Play with Clay: Drop-In Ceramics Workshop with Debra Sloan
Join ceramic artist, and past MOA artist-in-residence, Debra Sloan for an all-ages drop-in workshop that explores the narrative possibilities of clay
Date/Time: Feb 22 2020, 12:00 am to 3:00 pm
Vancouver, Museum of Anthropology at UBC | Event calendar6393 NW Marine Dr
At 12 pm, Debra Sloan will be begin the afternoon with a brief tour at of the Koerner European Ceramics Gallery, where Sloan’s work is featured as part of MOA’s new feature exhibition, Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary.
Visitors are then invited to drop into MOA’s Learning Lab for an afternoon of all-ages fun. Discover and experiment with a variety of clay techniques, including press molding, carving, and painting. Then, take matters into your own hands by applying these techniques onto a ceramic tile that reflects your own story. Participants will then contribute their completed tile to a clay tiled stove, similar to the one exhibited in the Koerner Gallery, as they help build a new collective story.
Debra Sloan is a Vancouver-based artist who is alumni of both the Vancouver School of Art and the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has exhibited with and served on a variety of boards throughout British Columbia, and her work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. In 2015, she was honoured with the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Craft and Design. Working mainly as a figurative artist, Sloan was the first sculptor to have ventured in the sculptor/commentary direction at the Leach Pottery in its 95-year history.
MOA • Free with museum admission
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