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This is an archived event from Culture Days 2021.

Ivy Knight: Jugs & Cans: A Reaping

In-person

Craft Pottery & ceramics Visual arts
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Date and time

This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.

Location

Art Gallery of Burlington - Lakeshore Gallery

1333 Lakeshore Road

Burlington, ON

Access

Free.

Offered in English.

Wheelchair accessible.

About

Art Gallery of Burlington - Lakeshore Gallery

Sept. 24 through Oct. 24

Tuesday - Friday: Noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

This exhibition is a collection of over 150 empty vessels; jugs, cans, bottles, and boxes, collected from women in food across Canada and the United States. In gathering the containers Ivy collects the stories and struggles of the cooks, bakers, food writers, restaurateurs, and servers who opened, emptied, and used them. She then lovingly enrobes them in crocheted vestments to hold the donor’s voiced realities in a brightly coloured, protective shield of craft.

How to Read a Vessel has been generously supported by: Susan Busby, Louise Cooke, Jane Depraitere, Pam Lavery and Robert Redhead, and the Schreibers, Four Corners Group, Danyliw & Mann.

Image Credit: Stacy Newman.

Organizer

Art Gallery of Burlington

The Art Gallery of Burlington is Burlington’s public art gallery and community centre. We are a place of intersection where creators, cultures and communities meet and share in the wealth of human creativity.

The Art Gallery of Burlington aspires to free minds and feed spirits by supporting, sharing, and influencing the visual culture of our times.

We are a team of thirty employees who work with almost five hundred volunteers in service to our communities, to visual culture, and to future generations.

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