PJ Anderson
The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce their next Speakers Series Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 2PM PST featuring Winnipeg artist PJ Anderson. The presentation is free and open to all. It will take place over Zoom, and registration is required. Please see here or below for information about how to register.
PJ Anderson is a Caribbean-Canadian/Red River Métis artist from Thompson, Manitoba. A recent MFA graduate from the University of Manitoba and former NCECA Director-at-Large, Anderson has shown internationally as a Resident Artist at the University of KwaZula Natal in South Africa; in China as a finalist in the International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association (ICMEA) Emerging Artist competition; in the United States, and across Canada. She has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Studio Magazine, and she has appeared in several books and articles including “Craft is Political,” by Heidi McKenzie; Experience Clay, by Maureen MacKay; and The Complete Guide to Low-Fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors by Ben Carter. She currently serves as NCECA’s Director of Programming 2024 -2026 and is part of the Organizational team of the Color Network.
Glorification 2018, Earthenware, coiled paper, glaze.
In her talk “Unconventional Weaponizations,” Anderson will discuss the importance of traditional and intergenerational cultural ceramic learning in addition to academic learning. She will share her continued exploration and fabrication of objects that reference everyday weaponizations from a non-narrative future scape. Her work challenges what we choose to value. She questions what parts of ourselves, our histories, and are futures are seen as threatening, dangerous, and undecipherable to others and to ourselves.
Please join us for this exciting and important talk by PJ Anderson. The talk will take place on Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 2pm PST. All are welcome, but registering is required. To register, please see here. We look forward to seeing you there!
For more on PJ Anderson, please see her website here.
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