Event Profile

Organization: ESPLANADE ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE Location: Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre Phone: 403.502.8580 Website: Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre Event Dates:  

• SAT, JUN 1912:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, JUN 2012:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, JUN 2110:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, JUN 2210:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, JUN 2310:00:am to 5:00:pm
• THU, JUN 2410:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, JUN 2510:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, JUN 2612:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, JUN 2712:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, JUN 2810:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, JUN 2910:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, JUN 3010:00:am to 5:00:pm

• THU, JUL 0110:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, JUL 0210:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, JUL 0312:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, JUL 0412:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, JUL 0510:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, JUL 0610:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, JUL 0710:00:am to 5:00:pm
• THU, JUL 0810:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, JUL 0910:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, JUL 1012:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, JUL 1112:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, JUL 1210:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, JUL 1310:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, JUL 1410:00:am to 5:00:pm
• THU, JUL 1510:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, JUL 1610:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, JUL 1712:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, JUL 1812:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, JUL 1910:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, JUL 2010:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, JUL 2110:00:am to 5:00:pm
• THU, JUL 2210:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, JUL 2310:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, JUL 2412:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, JUL 2512:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, JUL 2610:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, JUL 2710:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, JUL 2810:00:am to 5:00:pm
• THU, JUL 2910:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, JUL 3010:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, JUL 3112:00:pm to 5:00:pm

• SUN, AUG 0112:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• MON, AUG 0210:00:am to 5:00:pm
• TUE, AUG 0310:00:am to 5:00:pm
• WED, AUG 0410:00:am to 5:00:pm
• THU, AUG 0510:00:am to 5:00:pm
• FRI, AUG 0610:00:am to 5:00:pm
• SAT, AUG 0712:00:pm to 5:00:pm
• SUN, AUG 0812:00:pm to 5:00:pm

Description:  

FOLMER HANSEN & DAVID ROSS: A Way with Clay. An historic exhibition which presents a range of works by two of Saskatchewan's earliest potters.

Folmer Hansen was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark and met David Ross, originally from Winnipeg, in the early 1950s when Ross travelled there to further his ceramic studies. Hanson moved to Canada in 1958, and found David Ross teaching ceramics in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. Together they set up their studio in the former Saskatchewan Arts Board’s Craft House in 1961.

 

Heather Smith, Curator at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery says, “What Folmer Hansen and David Ross did was break new ground. They gathered together and educated an audience for locally-made ceramic objects for their homes. They were developing clay bodies and glazes out of what was locally available and yet they were also in tune with the international ideas surrounding craft and art.  They were the first professional crafts people to make modern functional ceramic objects in Saskatchewan, and it is a testament to their skill as artists that this work still so looks so well-designed, quietly-innovative and beautifully-formed.”

                                                                                                                                        

This exhibition was organized by the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery in conjunction with the Esplanade Art Gallery’s Luke Lindoe: Clay Pioneer.