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Antonio Lewis, Director (Cuba)
Antonio Lewis is a ceramic artist, specialist
in industrial technology, and professor at the Instituto de Arte
Wifredo Lam. He presents workshops on the theme of “Technology
Serving Art” and has participated in residencies focusing
on investigative research in Germany, Bulgaria, Russia and Guyana.
He has participated in more than 50 national and international
exhibitions and his award winning work is in the permanent collection
of the Museo de la Ceramica in Havana, Cuba. 2003 NCECA presenter.
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| Catherine
Merrill, Director (USA)
Catherine Merrill’s work explores the human
figure and has been shown in over 150 national and international
exhibitions. She has been published in Ceramics Art & Perception,
the Studio Potter, Neue Keramik and Contemporary American Pottery.
Merrill has presented numerous workshops and lectures at colleges
and art centers. Catherine was recently awarded a grant from the
Laila Art Fund and residencies in Hawaii and Santiago, Cuba. She
received her BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute.
2003 NCECA presenter.
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| David Lloyd,
On Site Liaison (Canada)
David Lloyd is the Ceramics Instructor at Kwantlen
University College, an active member and past president of the Fraser
Valley Potters Guild and an exhibiting potter known for wood fired
work. He has given numerous workshops locally and in Korea. Trained
by Yukio Yamamoto at the Tozan Kilns at Nanaimo and Flagstaff, he
has participated in wood firings in Canada, the US, Japan and Korea.
David Lloyd received his formal education at the University of British
Columbia and Kyoto University.
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| Alison Petty,
Project Coordinator (Canada)
Alison Petty has studied at Goldsmith’s College,
University of London and received her BFA from Concordia University.
She has worked for over five years as a Studio Manager and Instructor
in a community pottery studio setting. She has exhibited in both
Canada and the U.S. and was recently selected to receive both a
B.C. Arts Council Grant and the George and Dorothy Saxe Scholarship
for Excellence in the Glass and Ceramic Arts. She completed her
Masters Degree at the California College of Art.
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| Alberto Lescay
(Cuba)
Alberto Lescay received graduate degrees from the
Escuela Nacional de Art in Havana and the Russian Institute of Art
& Design in St.Petersburg. Lescay has participated in more than
200 national & international exhibitions. He is a member of
the Union Internacional de Artes Plastica and the Union de Escritores
y Artistas Cubanos. Lescay is one of Cuba’s leading sculptors
of monumental bronzes as a well as a painter, printmaker and ceramist.
He is currently the President of the Fundacion Caguayo, Center for
the Applied and Monumental Arts in Santiago.
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| Xiomara Gutierrez
(Cuba)
Xiomara Gutierrez is a member of the Asociacion Cubana
de Artesanos y Artistas and the founder in 1986 of the annual symposium,
Encuentro Internacional Terracota at the Taller Cultural in Santiago,
Cuba. She received her Degree of Fine Arts from the Jose Joaquin
Tejeda Art Institute. Xiomara has participated in more than 150
national and international exhibitions and has been awarded residencies
in the United States and Spain. She is the Director of Ceramics
at the Taller Cultural.
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| Jose Vasquez
Xenes (Cuba)
Jose Vasquez Xenes is professor of Ceramics at the
Academia de Arte Wilfredo Lam. This award-winning artist has exhibited
in national and international exhibitions including the first National
Salon of Contemporary Art in Havana, the IV National Ceramics Bienal
in Havana, the National Ceramics Museum in Havana, and international
exhibitions in the USA, Argentina, and Egypt.
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| Judy Burke
(Canada)
Judith Burke received a B.A. (1953) and an M.A. (1955)
in Art from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been
making pottery since the mid-nineteen-seventies. Her work is primarily
functional stoneware, however, she sets aside time to experiment
in other areas. Her work has won numerous awards and has been in
international juried shows including the Sidney Myer Fund International
Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art Gallery, Australia, 2004.
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| Connie Glover
(Canada)
Working for over thirty years, Connie Glover studied
ceramics at Douglas College, Surrey, B.C., Laguna Beach School of
Art, California and has recently completed a residency at the Banff
Center in Alberta. Her work involves large-scale public art projects,
such as, “Rising Tide”, a 350 sq. ft. ceramic tile mural
and “Octopus’s Garden”, a 33 ft. long relief ceramic
tile bench, both in Richmond, B.C. She is now beginning a community
arts project in Whalley Town Centre that will involve the creation
of a 300 sq. ft. mosaic tile pathway.
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| Cathi Jefferson
(Canada)
In 1974, Cathi Jefferson began her study in clay with Herman Venema.
She has taken numerous courses and been a part of residencies at
Watershed, Maine, The Archie Bray Foundation, Montana, and The Banff
Centre in Alberta. Her work is mostly wheel-thrown and altered functional,
salt-fired stoneware and larger salt or wood-fired sculptural pieces
influenced by the natural west coast environment.
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