The North West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce their next Speakers Series on Sunday, November 24, at 1 PM ...

The North West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce their next Speakers Series Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 2PM PST ...

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce their next Speakers Series Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 1pm PST featuring Kate Metten and ...

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce its next presentation on Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 1pm, featuring Nova ...

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to start 2024 with our next Speakers Series panel Sunday, January 28, 2024, at 1pm, featuring Bryan ...

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce a talk sponsored in collaboration with Inform Interiors. Part of the Canadian Society ...

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce their next Speakers Series Event, a panel presentation on Zoom, Sunday, April ...

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce that their next speaker, David Lloyd, will be presenting via Zoom on ...

After a more than two-year hiatus due to Covid, the North-West Ceramics Foundation is thrilled to finally be able to present Martina Lantin as their featured speaker. Martina will present via Zoom on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at 1pm PST. The presentation is free and open to all, but registration is required. Please see below for information about how to register ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce its next IN-PERSON Speakers Series will feature Nanaimo Art Gallery Curator Jesse Birch. The talk will be held at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC) on Sunday, November 13, at 1pm, in Studio 103. The presentation is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please see below for instructions for registering ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Russell Hackney as their next speaker at a free public lecture Sunday, June 12, at 2 pm. The lecture will be held in Studio 103 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC). This marks a return to in-person presentations, and Covid restrictions in place at the time will be respected. All are welcome and encouraged to attend, but registration is required. Please see below for instructions as to how to register ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce that their next speaker, Robin DuPont, will be presenting via Zoom on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 2pm Pacific Standard Time. The NWCF Speaker Series is free and open to all. All are welcome, but registration is required. Please see here or below to register for this exciting talk ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to present our next installment in our free, public Speaker Series. Unfortunately, conditions do not yet allow us to meet in person, but, like millions of others, we have been mastering the art of Zoom. We will present our next speaker, Dr. Ronnie Watt, via that platform on Sunday, February 27, 2022, at 11 am, Pacific Time. This daytime presentation will allow interested parties from Europe and Africa to attend. All are welcome, but registration is required. Please see here or below to register for this exciting talk ... Read More

After a nearly two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the North-West Ceramics Foundation is thrilled to be able again to present our free, public Speaker Series. Unfortunately, conditions do not yet allow us to meet in person, but, like millions of others, we have been mastering the art of Zoom, and are pleased to be bringing our next speaker, Samantha Dickie, to you via that platform. Samantha Dickie will be presenting on her work on Thursday, November 25, at 7:30 pm. All are welcome, but registration is required. Please see here or below to register for this exciting talk ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Teresa Sudeyko and Amy Nugent as their next speakers at a free public lecture “Artists, Executors, Institutions and Thieves: Why you want to keep your collection organized” on Sunday, February 23, 2020, at 2 pm, in Room 102 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC). The presentation is free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register with the Shadbolt. Please see below for instructions ... Read More

In collaboration with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, the North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Michael Kline as their next speaker at a free public lecture Friday, April 5, 2019. The lecture will be held in the Discovery Room at the Burnaby Village Museum, 6501 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby, from 7 to 8 pm. The talk is free and open to the public, but as space is limited, registering is highly recommended ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Carol E. Mayer as their next speaker at a free public lecture Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Studio 103 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC). The lecture is presented in collaboration with Crafted Vancouver. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Sasha Wardell as their next speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, October 24, 2019, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in the Rennie Theatre, room B2160, at Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Trudy Golley as their next speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, November 7, 2019, at 7:30 pm, in Room 103, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Heather Dahl as their next speaker at a free public lecture Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in the Rennie Theatre, room B2160, at Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Jennifer Ling Datchuk as their next speaker at a free public lecture Sunday, September 23, 2018, at 2pm. The lecture will be held in Studio 103 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC) and will be followed by a small reception. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Helen Walsh as their next speaker at a free public lecture Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Studio 211 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation in collaboration with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Culture Days is pleased to announce Nora Vaillant as their next speaker at a free public lecture Friday, September 29, 2017, at 7:00 pm. The lecture will be held in the Studio Theatre at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Tam Irving, as featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, Feb.25, 2016, at 7:30 pm. The presentation will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Allan Collier as featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 7:30 pm. The presentation will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North–West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Sally Michener as their featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, October 20, 2016, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design at 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North–West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Alwyn O’Brien as their featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, November 17, 2016, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design at 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Sadashi Inuzuka, as featured speaker at a free public lecture Tuesday, Nov.2, 2015, at 7:30 pm. The presentation will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce four BC Ceramic artists, Robin Dupont, Sarah Lawless, Kathleen Raven and Brendan Tang, as featured speakers at a free public lecture Friday, March 20, 2015, at 7:30 pm. The presentation will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

Dear Human projects offer an alternative perception to overlooked everyday landscapes by revealing the hidden potential of places and objects, hoping to inspire consciousness and curiosity. The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O’Connell/​Dear Human as their next featured speakers on Thursday, February 19, 2015. The lecture will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver), at 7:30 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public, and all are welcome to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Paul Mathieu as their next featured speaker on Thursday, October 23, 2014. The lecture will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver), at 7:30 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public, and all are welcome to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce internationally acclaimed potter Bruce Cochrane as their next featured speaker on Thursday, September 18, 2014. The lecture will be held in Room 105 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby), at 7:30 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public, and all are welcome to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Robin DuPont as its featured speaker at a free public lecture Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Rory MacDonald as its featured speaker at a free public lecture entitled Public Craft, Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Gail Nichols as its featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, March 6, 2014, at 7:00 pm. The lecture is organized is cooperation with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and will be held in Room 103. The Shadbolt Centre is located at 6450 Deer Lake Avenue in Burnaby. All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to present a talk by Quebec ceramist Gilbert Poissant, "Forty Years of Practice: From Object to Mural." The lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30 pm, in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

​The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to present a Curators' talk by Nora Vaillant and Shelly Rosenblum to accompany the exhibition HIGH FIRE CULTURE: Locating Leach/Hamada in West Coast Studio Pottery. The exhibition will take place at the Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor, Vancouver, BC, from May 24 to July 16, 2013. The Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, May 23, from 6 to 9 pm. The Curators' Talk will take place on Saturday, May 25, at 4pm ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Ying-Yueh Chuang as their featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, November 29, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce the Australian ceramic artist Gwyn Hanssen Pigott as their featured speaker at a public lecture, free with museum admission, Saturday, November 3, 2012, 1:00 pm to 3 pm ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Jae Won Lee as their featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, October 18, 2012, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245 in the North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend. "Noticing things is crucial to making art: things about ourselves, problems, and challenges. Making art allows us to declare who we are." Jae Won Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She absorbed a love of Korean culture ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Alexandra Lambley as their featured speaker on ​Friday, April 27, 2012. The lecture will take place in Room 105 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Avenue Burnaby, BC. Note, this is a different location for our lecture series talks. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Alexandra Lambley, a PhD student at University College Falmouth, Cornwall, and Research Fellow at The Leach Pottery, St. Ives, is currently carrying out research in Vancouver and its environs regarding British Columbia's Studio Pottery past and present. The material gathered will be ... Read More

​The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Jim Robison as their featured public speaker on Friday, March 23, 2012. The lecture will take place at 7pm in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

"A story of confected landscapes, their travels through media, material, cultures and Geographies" The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to present Paul Scott as their featured speaker Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

​The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to be sponsoring a special panel discussion on the exhibition and subsequent catalogue Thrown: British Columbia's Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries recently published by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery of the University of British Columbia. The panel will take place on Friday, September 9, 2011, at 7:30 in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Thrown was reviewed by long-time PGBC member Keith Rice-Jones in the August Potters Guild of British Columbia ... Read More

The North-West Ceramic Foundation is pleased to announce Mariko Paterson McCrae as its featured speaker at a free public lecture Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 7:15 pm. The lecture will take place in Room 291, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Thomas Aitken and Kate Hyde as their featured speakers at a free public lecture Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at 7:00 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome and encouraged to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Julie York as their featured speaker at a free public lecture Wednesday, October 13, 2010, at 7:00 pm. The lecture will be held in the IDS Motion Capture Studio, North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome to attend ... Read More

"Transition and Cross-Pollinating: Investigating Ceramics and Other Materials" The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Eliza Au as their their featured speaker at a free public lecture January 28, 2010 at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245 North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome to attend ... Read More

The North-West Ceramics Foundation is pleased to announce Katrina Chaytor as their featured speaker at a free public lecture November 12, 2009, at 7:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Room 245 North Building of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver). All are welcome to attend ... Read More