Denis Longchamps, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery

Please join us on Friday, July 16 for our club meeting.

7:15-7:30 Social chat | 7:30 Meeting officially starts

Denis Longchamps, PhD, Executive Director of the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery

The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Pandemic Recovery and the Community

Denis Longchamps is the Executive Director and Chief Curator since August 2018. He was from 2013 to 2018, the Artistic Director and Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Burlington. Longchamps received his PhD in art history in 2009 from Concordia University where he was the administrator of the Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art from 2006 to 2011. He taught art and craft history at Concordia University, York University and at Dawson College. He contributed essays, articles and reviews to magazines and journals such as Espace-Sculpture, Ceramics Monthly, and Ceramics Art and Perception. Curatorial projects include the touring exhibition Naked Craft (a collaboration between Canada & Scotland, 2015-2017), and On Collecting Clay and Glass (CCGG, 2020-2021). He was the publisher and managing editor of Cahiers métiers d’art: Craft Journal(2006-2016). In 2020, Craft Ontario recognized his work in the craft sector with the John and Barbara Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement.