Christine Pedersen

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!

The Bow River in Fish Creek Provincial Park, Calgary, Alberta. Wide, moraine blue waters, with tree-lined banks. Photo taken on Eric Harvie Bridge where I stopped to scoff a bar and catch my breath on #longride training day.

The holotype specimen, Borealopelta markmitchelli (aka the Suncor nodosaur) is pictured in a glass case, and is now back on show in the “Breakthroughs” display at The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. The rear portion of Borealopelta markmitchelli (aka the Suncor nodosaur) is a steel wire-work sculpture by @jeffdeboer.bsky.social, designed to illustrate what the back end of the animal would have looked like. The rear end of the fossil was shovelled out during construction work, before realizing that there was a massive intact fossil. The fossil was featured in depth in National Geographic magazine, the June 2017.

@jeffdeboer.bsky.social welding the steel wire tail section for the nodosaur Borealopelta markmitchelli fossil sculpture. The sculpture was commissioned by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, and it was carefully installed around the fossil. I was so lucky to apprentice with Jeff on this project of a lifetime, learning to weld big metal 🙏

One Becomes Many: a necklace made up of many swirling egg-shaped, linked units, was cast in a traditional bronze alloy of copper and tin, and set with amethysts. It is pictured on a white background. This necklace was inspired growing up in Cornwall amongst all the copper and tin mines, with a childhood spent rock-hunting—finding quartz crystals, and occasional beautiful amethysts and garnets in the gravel spoil created by Cornish china clay (kaolinite) mining. This gravel showed up by the truckload as my grandparents built a new house, and caused me endless grief that I couldn’t sort through it all fast enough before it was buried again. The theme and title of the necklace reference my scientific training, and the gift of replicating molecules. It was such a joy as an adult learner to go back to art school, and unite science and art in so many projects; this is the necklace I always turn to for special occasions--it is bold, and strong, and despite all that metal, it doesn’t feel heavy to wear. Does make me feel like Boudica awaiting her chariot 💪❣️

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 😬

Natural stoneware tea bowl, made by pinching clay. The clay is still raw in this image. About 3.5" tall, with a rounded bowl shape at the base and sides that gently slope in towards the rim. The top has slight interruptions, these arise as natural textures in the clay arrive at the top of the tea bowl, and become an integral part of the structure of the vessel. These details were deliberately not smoothed out from the clay as I worked, so that the clay records both process and my choices, while exerting its own identity and nature into the piece. Also visible in the picture—some surface areas of the raw clay have dried paler. This is due to efflorescence, the result of natural soluble salts in the clay rising to the surface as the clay dries. This soluble material creates a little bonus glassy glaze on the surface, or sometimes a blush on the clay when it is fired.

Fired buff stoneware plates and bowls, with one glazed bowl at the front. Natural Alberta stoneware, with swirling, wave-like brushed black underglaze under a milky matte white glaze. Bowl is the perfect size for soup or oatmeal and fruit.

Love how these functional #stoneware #pinchpot samples turned out--left unglazed so that the audience at my talk could really feel the shapes, and see the textures left behind...right down to the creases made by my skin.

#madeinaskutt #pinchypinchy #textureinclay #ceramics #madebyhand

Seven inches tall, newly made pinched porcelain vessel. Standing on a narrow foot that seems to disappear. The form is a bright sky or cobalt blue that will become even more intense after firing. The surface is deeply textured, due to the unique pinching technique that Christine Pedersen has developed over her last 25 years of pinching clay. This technique means that each piece is always unique--the texture emerges from the clay, as the artist encourages the clay to tell its story.

Pinching process underway: looking down into a half-made blue porcelain vessel, resting gently in the artist's hand. Its' interior is beautifully smooth, though the exterior is intensely textured. Another highly textured blue vessel is in the background waiting for its turn to be worked on.

A couple of blues.
My pinching process gives both of us--me, and the clay--time to develop our stories.

#upsalablue #porcelain #contemporaryporcelain #SIO2 #artiststudio #ceramics #womensart #pinchpots #contemporaryancient #handmade #calgary #slowdown #slowart

"Strong Bonds" sterling silver post earrings, glowing against on a black background. The earrings feature uniquely textured silver circles, made by hammering the metal onto the concrete sidewalk outside the artist's home. The textured silver also looks like the surface of a distant planet; the upper and lower circles are connected by 14 karat gold-filled chain, so that the lower circles will gently move with the wearer.

Alberta Craft Council media release for the MAKERS' DOZEN Earring Edition show: April 19 - June 21, 2025 Reception: Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 2 - 4pm Alberta Craft Gallery SPACE in Marda loop 1721 - 29 Avenue SW, Suite #280, Calgary, AB Street Parking available | Free Everyone welcome The Makers' Dozen collective connects 13 jewellery artists from Southern Alberta, each contributing their unique vision, techniques, and craftsmanship to a shared creative space. Makers' Dozen - Earring Edition highlights not only the stunning final pieces but also the artists themselves and their creative processes. Featuring 65 pairs of earrings, it invites visitors to explore a diversity of approaches, ranging from traditional goldsmithing and intricate beading to experimental metalwork. Makers' Dozen collective: Ashleigh Amber Moore, Barb Temple, Bramble Lee Pryde, Christine Pedersen, Cherry Deacon, Devon Clark, Jennea Frischke, Kari Woo, Melissa Pedersen, Melissa Victor, Sarah Whalen Lunn, Shona Rae, Stephanie Elderfield www.albertacraft.ab.ca Alberta Foundation for the Arts Edmonton Arts Council The City of Edmonton City of Calgary Alberta Government calgary arts development

Come hang with the Maker’s Dozen jewellers at #AlbertaCraftCouncil Calgary gallery: opening reception on April 26th, 2-4 pm, at cSpace, in Marda Loop ✨

"Strong Bonds" -Concrete & Graffiti Series
#makersdozenyyc #handmade #silver #jewelry #jewellery #canadianjewellery #womensart #yyc #artshow

D'oh! Forgot to use #handmadejewelry too!

Pictured: screenshot from the slides for my talk—many handmade pinched ceramic vases, filled with flowers. I'm trying to cram as many pretty flowers in vases onto one slide as possible, just for the joy of them! All photos taken in my yellow dining room as a backdrop.

Lots of bread--I'm carb-loading for strength tomorrow! Gluten-free vegan sourdough batons, and a tray of raisin ginger sticky buns. Also made my honey a wholemeal sourdough, with my GF starter and some strong spring red wheat bread flour--he says it's delicious, tastes like proper Hovis. I am so happy for him, and equally gutted that I can't stuff a big hunk of it into my face!

It’s really tough figuring out what goes in and what to leave out of an artist talk, I mean, I’ve basically got 25 years of homework to review since I was a studio member at North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre. Strap in! 💥😆
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#ceramics #canadianceramics #pinchpots #artisttalk #yyc #yycartist #vase

Grape-fruit sized pouring vessel, with textured surface cause by hand-pinching the speckled stoneware clay. Toasty brown near the base with yellows and grey near the shoulder, yellow ash droplets on grey, and a pale robin's egg blue glaze inside.

Close-up on the shoulder of the pinched stoneware pourer, with flecks of yellowy-brown ash droplets that have deposited onto the clay in the wood-kiln. Clay is toast brown, though yellow with grey carbon-trapping, with a lovely pale blue inside.

🎶Intermission: small wood-fired pourer with a lovely ash-mossy shoulder. First bisque firing of 2025 underway, been a long wait for some days just above zero C. No pics of what went in the kiln—fingers crossed they survive…😅

#ceramics #pottersofbluesky #woodfired #pinchpot #vessel #plainsmanclay

Gorgeous piece! And a great way to get a long form, slinging slabs that long can get rather iffy (especially if you miss the table 🤭)

Thank you, I'm really looking forward to it. Especially all the help cleaning up the mess afterwards 🤭😁