFT
TRADE
SHOW
BREAKS
RECORD".
PremierJohn
Buchanan opened the fourthannual show attended by 360 retail buyers from Canada and U.S.A. Three
day event resulted in $400,000.00
sales. Numerous
major prizes awarded
for design. Now
that'sprofile.
NOVA SCOTIA DESIGNER CRAFTSMAN (ACC's sister), in statementof income and expenditures year ended March 31, 1980 reportsincome of $93,215.00.Income sources:memberships, summer and Christmas
craft markets, registrations at workshops,
Department of Recreation $43,200.00
annual
juried exhibition etc. Grants
from
SALON DES METIERS D'ART DU QUEBEC has accepted the Canadian CraftsCouncil'sinvitation to appoint a provincialdirectorto the CCC board. With Québec's new participation, the CCC now is comprised
of representatives from every province and territory.
For the 25th anniversary of the SALON
DES
METIERS
D'ART
DU
QUEBEC,
Molsons Brewery
provided a $5,000.00award for "excellencein productioncraft work". The award was won by glassblower Jean Valliéres, Beauport, Québec. THE ONTARIO
CRAFT
COUNCIL
has 67 affiliated members: associations, Guilds,Colleges,studio
Operates the Guild Shop in the heart of Yorkville and the Craft Resource Centre where one service alone is a 16,000slide library. Slides available for rental or sale. Write Ontario Crafts Council, 346 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5T
IG5.
MANITOBA
CRAFT
"consists basically
COUNCIL's
submission to the Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee
of the lack of interest of the local government
ondary education in craftsin Manitoba." MCC
to fund
crafts organizations
reports on the Government
and
post-
Of Manitoba's Department Development and Tourism, "Promotion Assistance Program". Funds are availableto
Economic
encourage
Manitoba suppliers of goods and services to penetrate, introduce and/or strengthen their market accessibilityin domestic and internationalmarkets through, trade fairs,trade missions and general
promotion.
SASKATCHEWAN
reference
and
"who
centre.
" (Future
CRAFT
It was
Craft will explore
issues of Alberta
in March
COUNCIL
established
to respond
could we contact to commission
same
moves
1980 began
to growing
a mural for .
for Albertans
to establish a craftsman's portfolio
inquiries on "who
? and
e)
can
teach
' 'who could be a good
a class in
juror for . .
and "who's doing . ?" The information will be open to researchers, writers, students, architects, Craft Portfolio, S.C.C Box 7408, designers, retailers, collectors, public etc. Write to Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 4J3.
S.C.C.'S8th Annual BATTLEFORD
FESTIVAL
HANDCRAFT
days in length. (Half of firstday of sale introduced orders, potential of another
$10,000.00).
others awards. Saskatchewan's
THE CRAFTSMAN new
in opening government
shook
Lieutenant Governor
ASSOCIATION
facilitieson our hand
Prizes awarded
Granville
and
grossed $70,000.00 sales.Event was 3
trade fair format, resulting in $4,000.00 included
$1 ,OOO.OO Premier
, new officialpatron of SCC
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Island, Vancouver.
said 'go for it'with nearly
people
put their shoulders
to the grindstone
and
$40,000.00, made
opened
in actual
award,
the sale.
several
(ACC's sister), has been successful
Newsletter
corporations contributed financially or with materials, the craftsmen any , many
Blakeney
editor writes, "the provincial
foundations.
donated
ithappen
!"
private citizens and
to the Benefit Sale and
Profile '81 The firstexhibition of Nova
Scotia craft
to tour Canada organized by the Nova Scotia Designer-Craftsmen. One hundred and fifteen
pieces selected by an international jury of five.
Plus a select retrospective
from
the N .S. Museum,
To show at Red Deer Museum
summer
and Archives,
1982. Excellent catalogue available.
$5.00. Nova Scotia Designer-Craftsmen, 5516
SpringGarden Road,Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Household fabrics by Suzanne Swannie.
What'sUp?
Use back page of Alberta Craft to publish your notices and news!
lÅz MOULD
accompanied
Calgary
(clay) from
a group
of Albertans
on a
Newcomers to
Department
the
Jewellery
at the Alberta College of
later visited potters in Japan. Pirkko
Art are Sarabeth CARNAT, Calgary goldsmith;Jim ROBSON who comes
Park took a textilegroup to Finland.
managed
ceramics tour of Taiwan lastspring and
(fibre) from Sherwood
KARVONEN
Wendy TCOGOOD
KIDD
(fibre) and Jane
(fibre)from the Alberta College
of Art in Calgary spent the month of May seeing textiles in blivia and Peru
The three teachers at Alberta
Culture's summer
were David GREEN Jim ROBSON niree
school in Fairview
(clay),Edmonton;
(metal),Calgary.
Calgarians
represented
Albertan craftsrnenat the annual meeting of the Canadian
held
recently
Crafts Council
in St. John"s, Newfound-
land. Derdre SPENCER
(fibre) was
from Frobisher Bay, NWT, where he a jewelleryproduction work-
shop and Sharon SIMMERS, a Toronto
enamelist who is the technician. Australiangoldsmith Carl MERTENS who
teaches at Capilano
College In
North Vancouver and Christel KLOCKE, Toronto goldsnuth/gemmologist will
fall semester
THOMAS
ACC.
Goldsmith Judy VITEK
was also
John
PORTER
(clay) who
lives in
Surrey.
director
BC
now
of CCC.
, was
elected
Franklyn HEISLER
(clay)who taught
last year at the University
replaced Les MANNING
a national
of Regina
has
(clay) at The
Banff Centre this year. Les plans to
spend the first half of his sabbatical working in a studionear Kelowna, and the second half traveling with his
familyin Greece and England. Mariette
VERMETTE (fibre) from st. Adelet
tkpartment al The BanffCentre.
Well-known tapestry weaver from Vancouver, MadeleineCHISHOLM is teaching at the Alberta College of Art this year while KatharineDICKERSON (fibre) spends her sabbatical on
Vancouver Island. Madeleinehas just
been selected as one of the three jurors
for the Atlantic Craft Exhibition. The dhor jurors are Jacques GARNIER (clay) and Virginia WATT (gallery
#irector) mth of Montreal , 12
Procedure Write to Alberta Art Foundation, 4th Floor Beavre House, 10158 - 103st. Edmonton T5J OX6, Telephone 427-9968
ASK FOR APPLICATIONFORMS. Submit with slides to RevaewCommittee.
Qualifications
(fibre)from Edmonton
re-
minimum penod of one year.
presentedAlberta as a working crafts- (ii) Artistscurrently not representedin man at Montreal'sEXPO lastsummer.
ACC director,Sharon NEUMAN (fibre) from Edmonton had a baby daughter in
Edmonton
has
attended several
the AAF collection. (Iii) Artists currently not enrolled with any visual arts institute. (iv) Artists who have minimum of one year's independent
studio activity.
meetings of the National Museums if the AAF accepts craft, Mr. committee.Lbuglas MOTTER (fibre) TnAsked Ng. director, expressed surpri has recently taken part in a televtsion that Alberta have to as Craft would program featuring former Canada We all have seen AAF shows which Council chairman,Gertrude LANG. contain clay and/or fibre works, the Joan VANTERPOOL (fibre), ACC collectionalready includes many such director from Edmonton travelled to pieces. He explained that the Art Europe in September on a two-weekart Foundation makes no differentiation and craft tour. between art on canvas or the art in a
A new creativeclothing shop has
teapot.
recently opened in Edmonton. Seeks hand-made
clothing, wearable
art in
Qebec visiststhe Textile Department at the Banff Centre one week a month etc. etc. Accepted on consignment as head of that department and is basis, 35% commission. E%nd slides/ photos or bring work to Lady Jane's, assisted this year by Pat ASKREN 10856- 97 st., Edmonton, T5H 2M5 (fibre)is in Banff working on another (phone 429-2996).State prices. specify book. Meredith BOYD (clay) from if quoted prices retail or wholesale. Eirnonton is one of the students working on scholarship in the Clay
Feb. 16, 1982.
Jane (i) Artists domiciled in Alberta for a
elected Ond Vice-Presidentof CCC. August.Anne LAMBERT (fibre) who Orland LARSON (metal)represented teachesat the University of Alberta In there. Former Medicine Hat resident,
4:30p.m. Monday,
at the
visitors
Art College. Past President of ACC,
Alberta Art Foundation Submissions Deadline:
knitting, weaving,
Rent a President
quilting, silk screen,
Eh you have furnjture and/or equtp-
ment you do not use? Please contact the ACC
for welcome donations.We
ocasional
chairs, storage boxes and
For the price of travel
and accommodation (i.e.billeting) ACC president, Orland Larson, will make
presentations
to your gathermgs.
Slide talks
available on crafts in China, Canada,
Alberta, jewellery,
etc. Write ACC
office.
need file cabinets, a drawing table, lampsr small couch, coffee tables,
things for the walls!
Makers - Lloyd McCabe 5214 - 38A Avenue, Edmonton
(462-4688) would like to hear from
you.
information.
Interested
to swap
Alberta Crafts Council wishes
to thank Edmonton Art Gallery, Women's
Society for co-opera-
tion in providing Christmas
a booth Craft Fair.
at the
"Studio Ceramics
SHOWS
in Alberta 1947 - 52"
Alberta Art Foundation
of the late Sibyl Laubentai to the deve-
Of
the people
contributing to this
exhibition only Sibyl Laubental had in a similar manner. ton was obtained any precedent to draw upon, she ms cataloguehas keen undertaken brought it with her from Europe; the lopment of studio ceramics In Edmon-
as part of the Alberta Art Foundation's
programme of documenting the art work in itspermanent collectionand
the artistswho created them, and thus making our artistic heritage more ac-
cesslble to greater numbers of people. H.M. ruyooka, Chairperson Exhibition Committee of the Alkerta Art Foundation Jean LaRnnte Mihalcheon, Exhibition Co-ordinator
Vv%le the 1960's are generally recogmzed
as the Eegrnning of the ex-
plosion in craft production, "Studio Ceramics" documents a segment of
people and objects that were wmng the
charge. This exhibition should inspire aftsmen of all media to look at Innings.
Jane Thornß
Fmm the catalogue: " The years 1947 to 1952 are important
to the history of studio ceramics in Alberta for they are the years that mark the beginmng
of an indigenous studio
oriented clay tradition.
The approach taken in thiscatalogue
to document the development of studio
ceramicsin Alberta during this penod was that of collecting the necessary informationby means of recording sonal recollections,formal interwews and questionnaires.
The catalogue within its limitations has attemptedto give a numberoi perperceptions of- the penod and thus a credible account of the matenals,
The Innocent Revolution Itisimprobable that we willever see
a rmre rmdestand unassumingshow
of ceramics
than the one
presented
here; ceramic art is no longer quite so
facts of an historical past and out of the thin trickle oi relative material that
was startingto appear from European on the shelves oi certain home
furnishing stores. Suitable technical information had only justbeen made
Binns), but it
were remarkably ignorant.
This exhibition demonstrates
everyone
that
involved persasted with con-
fidence, quite oblivious to the odds
humble. Seen from the perspective of disclose that they are the stuff of revolution, that they represent the ferment
LukeLin±e
1981 theæ rather naive pieces do not
that won ceramic art out of the twilight of Victorian china painting and procelain.neo-classicalmini-scluptures into the vigorous and popular outburst of
creativity that we know today. I am to
able to see these pieces
again, and to think about them, and
was shaped. The growth from here was
PHOTO:
Stoneware Jug by Irma Rodowitz, 1947-52
about those far days only forty years ago. This is not a section
showing
a stage
in the evolution of an art form. that is
not how ithappened. These are exam-
ples taken from a sudden, spontaneous outburst:a "rejectionOf" on one hand, and a "groping for" on the other. The essenhahty
thissudden uruque
of it is seenin
the
fact that
it happened
in al-
1935
to 1945.
birth of a new era was not
to Alberta:
tend to understand all of the forces that
Armenca
in the ten years.
EXHIBITIONITINERARY:
Medicine Hat Art Gallery November 13 - 29
Nickie Arts Museum.
U of C, Calgary January B - February 7
Peter White Gallery, Banff February 23 • March 12
Although I waspart of it, I do not pre-
acted on thosecritical years, but I do algary WithLuke undoe during this know thal it would be too much of d e and as such can be regarded as simplification,to suggest World War •nrnanly an oral. first hand account of Il or the revolution In the "fine arts" the beginnings of studio ceramics as had been in progress for fifty years; it we know it in the province today. ln- was something more fundamental that 01 Art in
formationon the work and contributions
need, out of an appreciation oi the arti-
agaanst them, until a workable way
took their ceramic trait-ungat the ProInstitute oi Technology
The drive to "reach" grew out of the
had not yet had time to soak in. We
most identical ways throughout North
uncial
pictures or artrcles that could lead; there were no exhibitions Of ceramics.
available (Norton and
techrucal developments and artistic interestsin the studio. the Information was compiled from the individuals who
rest oi us were unbelievably naive. NO
chools were teachingceramicsas we know itnow; no magazines published
Included those and more v
CATALOGUE AVAILABLE: $200. 76 pages.
Alberta Art Foundation (address
facing
page)
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You tothe CANADIAN
CRAFTS CONFERENCE?
The idea originatedamong the 100 held concurrently in Fredricton, Hali- Council. The Alberta Crafts Council Canadian craftsmen assembled in fax and Charlottetovm.This will be will be responsible for the final Japan as delegates to the World Crafts followed by professional seminars in selections.
Council conference in 1978. A grant
Charlottetown on crafts as busmess,
department of communication.
of craft organizations.
Application should be made
to ACC
has been received from the federal crafteducation and the administration as soon as possible. The deadline for Under the sponsorship of the
Canadian
Crafts
craftsmen
Council,
from
all parts
300
of
these applications in MONDAY,
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Travel costs from elsewhere in FEBRUARY 1982.The application must include 5-10 slides of current work, a Canada to the Maritimes Will be paid
by each participantor sponsoringor- r&urné outlimng the person's involveCanada will gather in the Mau,times ganization. mentin crafts and a non-refundable As well each person will between September 20 - 26, 1982 for pay deposit of $50.00. The balance must be CANADIAN CRAFTS CON- meals,$365.00 for accommodahon & received by ACC by FRIDAY, 14 MAY thefirst receptions, conference & workFERENCE '82. The theme of the 1982. practicing
conference is"Traditionin a Changing
World
Two day workshopsin clay, fibre,
glass, leather. metal and wood will be
shop fees,and transportationwithin the
Maritimes.
Alberta has been assigned a quota of 18 participantsby the Canadian Crafts
From The Editor
Mr. Art Collector leaned across the conference table and asked, "If you call yourself an artist how come you're
involved with a crafts council?" That question serves well to represent the many questions there are about art, about craft and the grey area between. &rne
craftcouncils seem to have fairly
clear cut limits on the djfinition of craft.
The ACC, however, must reflect not
only the diversity Of Alberta craft acti-
Interested people should contact The
Aberta Crafts Council at 10645 - 63rd Avenue, EdmontonT6H IP6 for further information and a registration form.
FUTURE ISSUES OF ALBERTA CRAFT
YOUR
awards
shows
galleraes
students
lectures friends toys studio
photos
complaints
glass
native crafts
exhibition
questions collections
wearables articles
enemies
hangings
thoughts schemes
cat that throws
dog that weaves school that teaches problems
concerns
drawings
store that sells plans
furniture
sales, fairs interviews
commissions
organizations
etc.
successes
traditionalcrafts
vity but the Alberta use of the word craft. Some oi this province's best
SEE INSIDE FRONT PAGE FOR DEADLINES
craftsmen work in art media. Whatever
vol. No. 1, Nov. 1, 1981 AlbertaCraft
known artists work in craft media, some
you call yourself,artist or craftsman. professionalor amateur and work iri cnntemporary or traditional forms, you have your own
definitions. Alberto
Croft wants to reflect that
Alberto Craft is open for your use. Use it to publicize your shows, workshops, lectures. awards, travel, fairs, competitions, meetings commissions,
etc, Vftlat really sets Alberto Craft apart is that it can be your wapbox ,
In these 248, O) square miles called Alberta, there are well known, not well known and obscure crafts. There are craftproducers, organizers,marketers,
teachers, students, collectors and suprn•ters. Alberta Cur-aft should uncover
this Otality. We urge you to provide artjcieg and photog from your geo. graph)!? jnterest and media area,
Jane Thomas 14
editor
CONTncrs
Letterfromthe President Alberta Crafts Council
ACC
fructure,
Albertan
Furding
- from Whence , Permanent
Craft Relations, Canadian
Albertan Honored, Mary
$16.COO.OO Bronfman Award
.
Did Home.
First [sue
Crafts Ccuncii
Cover•.Victor &næt, SacHemaker Sweeping Canada vmat's Up? Shows: Studio Ceramics in Alberta 1947•52.. You to Canadian Crafts Conference? ,
Page
3 4 5 6 7 7
Corne?....... Alberta
Connaztion
Craft .
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