THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ARTS
The Canadian Society of Decorative Arts/ Cercle canadien des arts décoratifs was formed, with the generous support of the Macdonald Stewart Foundation, to provide a forum for all those interested in the decorative arts.
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29th Annual Symposium and Annual General Meeting |
Speakers
Antoine Predock Architect PC, Albuquerque,
NM — Architect of record for Canada’s newest
national museum, the Canadian Museum for
Human Rights. Antoine Predock’s designs
express in architecture the fundamental
commonality of humankind in a unifying and
timeless landmark for all nations and cultures of
the world.
Dr. Katherine Pettipas — Recently retired after
35 years as the Manitoba Museum’s Curator of
Native Ethnology and of the Hudson’s Bay
Company Museum Collection, Dr. Pettipas
specialized in Aboriginal/Euro-Canadian contact
history and was awarded the Canadian Museums
Association’s Award of Distinguished Service in
April 2011.
Sherry Farell Racette — Sherry Farrell Racette
(Timiskaming First Nation/Irish) is an
interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts
practice in painting, textiles and illustration.
She was the 2009-2010 Anne Ray Fellow at the
School for Advanced Research, Santa Fé, New
Mexico and is currently teaching at the
University of Manitoba in the Departments of
Native Studies and Women and Gender.
Helen Delacretaz — Chief Curator of the
Winnipeg Art Gallery since 2008, where she
specializes in contemporary craft and historical
decorative arts. Helen also teaches Islamic,
Hindu and Buddhist art at the University of
Winnipeg.
Sophia Kachor — Sophia Kachor is the executive
director and chief of collections of Oseredok
Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre in
Winnipeg where she has curated numerous
exhibitions related to the Ukrainian experience
in Canada. She has also been a sessional
instructor for Ukrainian Canadian folklore and
other Ukrainian language and literature courses
at the University of Manitoba.
Frank Albo — Dubbed “Canada’s Dan Brown,”
Frank Albo is a PhD candidate in the History of
Art at the University of Cambridge, where he
specializes in the influence of Freemasonry in
19th century architectural theory and
historiography. His groundbreaking discoveries
on the Masonic symbolism in the Manitoba
Legislative Building have been featured in
numerous articles, radio, and television
programs.
Ione Thorkelsson — Recipient of the 2010
Governor General’s Award, Saidye Bronfman
Award for Excellence in Fine Craft, Ione
Thorkelsson is recognized for her significant
contribution to studio glass in Manitoba and
Canada. Her work is distinctive, conceptually
fresh, and technically brilliant within the scope
of Canadian practice.
Warren Carther — Warren Carther is recognized
internationally for his architectural glass
commissions. Understanding and exploiting the
structural qualities of glass has allowed him to
create works of unique form and immense scale.
Commissions include the carved glass walls at
the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and the Charles
de Gaulle Airport, Paris and the nine glass
towers located at Anchorage International
Airport in Alaska.
Tim Worth — Prior to retiring in 2005, Tim Worth
was the curator of Dalnavert Museum. In addition
to co-authoring a manuscript on early Manitoba
furniture with Rick Lair, he also authored a
research article, “Hudson’s Bay Company Branding
Irons”, which was published in the Museum of the
Fur Trade Quarterly.
Rick Lair — Rick Lair studied furniture design at
Sheridan College School of Design. He has made
furniture, wooden accessory items and stringed
musical instruments. His work is in collections
throughout Canada. Since 1988 Rick has been
senior furniture conservator for Parks Canada at
the Western Canada Service Centre.
Alan Lacovetsky — A master at wood-firing,
Alan Lacovetsky constructed a wood fire kiln on
his property just north of Winnipeg. Alan has
taught extensively in Manitoba, as well as
Thailand and Australia. He has just returned
from being Artist in Residence at Fuping Pottery
Village, in Fuping, Shanxxi, China in 2010.
