CATHI JEFFERSON

Born:  December 25th, 1953, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Education

2019   Residency ‘The Sculpture Factory’, Jingdezhen, China

2014Fully funded residency Watson Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia

2014Residency SODA, Perth, Australia

2013Awarded fully funded residency collaboration Cowichan Valley Arts Council & ‘OAIR’ Tokyo, Japan

2013Residency ‘The Pottery Factory’, Jingdezhen, China

2012  Residency Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics,

          Medalta, Medicine Hat, Alberta

2010  Residency Sanbao Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China

2007  Residency Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

2006  Residency Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta

2005  Awarded Canada Council Grant

2004  The Proyecto Arte Del Fuego’s Cuban Ceramic Art Collective, Resident

          Artist, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC

2002  Participant ‘Aormori International Wood fire Festival 2002’, Aormori, Japan

2000  Residency Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta

1997  Awarded the Tucker Pottery Supply/Pottery Supply House fully funded 

           residency at Watershed, Newcastle, Maine

1996  Awarded Canada Council Grant for a Residency, Archie Bray

           Foundation, Helena, Montana

1993  Accepted participant IWCAT (International Workshop for Ceramic Art in

           Tokoname) Tokoname, Japan

1992  ‘Ceramics’, Jeff Oestreich, Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver

1991  ‘Form and Function’, Jeff Oestreich, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta

1986-88  Fine Arts, Fraser Valley College, Abbotsford, BC

1980-81  Fine Arts, Kwantlen College, Surrey, BC

1974-90  Initial clay courses/studio with mentor Herman Venema, Matsqui, BC

Professional Experience

Present – 2014 Co-founder, Director, ongoing Instructor Clay Hub, Duncan, BC

2018Demo Workshop, Art League, Alexandria, Virginia

2018Juror ‘Table Top’ Exhibition, Alexandria, Virginia

2018Demo Workshop, Albert Community Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

2017Soda Firing Credit Course Hood College, Frederick, Maryland

2017Hands-on Throwing Workshop, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, Washington

2016Studio Salt Firing Workshop with Chris Weaver, Duncan, BC

20165-day Hands-on ‘Tea Set’ Workshop, Pinecroft Centre for the Arts, Aylmer,

Ontario

2016Demo Workshop, Parkgate Community Centre, North Vancouver, BC

2016‘Form’ 2 hour Lecture, Island Woodturners Guild, Victoria, BC

2016Soda Firing Hands-on Workshop, Prince George, BC

2016/12/11/9/6/5 Red Deer College ‘Series’, 1 wk. Hands-on Workshops, Red

Deer, Alberta

2015Salt Firing Workshop, Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts

(MISSA), Victoria, BC

2015Hands-on/Demonstration Workshop, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan

2015Hands-on Weekend Workshop, Yellowknife, Yukon

2014 – 2008  Instructor, ‘Ceramics 303 A&B’, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

2014Hand-building Weekend Workshop, Ft. St. John, BC

2014Weekend Demo Workshops:  Matsqui, BC; North Mount Pleasant,

Calgary, Alberta; Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario

2013Hands-on/ Demonstration Workshop, ‘The Flipside of Bowls’, Metchosin International School of the Arts (MISSA), Victoria, BC

2011  2-day Demonstration / Hands-on Workshop, Tucson, Arizona

2011  5-day Soda Firing Clay Workshop, Western New Mexico University, Silver

City, New Mexico

2011  5-day Hands-on Workshop, ‘Put A Lid On It’, Places des Arts, Coquitlam,

BC

2011  Hands-on / Demonstration Workshops:  Salt Spring Island; North Island

College, Comox; Kwantlen College, Surrey, BC

2011  Studio Salt Firing Workshop with Fraser Valley Potters Guild, Duncan, BC

2010  11- day Hands-on Salt and Soda Firing Workshop, Shaw International

Center for Contemporary Ceramics, Medalta, Medicine Hat, Alberta

2010  Workshop Demonstration Nepean Art Centre, Ottawa, Tucker’s Clay

Supply, Richmond Hill, Ontario

2009  Hands-on / Demonstration Workshops, Terrace and Quesnel, BC

2008  Workshop Demonstration, New Brunswick  Collage of Craft and Design,

          Fredericton, New Brunswick

2008  Workshop Demonstration, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

          (NSCAD), Halifax, Nova Scotia

2008  Key note speaker, Masters Series 2008, Parksville, BC

2008  Workshop Demonstration, Cedar Lakes Conference Centre, Ripley, West

          Virginia

2008  Hands-on/Demonstration Workshop, ‘Altering and Connecting…’,

Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario

2007  Presenter, 4th Pun Choung Festival of Kyeryong Mountain, Korea

2006  Co-instructor with Laura Way Lay Laq ‘Atmospheric Firings’, Emily Carr

University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

2006  ‘Functional Ceramics’ Workshop Demonstration, Wooster, Ohio

2005  ‘Fusion’ Workshop Demonstration, The Ontario Clay and Glass Assoc.,

Waterloo, Ontario

2005/99  1 week Instructor/ Demonstrator KSA (Kootenay School of Art),

Nelson, BC

2003  Presenter, Kelowna Clay Festival, Kelowna, BC

2003  Co-workshop Instructor, Colorado State University, Pueblo, Colorado 

2002 Salt-Firing / Hands-on Workshop Instructor, Bird Creek, Alaska

2002 Co-Instructor, Medalta 4-week Residency Program, Medicine Hat, Alberta

2001  Presenter, 1000 Miles Apart Conference, Alberta College of Art, Calgary

2001  Salt/Soda Kiln Firing Workshop, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland

2001  Workshop Instructor, University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio

2000  Workshop Instructor, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in conjunction

with Potters’  Guild of B.C., Vancouver, BC

1999 Presenter, International Potters Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales

Exhibitions / Selected Awards

2019   ‘Fired Up! Monumental’, Circle Craft Gallery, Vancouver

2018Solo exhibition ‘Beauty in Nature’, Schaller Gallery, Saint Joseph, MI

2018‘Making Matters:  Fresh Perspectives in Fine Craft’, Peters Valley Gallery,

Layton, NJ

2018‘Vessels for Flowers’, Black & Smith Country General, Ancaster, ON

2017‘Fractal Nature:  Works Exploring the Theory of Chaos’, NCECA, Skutt

Kiln Warehouse Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2017‘The Art of Kiln’n It’, Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith, BC

2016Cone Box Show Purchase Award, Baldwin City, Kansas

2016 ‘TEA I’, ‘Form II’; ‘Beautifully Brown’; ‘Painterly’, Schaller Gallery, Saint

Joseph, MI

2016Salt Spring Island Ceramics Awards, Ganges, BC

2016Sooke Fine Arts Show, Honorable Mention, Sooke, BC

2016/15/14/13‘Steinzeugkrug:  Present Day Interpretations I & II Claymakers,

Durham, North Carolina

2015‘Design in Canada’ Outstanding Achievement from BC, Canada House

Gallery, London, England

2015‘Mud, Hands, Fire, Wheel Thrown – The Legacy of Canadian Studio

Pottery’, School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

2015’30 Years’, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC

2015‘Post China:  A Ceramic Journey’, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA

2015‘Serviceability’, College of Lake Country, Grayslake, Illinois

2014‘Fired Up! 30th Anniversary Show, Jonathon’s, London, Ontario; Gallery of

BC Ceramics, Vancouver, BC; Potter’s Place, Courtenay, BC

2014‘The Cup II’, Robert T. Wright Gallery, Grayslake, Illinois

2013‘A New Attitude Excavated’, Paros Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013‘Roses are Red, Pots are Brown’, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville,

Tennessee

2013Circle Craft’s Pendulum Gallery Show, Vancouver, BC

2013‘OutPour’, Robert T. Wright Gallery, Grayslake, Illinois

2012  ‘Fireworks’ Works by selected Carter Wosk BC Creative Achievement

           Award Recipients, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC

2012  ‘Celebrate the Salish Sea’, Fraker Scott Gallery, NCECA, Seattle,

           Washington

2012  Award Winner Contemporary 3-D, Cowichan Valley Arts Council annual

           juried show, Duncan, BC

2012  Cowichan Valley Arts Council Award Winners Show, Portals, Duncan, BC

2012  ‘Table Salt’, Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver, BC

2012  Brucker’s Ceramics Purchase Award, 2012 International Orton Cone Box

          Show, Baldwin City, Kansas

2011  ’30 x 5 Invitational Show’, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa

2011  ‘Matter of Clay III’, Jonathon Bancroft Snell Gallery, London, Ontario

2011  Solo exhibition, The Potters Place, Courtenay, BC

2010  Awarded Carter Wosk BC Creative Achievement Award for Applied Art

and Design

2010   Solo Installation ‘Reflecting Nature:  Reflecting Spirit’, Cowichan Valley

Arts Council (CVAC) Gallery, Duncan, BC

2010  ‘Northeners’, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa

2010  ‘Integration’ with fine furniture markers Sandra Carr and Joe Gelinas,

Circle Craft Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2010  ‘Flora’, Schaller Gallery, Red Lodge, Montana

2010  ‘3 Views’, Circle Craft Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2009  ‘What The Rains Bring’, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo,

Ontario

2009   Fired Up! 25th anniversary show, Jonathon’s, London, Ontario

2009  ‘Compressed’, North Vancouver Island Potters Guild, touring juried

show, Courtenay, Union Bay, Gallery of BC Ceramics, Vancouver, BC  2008  ‘Thrown and Altered Functional Stoneware’, The Gallery at the New

           Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2008  ‘Urban Nature’, with painter Kari Minchin, Comox Valley Art Gallery,

           Courtenay, BC

2008  ‘Table of Elements’, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, NCECA conference,

           Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

2007  Solo Installation ‘Reflecting Nature:  Reflecting Spirit’, Seymour Art Gallery,

North Vancouver, BC

2007  ‘Potters and Pitchers’, Crafthouse, Craft Assoc. of B.C., Vancouver, B.C.

2007  Featured Artist, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa

2007  ‘On the Table:  100 Years of Functional Ceramics in Canada’, Gardiner

Museum, Toronto, Ontario

2006  ‘New Growth:  Synthesizing Clay’, Clackamas Community College,

NCECA, Portland, Oregon

2006  ‘Functional Ceramics 2006’, Wayne Centre for the Arts, Wooster, Ohio

2005  ‘Vapourware’, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2005  ‘Transformation - The Potters Guild of BC at 50’, Burnaby Art Gallery,

Burnaby, BC

2005  ‘BC Tajimi Exhibition’, BC Potters Guild, Tajimi, Japan

2005  ‘Gas It Up:  Salt, Soda and Slip’, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland

2005  ‘Fire Women’, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC

2004  Proyecto Arte Del Fuego ‘Art of Fire’, Cityscape Community Art Space,

North Vancouver, BC

2004  ‘Pots in the Kitchen’, touring international invitational, Galerie Du Don,

Montsalvy, France and Keramiekcentrum Tiendschuur Tegelen, The

Netherlands

2004  ‘The 2004 Sydney Myers International Ceramics Award’, Shepparton Art

Gallery, Shepparton, Australia

2004  Juror’s Choice Awards, The 2004 International Orton Cone Box Show,

Baldwin City, Kansas

2004  ‘World Tea Party’, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

2004  ‘An Exhibition of Sodium Vapor Fired Wares, Salt and Soda’, Blue Dome

Gallery,’ Silver City, New Mexico

2004  ‘Fired Up! Celebrating 20 Years’, Gallery B.C. Ceramics, Vancouver, BC

2003  ‘21st Century Ceramics’, invited participant, Canzani Centre Gallery,

Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio

2003  ‘Pots in the Kitchen’, international invitational, Rufford Craft Centre,

Ollerton, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England 

2003  ‘Just a Passion for Clay’, 8 Women Potters Present Recent Work,

Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC

2002 ‘Functional Ceramics ’2002’, Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, Ohio

2002  Brook Street Pottery, invitational exhibition, Hay on Wye, Wales

2002 ‘4 Voices’, Gallery 611, Toronto, Ontario

2001 ‘Salt and Fire’, 4 person International invitational exhibition, Chungnam

University in Taejon and To-Art Gallery in Seoul, Korea

2001  ‘Sojourn:  Sketches of Utility’, 1 person show, The Croft, Calgary, Alberta

2000  ‘Below the Salt:  Echoes Across a Century’ International invitational

Exhibition,  University of Derby and Portsmouth Museum, Derby, England

2000  ‘ Gallery 611’ Invitational Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario

1999  ‘Different Stokes - The 1999 International Juried Wood-fire Exhibition’,

Studiolo, Iowa City, Iowa

1999  ‘Contemporary Canadian & Quebec Ceramics’, Hammond Harkins

Galleries, NCECA, Columbus, Ohio

1998  ‘Fired Up!, Stephen Lower Gallery, Victoria, BC 

1998  ‘Off the Wall - Onto the Table’, 3- person show, Ferry Building Public

Gallery, West Vancouver, BC

1997  ‘5th Annual Teapot Exhibit’, invited participant, Craft Alliance, St. Louis,

Missouri

1997  ‘West Invites East to Dinner’, 1 person show, Circle Craft Gallery,

Vancouver, BC

1996  ‘Vessels in Celebration’, juried touring show, Alberta Potters’ Assn., Alberta

1995   ‘Excellence in Craft’, Bronze Award, Circle Craft Market, Vancouver, BC

1994  ‘Jugs’, juried exhibition, Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, BC

1992  ‘Salt-fire Revisited’, 5-person feature, Gallery of B.C. Ceramics,

Vancouver, BC

Publications

2017‘Tips, Tools, & Techniques’, pub. The American Ceramic Society, Westville, Ohio

2017‘Ceramics Monthly Pottery Making Illustrated’, “Stacking Jars”, Jan/Feb Issue

2015‘Ceramics Monthly’ magazine No.2, Vol. 63, article “Movement and

Tranquility:  The Work of Cathi Jefferson”

2012  ‘Best of 500 Ceramics’ pub. Lark Crafts, New York, New York

2009  ‘Ceramics Art & Perception’ magazine article, issue 78, ‘Requiem for a

           Forest’          

2009  Co-editor ‘Fired Up! Contemporary Works in Clay, pub. Fired Up!

Publishing, Victoria, BC

2009  ‘Surface Design for Ceramics’, pub. Lark Books, New York, New York

2008  ‘Fusion’, magazine article, ‘ West Coast Therapy in Thunder Bay’,

           Toronto, Ontario

2007  ‘Arts Alive’, magazine article, ’Reflecting Nature: Reflecting Spirit’, North

Vancouver, BC

2005  ‘The Teapot Book’, pub.  A&C Black, London, England

2004  ‘Making Marks:  Discovering the Ceramic Surface’, Krause Publications

Inc., Iola, Wisconsin

2004  ‘The Complete Potter’, pub.  Quarto Publishing, London, England

2003  ‘500 Cups’, & ‘500 Bowls’, pub.  Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina

2002  ‘Pots in the Kitchen’, pub.  The Crowood Press Ltd., Ramsbury, England

2002  ‘Salt-Glazing’, pub.  A&C Black, London, England

2002  ‘Salt-Glaze Ceramics’, pub. The Crowood Press Ltd, Ramsbury, England

2001  ‘The Ceramic Spectrum’ 2nd  edition, pub.  Krause Publications Inc., Iola,

Wisconsin

2001  ‘Smashing Glazes’, pub.  Guild Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin

2001  ‘Ceramics Monthly’ magazine No.6, Vol. 49, article “Bread, Butter, & Salt”

2001  ‘Throwing Pots’, 2nd edition, pub. A & C Black, London, England

2001  ‘Object Lessons’, pub.  Guild Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin

2000  ‘Functional Pottery’ 2nd edition,  pub. Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin

1999  ‘Ceramics Monthly’ magazine No. 8, Vol. 47, article “International Potters

Festival”

1998  ‘Made of Clay’ pub. jointly ‘98, Potters Guild of BC / Douglas and MacIntyre

1997  ‘Contact Ceramics’ magazine No. 107, article “Reminiscences on Being a

            First-time Kiln Builder”

1996  ‘The Best of Pottery ’ pub. Quarry Books, Rockport, Massachusetts

Collections

2014Watson Arts Centre, permanent collection, Canberra, Australia

2011  Museum of Anthropology, ‘Encoded Megabean’ permanent collection,

          Vancouver, BC

2010  Sanbao Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China

2004  Shepparton Art Gallery, permanent collection, Shepparton, Australia

2002  Aormori City permanent collection, Aormori, Japan

1999  Aberystwyth Art Gallery, permanent collection, Aberystwyth, Wales

1996  Archie Bray Foundation permanent collection, Helena, Montana

1993  Tokoname City permanent collection, Tokoname, Japan

Associations

Co-founder, current Director ‘Clay Hub’ Community Clay Centre, Cowichan Valley

Founding member Cowichan Artisans

South Vancouver Island Potters Guild member

Fired Up! Collective of 11 clay artists established in 1984 (member since 1996)

Circle Craft Cooperative member

Tozan Society director - 4 year term

Craft Association of BC member

Potters Guild of BC member

Co-chair Canadian Clay Collective Triennial Canadian Clay Symposium – 18

      year term

Board member North West Ceramic Foundation – 5 year term

Honorary life-time member Fraser Valley Potter’s Guild –Past President