Debra Sloan

Craft Council of British Columbia

Debra Sloan attended the Vancouver School of Art and Emily Carr College of Art and Design, graduating with honours in ceramics and sculpture in 1982. She attained her BFA from ECUAD in 2005. She has exhibited, taught, adjudicated and served on all the regional craft Boards, and she has served on the NWCF Board since 2008. Currently, she is collecting materials for an archive of BC ceramics, including a registry of BC maker’s marks. She has published in Ceramics Art and Perception, Technical, Fusion, Studio Ceramics Canada, and Ceramics Now. Represented by MEC Gallery at SOFA, Chicago, her work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, and it appears in six LARK 500 books. Debra was the 2015 Honouree for the Mayor’s ARTS Award [Vancouver] for Craft and Design. She presents at symposiums and attends international residencies, most recently, CRETA, Rome. Working mainly as a figurative artist, she was the first sculptor to have ventured in the sculptor/commentary direction at the Leach Pottery in its 95-year history.