Christine Pedersen

--thank you too, much appreciated. I really love seeing process and exploration, and disruption is a most excellent theme, have at 'er!

It'll come, just do the work and feel all the feels, follow the bits that you question, or find joy in. Also I'm jealous you are in an academic program with all the toys to explore process ha ha! Clay offers us such an incredibly rich journey, and we make ourselves as we go 💗

Cheers Amy. I feel like the materials are in service to the content--I could never get into bisque and dunk, it was always about the clay first, and why? I think it can take a while to accept and express our own needs and aesthetics as makers, rather than what might be projected onto ceramics.

I sketch like this too! As long as we know that we mean, right? 🤭😆

Love this bowl, it's totally serene. And begging for soup!

Honoured to have 2 of my Phase Change vessels included in the Shape of Change group show, curated by @do-the-art-thing.bsky.social. Really looking forward to seeing the exhibition, such a neat theme.

#ceramics #pottersofbluesky #contemporaryporcelain #exhibition #calgary #airdrie #alberta #artist

Landscape vessels in experimental mixes of coloured clays, all scrubbed up and ready to glaze. Doesn't matter how many times I do this to myself, it’s still completely nerve-wracking.

#ceramics #pottersofbluesky #clay #texture #stoneware #porcelain #ceramicvessel #landscapeceramics #ceramicartist

Delighted to share that a collection of my ceramic vessels and vases is available from Willock and Sax Gallery in Banff, Alberta, and in their online store.
www.willockandsaxgallery.com/ceramic/chri...
#ceramics #porcelain #handmade #ceramicartist #pottersofbluesky #clayart #functionalware

Lovely meetup on Rotary park #Calgary for International #coffeeoutside day. Thank you @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social for bringing us together and 🍪, and to the wonderful Sought x Found Coffee Roasters for the high octane refuelling 🚴‍♀️☕️

At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

I'll edit pictures later 🤞

You did awesome 🙌 Great route through our neighbourhood--coffee and a park = win!

🥧👀 #cherrypie time--finally! Had to get in quick: pig-birds and fat squirrels have scoffed nearly all the Evan’s cherries in the garden. We have three trees, loaded with fruit, and we got one pie. #Gluten-free almond/oat crust FTW, sorry it’s not scratch and sniff 😋

I will only drink light hoppy beers from a large German drinking vessel, which is why I support #PaleinSteinAction

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

I so want to believe that his assessment is correct, but I truly struggle to do so. Especially after reading this update on the Plastics Treaty
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More to come on Tiktaalik as I prep a project for the @AlbertaCraftCouncil “Craft in Perspective” show
#I❤️tiktaalik

#scienceinart #artinscience #sciencetalk #tiktaalik #canadian #fossil #archeology #aluminium #metalartist #chasingandrepousse #chasingandrepoussé #yycnow #calgaryevents #metalisclay

Shout out for Tiktaalik too—in the transition of animals from water to land—a home-grown Canadian from around 375 million years ago. Fossil from Ellesmere Island in Nunavut Territory, some holotype specimen bones and a great reconstruction model in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta.

I’ll wager many of us are wishing for that this morning as we chug our crushed grains—yep, still doing the porridge—and haul our skeletons into our trainers, or out on our bikes, inspired to see just how much we can endure 💗💪☄️

--wildly engaged crowds who want their neurones lit up, and go home to dream about the latest news from Göbekli Tepe, and likely a bit on mass extinction events too, of all kinds. This is sensual history, no more so than imagining the adaptations for running in the skeleton of an 8-year old...

🙏Thank you @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for a brilliant presentation last night in Calgary. So great to see the auditorium crammed, and with all ages—this is the kind of night out we are desperate for. It was the same for Brian Cox/Robin Ince’s TWO visits to Calgary (hint!)

Congrats!!!! 🙌

We did so much shopping on our old tourers--could get a full Costco shop in my rear panniers!

Unbelievably we scored front row seats--I’ll be plundering my hoard and wearing “One Becomes Many”, a Cornwall-inspired, traditional bronze and amethyst necklace. Made here in Calgary, though sadly I don’t know where the tin originated…
#artinscience #scienceinart #palaeontology #bronze #necklace

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social -so stoked for your talk on Thursday eve in Calgary 🥳. If you haven’t got your day-trips planned, I recommend a really long day at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology; and running/biking through Fish Creek Park—birds are in full song, and the pelicans are back!

Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks

Tracking down the Cassiterides - the ancient Tin Islands: A British-led group of archaeologists have analysed the composition of bronze artefacts from across Europe, tracing the tin in these objects dating to more than 3000 years ago to Cornwall and Devon...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Absolutely. Apparently CoC is seeking engagement info (engage.calgary.ca/pathwaybikeway), so for starters I submitted an email about the lack of connectivity / City promoting motornormativity to access the shiny new Haskayne Pk (plus the related hugely unsafe diversion of TCT users onto the 1A).

You're absolutely right; but although research shows people/voters support Active Transportation, it seems like candidates think it's kryptonite to state it as a community-focused objective. So how to help them get on board?

Druh--we/Active Transportation need you back! 1996 to approx. 2011 we had the Calgary Injury Prevention Coalition (I was the coordinator) with reps from health, emergency services, AMA, and City all working together. We have lost data-led, inter-agency communication, planning, and IP commitment.

We barely have leaf buds on the lilacs here--still scared of getting snowed on 😬