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New Ceramics, June 2021 Sloan
In 2020 Heidi McKenzie invited me to write an article about her recent work that uses familial photographs on ceramic forms, concerned with system racism and colonial attitudes encountered in Canada. The German magazine New Ceramics is publishing it in June 2021.

Seasalt, Lizards and Clay Foreword by Debra Sloan
I was honoured when Santo Mignosa asked if I would write the Foreword for his 2020 autobiography, Seasalt, Lizards and Clay.

Interlinked Themes, Multiple Meanings – the Oeuvre of the Canadian Ceramist, Debra Sloan by Ronnie Watt, Ceramics of Southern Africa, Vol. 16.1 Winter

was a project initiated by the Craft Council of BC engaging the Joe Ink Dance Company of Vancouver to create a video of craft and dance collaborations. Joe worked with textile, ceramic and metal artists.
VIDEO: Dance Craft Interpretations and Connections2
The videos were presented to the Canadian Craft Biennial in Toronto in 2017. https://joeink.ca/project/dance-craft/

Collection at Museum of Anthropology Vancouver, BC.
Soundtrack of talk at the Vancouver Public Library, May, 2019

In August 2017 an interested curator, after reading my essay on Kakinuma, visited a substantial Kakinuma collection held by a private Vancouver collector. He went on to encourage Darrin Morrison of the West Vancouver Museum to mount an exhibition of Kakinuma;s work, based on this collection. There was a 4 week space available in January 2018 and the exhibition, The Art Of Thomas Kakinuma, went ahead. We contacted everyone we knew for additional Kakinuma pieces, and met up with the Kakinuma’s. The exhibit was a great success, attracting interest all across the country. The large opening was attended by Mrs Kakinuma and her daughter. It was the first retrospective of Kakinuma’s work, and his first exhibition since 1969. I rewrote much of my original essay, with new information provided by Mrs Kakinuma, and I also wrote for the beautiful catalogue, phots by Ken Mayer. The West Vancouver Museum now holds an archive for Thomas Kakinuma. https://studioceramicscanada.com/thomas-kakinuma-1908-1982/

Article, Thomas Kakinuma. 2018, West Vancouver Museum exhibition

The Role of Equestrian Ridge Tiles as Historical Narrative, by Debra Sloan and Peter Smith.
Up on the Roof explores traditional equestrian clay ridge tiles that from the middle ages adorned rooflines in Britain and Europe. The practice died out by the early 1800s in the UK and now those last and rare remnants are found mainly in West Country museums. Up on the Roof recounts how Bernard Leach and fellow members of the Old Cornwall Society revived the rendition in the 1920s. love the last decades memories faded once again, until, in 2014, the Leach Pottery instigated research and response. The effect of the tiles, architectural adornment, clarifies the role of art in the public realm, where it install interaction and engage

by Debra Sloan and Peter Smith
This is an in-depth look at traditional equestrian clay ridge tiles that from the middle ages used to adorn rooflines in England and Northern Europe. The practice had died out by the early 1800s, and the last remnants are found only in museums in the West Country. Up on the Roof recounts how, Bernard Leach and members of the Old Cornwall Society, reintroduced the tradition during the first half of the 20th century. Their tiles, some of which are still on roofs in St. Ives, have received little attention for the last eighty years, and once again the tradition was in danger of being lost. https://www.mansfieldceramics.com/cap-articles/bernard-leachs-equestrian-roof-tiles-and-their-location-within-west-counrty-traditions/
Books can be purchased at http://www.blurb.ca/books/7928210-up-on-the-roof

Modernist potter 1950s – 1980.
GUEST WRITER – Studio Ceramics Canada 2016. Photo courtesy of UBC Rare Books Archives.

by Glenn Lewis, Phyllis Schwartz and Debra Sloan

Published at ceramicsnow.org
By Debra Sloan

The International Ceramics Studio in Kecskémet, Hungary
CeramicsTECHNICAL, No. 31, 2010
By Debra Sloan

Seeking the Nuance
by Glenn Lewis, project co-ordinator and designer,
Phyllis Schwartz, and editor Debra Sloan.
Published by the Potters Guild of BC, 2009
ISBN 098-0-9696077-1-7

Debra Sloan creates life-size dogs
CeramicsTECHNICAL, No. 27, 2008
By Debra Sloan

Perception of Craft/Design/Fine Art
MAGazine. Metal Arts Guild of Canada, Vol 20 (1), 2005
By Debra Sloan

The First Fifty Years – 1955-2005
Fusion Magazine, Volume #29 #3 2005
Written and submitted by Heather Cairns and Debra Sloan

The First Fifty Years of the BC Potters Guild 1955 – 2005
August 2005
By Debra Sloan

Photo Essay on Haney Clay