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Dr Susan Surette

Postdoctoral fellow
NSCAD University
Participates in 2 items
Dr. Susan Surette (PhD Art History, Concordia University 2014) researches postwar architectural ceramic murals in Canada and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NSCAD University investigating the implications of the concept of the gift in architectural ceramics. Her research emerges from questions based upon her own experiences as a passionate professional maker - ceramics (1987-present) and textiles (1976-1986). She has published journal articles, catalogue essays and book chapters and delivered conference papers on Canadian ceramics and crafts. She is on the editorial board of Cahiers métiers d'art - Craft Journal (Montreal), and co-edited (with Dr. Elaine Cheasley Paterson) Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts (Bloomsbury, June 2015). Dr. Surette has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in ceramic and textile histories and the decorative arts, and her own ceramic work is found in North American public, corporate, and private collections.

Sessions in which Dr Susan Surette participates

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritageArts
Changes in heritageNew manifestations of heritageNotions of heritage

Russell Staiff argues that heritage discourse and practice are tightly interwoven with the theoretical legacy of the visual arts, specifically citing the shared concerns of formalism, iconography, aesthetics and modernism (“Heritage and the Visual Arts” 2015). Yet craft, as a field of knowledge, is often subsumed under the visual arts, when in fact its materialities, functionality, concerns about skill and preoccupation with the local (whether understood as geographically or politically const...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00 - 12:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes
Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritageArtsPublic event

Architectural historian John R. Stubbs suggests that architectural conservation is concerned with historic buildings and their sites as well as their associated accoutrements, such as furnishings and fittings. But what happens if the building itself is not seen as “historic” or even worthy of a heritage designation, much less conservation, while its site and furnishings are significant in aesthetic, cultural or social terms; in other words what happens when a building’s decorative arts tru...