The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery.

The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (CCGG) is a public art gallery located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The CCGG is a national gallery exhibiting Canadian silica artwork, including ceramic, glass and enamel work. Its mandate is to be a museum and gallery, and to educate the public. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 352 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,272 × 1,000 pixels, file size: 350 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 352 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,272 × 1,000 pixels, file size: 350 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener. ... This article is about the Canadian province. ... National Gallery is a common name for a countrys major public art gallery. ... The chemical compound silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is the oxide of silicon, chemical formula SiO2. ... The Mona Lisa Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. ... Ancient Egyptian ceramic art: Louvre Museum. ... This article is about the material. ... In a discussion of art technology, enamel (or vitreous enamel, or porcelain enamel in American English) is the colorful result of fusion of powdered glass to a substrate through the process of firing, usually between 750 and 850 degrees Celsius. ... For other uses, see Museum (disambiguation). ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ...

The CCGG offers classes, tours, lectures and demonstrations, as well as a gift shop showcasing Canadian artists from all over the country. Many of the artists featured in the gift shop are past or present contributors to the exhibitions.

Construction of the gallery began in 1991 and the CCGG opened in June 1993. The building was designed by Vancouver's Patkau Architects, which received a Medal of Excellence for the design under the Governor General's Awards for Architecture program in June 1997. (The building next to the gallery, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, won the same award in 2006.) For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... The Institute facing Waterloo Park The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is located in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (also home to the University of Waterloo). ...

In 2005, CCGG was selected to receive the Carl and Ann Beam archives. They consist of letters, journals, and other materials from Carl Beam, the first Native Canadian to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as a contemporary, rather than an ethnographic, art work. The final exhibition that Beam was directly involved with before his death originated at the CCGG and was the first exhibition to feature work by Beam, his wife Ann, and daughter Anong. Other artists that have exhibited their work at the Gallery include Paul Stankard, Josh Simpson, and famed feminist artist Judy Chicago. Aboriginal people in Canada are Indigenous Peoples recognized in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, sections 25 and 35, respectively, as Indians (First Nations), Métis, and Inuit. ... National Gallery of Canada on Canada Day. ... Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War... Ethnography ( ethnos = people and graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. ...

External links

• CCGG official website

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