Debra Sloan

May 2024

Debra engaged in a self-directed apprenticeship 1973 - 1979, attended the Vancouver School of Art 1979- 1982, and later attained her BFA from ECUAD in 2005. Maker, teacher, adjudicator, presenter, parent, volunteer, and currently president of the North-West Ceramics Foundation. Her work is exhibited, regionally, nationally, and internationally. She has attended international residencies in Hungary, Rome, Japan, and the UK.

Debra is very interested in the inherent narrative capacity of clay and in 2005 she started to write (non-fiction) about BC ceramic history, the clay artists, and their social, aesthetic, and historic contributions. For this residency she will be working on several biographies, and hopefully engaging with locally found materials - Eastend and region is famous for its clays - and she is also interested in the Indigenous use of local clays in Saskatchewan, in contrast to BC, where only wood was mastered for function and as a means of expression. She is also looking forward to experiencing the prairies! Please check out Debra’s website here : www.debrasloan.com