Debra Sloan attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design, graduating with honours in 1982. She attained her BFA from ECUAD in 2004. She has exhibited, taught, adjudicated and served on all the regional craft Boards including the NWCF Board, which she joined in 2007 and became President in 2018. Since 2005 she has been creating  a BC ceramics archive, collaborating with Craft Council of BC (CCBC), and Allan Collier, to develope a digital BC Ceramics Marks Registry (BCCMR). She has published in Ceramics Art and Perception, Technical, Fusion, Studio Ceramics Canada, New Ceramics, and Ceramics Now. Her work has been exhibited  awarded and collected  nationally and internationally, and is in six LARK 500 books. In 2015, she received the CCBC ‘s Hilda Gerson Award, and was Honouree for the Mayor’s ARTS Award [Vancouver] for Craft and Design. She attends international residencies, and awarded a Canada Council for the Arts, for a 2019 residency, Shigaraki, Japan. In 2025, she published a biographies on BC artists, Bill Rennie and Thomas Kakinuma, was recorded in the oral history of the Leach Pottery, included in the Crafts and Craftivism e-book on Canadian craft artists, Concordia University, and included in the CONNECT ONLINE – Fusion exhibition. She wrote an article for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s publication, The Place of Objects, and her work included  in their Written in Clay exhibition.  Working mainly as a figurative artist, she is the first sculptor to have ventured in the sculptor/commentary direction, as 2014 Artist-in-Residence, at the Leach Pottery in its 106-year history. Her work can be viewed at www.debrasloan.com