Chris Snedden
Chris
Snedden has
been working in clay for 25 years in the London area. After high school he attended
Bealart and then Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology – Ceramics
and Glass where he received the Second Year Scholarship and the Alumni Award
for Academic Achievement and Contribution to the Quality of Student Life. Since
then he has worked in many facets of the pottery business including building
electric kilns, slip casting piecework, designing, mould making, and teaching
continuing education classes for the University of Western Ontario, Fanshaw
College, the London PUC, and the London Potters Guild. Chris’s work has
been shown at festivals, galleries and museums across Ontario and is collected
across North America. Over the last few years he has been invited to present
workshops on the slip transfer technique for guilds all over Ontario, and was
most recently chosen by Fusion, the Ontario Clay and Glass Association as “Artist
of the Month” for October 2007. Chris continues to teach workshops and
develop his award winning work. To find out more, visit his website at www.chrissnedden.com.