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In the Kiln Room: Tobias Tomlinson

"In the Kiln Room" is a weekly video series featuring artist talks, studio tours, and demonstrations by Canadian ceramic and glass artists. In this episode, Tobias Tomlinson walks us through his studio spaces and shares insight on the many facets of his multi-media practice. Explaining some of the many techniques he uses in his varied practice as well as many of the spiritual and cultural meanings behind the imagery and motifs used in his works, Tobias shares his personal connections with his pieces and the meanings that they hold. Videographer: Millie Schulz Tobias Tomlinson has been a working potter for nearly 50 years. He received his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 1971, a major in printmaking, and a minor in ceramics. Some of his instructors included Harlan House, Hal Regar, Jack Surs, Marylin Levine, Roy Kiyooka, Santo Mignosa and Léopold Foulem. Tobias also weaves, fuses dichroic glass, produces torch-work beads, and creates sterling jewelry. Tobias discovered several years ago that his great grandmother was a Chickasaw-First Nations woman from the Cherokee Federation. He incorporates the designs of medicinal plants, ceremonial images, as well as figurative work with the symbols of my Nation such as Weaver Womyn, and Weeping Man, the four winged flying serpent, the medicine wheel and other motifs from his Nation. Tobias has always been interested in textiles, the use of natural fibres and plants used for dyes. He has raised sheep, sheared wool, spun, and created woven material from “scratch to finish”. Today, the main fibres used are rayon, silk, linen, cotton, viscose, and rayon chenille. With these, rugs, shawls, and scarves are lovingly made. Colour and texture, forms and function, this is the historical essence of humanity and craft history, as well as ingenuity combined with practicality. Like the myth of the girl, the womyn, and the crone, weaving the threads of Life. Tobias Tomlinson is an artisan who works in a variety of media; fused glass, torch work beads, porcelain, woven textiles, sterling silver, copper forms, and printmaking. --- The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is a long-standing site of excellence and a destination for contemporary art for international tourists and regional citizens. We are Canada's only gallery dedicated to contemporary Canadian works in ceramics, glass, and copper enameling. We host critically-acclaimed exhibitions that challenge ideas and perceptions of the definitions of art, craft and design today. With an emphasis on Canadian artists, our exhibitions also support international and regional artists. Our Gallery Shop is recognized on its own merits as a fine craft gallery, showing the best of Canadian ceramic and glass work. A relevant and dynamic cultural organization, the Gallery provides supportive education programs to people from across the Region. Using exhibitions as a starting point, individuals develop arts vocabulary, arts appreciation and cultivate confidence in their interpretation of contemporary artworks. People who return to the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery come to understand that the Gallery is a space with dynamic exhibitions, ever-changing hands-on programs and multiple opportunities for learning. http://www.theclayandglass.ca