Sally Michener is an artist, educator and long-term Board member based in West Vancouver. She holds a MSW from Columbia University in New York City and an MFA from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. She immigrated to Canada in 1973 and taught at the Vancouver School of Art/Emily Carr University for twenty-five years. Her studio practice consists primarily of ceramic sculpture and installation-based works, which have been exhibited across Canada as well as abroad in Japan, China, the USA, Mexico and Europe. About her work, the artist states “The human body and the column are basic subjects in my work. I continue to be interested in formal, abstract composition, function and aesthetics.” Sally has received numerous Canada Council grants and awards and is a member of RCA. She has participated in ceramic residencies in Canada, Mexico and China. In 2007, she was one of ten Canadians invited to participate in a month-long residency and to create work for an international ceramic museum in Fuping, China, and, in 2009, she created a garden installation at the Burlington Art Centre in Ontario. Sally served on the Board from its inception in 1993 until 2015. For more information, please see the website of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art