Craft Council of BC hosts Art of Craft Speaker Series event with keynote speaker Lou Lynn, October 17

Council’s 50th-anniversary celebration to feature additional presentations from Ilana Fonariov, Carol E. Mayer, and Hope Forstenzer

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Lou Lynn. Photo by Janet Dwyer

The Craft Council of BC presents the return of the Art of Craft Speaker Series, held in celebration of the council’s 50th anniversary with keynote speaker Lou Lynn, on October 17 at 7 pm at the ANNEX.

B.C. glass artist Lynn, winner of the 2021 Saidye Bronfman Award, is presenting a retrospective talk as a glass artist and long-time member of the Craft Council of BC. Additional presentations will be featured from Craft Council of BC award-winners Ilana Fonariov, Carol E. Mayer, and Hope Forstenzer.

Lynn continuously explores the archaeology of daily life through form and material. She creates contemporary items that have an implied reference to once-familiar tools, utensils, and functional objects, but that leave the question of purpose hanging in the air. Lynn ponders the sculptural qualities of hand tools, then re-interprets design and scale, which results in objects that offer impractical solutions for imagined tasks. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and can be found in numerous public collections.

Fonariov, a self-taught Galiano Island-based potter drawn to the drama and starkness of black clay, is hosting a presentation of her work with the School of Arts at Selkirk College in Nelson, B.C. She is the 2022 recipient of the Micki MacKenzie Educational Craft Bursary, and will be unveiling the finished artwork for the MacKenzie Collection at the event.

Mayer has been a ceramics advocate and supporter for over 35 years, since starting research at the Koerner Gallery of Ceramics. While not a potter herself, Mayer’s support and respect for the value of local ceramics, paired with her vast experience in ceramics curation, research, and publication, add up to her winning this year’s Citizen of Craft award.

Forstenzer is a B.C.-based glass artist who builds on the rich history of glassmaking, interpreting it through her own lens to see where it interconnects with the modern world. This year’s winner of the $1,000 Grace Cameron Rogers scholarship, she pairs blown glass and stained glass techniques to create new perspectives on emotional states. 

More information and tickets to the speaker series event are available here.

Post sponsored by Craft Council of BC.

Tracing Wheel by Lou Lynn. Photo by Janet Dwyer