MAY 23, 2024 – JUNE 2, 2024
At the Gardiner Museum
Toronto, Ontario
Featuring work by:
Jacqueline Bishop
Peter Pincus
Linda Sikora
ABOUT THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART FAIR
& Symposium
The International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF) is a 10-day celebration of some of the most compelling recent ceramic art, featuring works by emerging and established artists from a wide range of backgrounds, as well as online and in-person programming by artists and curators.
ICAF 2024 focuses on the theme of gathering to explore ways in which artworks, and clay as a medium, can bring us together to create common ground. Amid political, religious, ethnic, class, and cultural divides, gathering enables us to focus on how we are united in our humanity, highlighting shared experiences and needs. Gathering encourages listening, as we share space within the action of coming together. To gather is also to collect our resources, both internal and external, for healing and survival. We gather with emotional and spiritual intention, honouring our full capacities as beings to face the challenges and opportunities we encounter. ICAF 2024 highlights Canadian and international artists who engage clay as a medium for coming together to reassert our shared bonds with each other and the earth.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
& FEATURED WORK
Many artists are reconsidering how we define ourselves as a species and how these changing definitions can alter our relationships to each other, to other animals and life forms, and to the land we inhabit. The separation of the human and non-human is increasingly understood as porous or insignificant. Clay can be seen as a mediator between the human and non-human, blurring the boundaries with its life-giving properties, its capacity to record and hold human memory, its characteristic of absorption, and its capacity to connect us to the land.
How can we re-orient our relationship to the planet through a more nuanced understanding of our connection to other forms of life? How can emerging discourses of the human shift us toward new and generative understandings of our bodies place in the world?
Join us to view the works at ICAF and participate in the accompanying programs to explore these and other questions. Sponsored by the Raphael Yu Centre for Candaian Ceramics, Toward Future Bodies aims to foster a deeper appreciation for Canadian ceramics within a larger artistic ecosystem.
b. 1971, Kingston, Jamaica
lives and works in New York, NY
additional images coming soon
b. 1982 Rochester, NY,
lives and works in Penfield, NY
b. 1960, Saskatoon, Canada
lives and works in Alfred, NY
PROGRAMMING
Full event schedule for ICAF 2024 coming soon
PREVIEW GALA
Wednesday May 22, 7 – 10 pm
Be among the first to view and purchase exceptional ceramic works from leading galleries and artists at the International Ceramics Art Fair’s exclusive Preview Gala. Proceeds from this fundraising event support the Gardiner Museum’s Community Access Fund, making clay programs more widely available to communities with limited access to arts education.
Dress: Cocktail attire
If you require any accommodations to ensure your participation, please inform us in advance.
*Charitable tax receipt issued post-event for the maximum allowable amount.
Single ticket: $250
Package of 10: $2,000
Young Patron Circle: $200
By Phone: 416.408.5051