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The Ontario Arts Council awarded $15,000 in funding through the Indigenous Arts Projects in support of Ace’s upcoming project Zhaabwaabndaan (to see through). Ace worked with artist D’Andrea Bowie for a two-week one-on-one intensive residency from June 30 to July 14, 2024 to learn the process of working with clay and glass to produce new works and explore the potential of integrating both materials with his signature electronic component treatments.
Zhaabwaabndaan builds upon a residency that Ace undertook in 2018 with master potter David Migwans in M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island. Under David’s tutelage, Ace gathered natural clay, made coiled pottery and successfully integrated electronic components and glass beads into vitrified clay vessels.
Artist D’Andrea Bowie has a large-scale indoor sculpture and ceramic studio in Stouffville, Ontario where she works as a full-time professional artist. D’Andrea has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts from York University where she was awarded a SSHRC Research Scholarship, CGS Master’s Scholarship and the Susan Crocker and John Hunkin Award and completed her BFA at OCADU in Sculpture & Installation in 2017. In 2023, D’Andrea completed a glass-casting course at the prestigious Penland School of Craft, a national craft education centre located in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. In May 2024, D’Andrea undertook a two-week intensive course at the Pilchuck Glass School located on the ceded territories of the Treaty of Point Elliott Tribes, which includes the Duwamish, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Lummi, Skagit, and Swinomish Tribes, in Stanwood, Washington, USA.
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario will feature Ace’s ceramic and glass works in a confirmed upcoming solo exhibition.
The artist grateful acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council, D’Andrea Bowie, and the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (Waterloo).
Bowie | Belmore Studios, Stouffville, Ontario. 
D'Andrea Bowie, Artist 
Residency. Photo Courtesy of D'Andrea Bowie. 
Pate de verre and cast glass testing. 
Terra sigillata vessels before raku and glazing. 
Seven Grandfathers. Plaster molds from carved wax figures, beads for glass casting, clay vessel. 
Preparing to plaster mold wax figures. 
Plaster mold of wax figures in preparation for steam. 
Steam tenting plaster molds to melt wax figures from mold. 
Building black clay wall mount plaque for mounting over red circuit-board. 
Hand-building black clay serpent vessel. 
Outdoor Raku Kiln 
Removing vessel after raku firing. 
Night firing Raku Vessels. 
Power Vessel. White clay, stone buffed and raku fired. 
Serpent Vessel. White clay, stone buffed and raku fired. Photo by Barry Ace 
Serpent Vessel. White clay, stone buffed and raku fired. Detail. Photo courtesy of D'Andrea Bowie. 
Serpent Vessel. White clay, stone buffed and raku fired. Detail. Photo courtesy of D'Andrea Bowie. 
Serpent Vessel. White clay, stone buffed and raku fired. Detail. Photo courtesy of D'Andrea Bowie. 
Large Vessel. Raku fired terra sigillata white clay and circuit-board. Photo courtesy of D'Andrea Bowie. 
Small Glazed Vessel and circuit-board. 