CollaboratioNZ 2019

CollaboratioNZ 2019

Written by: Melody Armstrong, SCC juried Professional Craftsperson   March 8 to March 16, 2019   Attending the 2019 CollaboratioNZ with my partner Terry Johnston was an amazing experience full of inspiration, connection, and being immersed in creativity.  I...
Brenda Watt – Artist Statement

Brenda Watt – Artist Statement

Written by: Brenda Watt, artist featured in “The Narrative Dish II” in SCC Gallery   I create porcelain ginger jars for the variety of form and spatial opportunities they provide. Each jar is thrown and shaped to carry a cyclical narrative around its surface...
Lindsay Montgomery – Artist Statement

Lindsay Montgomery – Artist Statement

Written by: Lindsay Montgomery, artist featured in “The Narrative Dish II” in SCC Gallery   My recent Neo-Istoriato series re-imagines Italian Maiolica ceramics and medieval manuscript illustrations to create narratives, myths, and cautionary tales. My imagery...
Shaun Mallonga – Artist Statement

Shaun Mallonga – Artist Statement

Written by: Shaun Mallonga, artist featured in “The Narrative Dish II” in SCC Gallery   Beauty is a beast hiding in the grout and grime of a tiled bathroom wall. Feeding on accumulative plaque, nail filings, gargled water and fresh dandruff, Beauty predates us...
Japneet Kaur – Artist Statement

Japneet Kaur – Artist Statement

Written by: Japneet Kaur, artist featured in “The Narrative Dish II” in SCC Gallery   She knit wind rustling through trees, water singing amongst congregation of stones lining riverbeds, birds embroidering the air with chirps and whistles, she knit, she knit,...
Marney McDiarmid – Artist Statement

Marney McDiarmid – Artist Statement

Written by: Marney McDiarmid, artist featured in “The Narrative Dish II” in SCC Gallery   There is a word for it now: Solastalgia – the psychic pain we feel as the Earth deteriorates around us. Thinking about the effects of our changing climate can quickly...
Carole Epp – Artist Statement

Carole Epp – Artist Statement

Written by: Carole Epp, Coordinator and artist in “The Narrative Dish II” in SCC Gallery   Motherhood as a theme has crept more and more into my work over the last eleven years. It makes sense that the older my kids get the more they in turn influence me. We are...
Saskatchewan Craft Council at HomeStyles 2019

Saskatchewan Craft Council at HomeStyles 2019

Written by: Kaitlyn Frolek, Boutique & Administration Coordinator 2019 is the third year that the Saskatchewan Craft Council has participated in HomeStyles at Prairieland Park, thanks to the support of Creative Saskatchewan and the Saskatoon & Region Home...
The Narrative Dish II Artist Talk

The Narrative Dish II Artist Talk

Written by: Maia Stark, Exhibitions & Education Coordinator   On Saturday, March 16th at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery we invited Carole Epp, artist, ceramic arts advocate, and editor of Musing About Mud, to discuss the exhibition The Narrative Dish...